Frame of Reference

Had a good day last Thursday at Tate Britain, chipping in with my take on gallery interpretation for the Visual Dialogues Young People’s Programme. Eventually, the participants (A and AS level students from London, Manchester, Birmingham, Sheffield and Newcastle) will be developing their own forms of interpretation for the gallery. But as a way of showing the mass of ideas, facts, associations, people and places that surround both the looking at and making of any artwork, I drew a few that sprang to mind around Peter Blake’s painting The Meeting or Have a Nice Day, Mr Hockney (1981). I think people understood what I was getting at… obviously there are hundreds of things you could map around any artwork or object, and I’d love the opportunity to push this idea a bit further at some point if any museums or galleries are reading this!