The new, updated kids’ activities on the Portraits and Portraiture site we produced for the Museum Network finally launched recently. A heady mix of hand-drawn stuff by me, slick Flash work by Hugh Williams of DUNK and a range of amazing portraits by Rembrandt, Hals and Velázquez, to name but three, make this a winning formula [...]

I was recently asked to help the Interpretation and Information teams at Tate Britain present a persuasive case for a greatly enhanced information and interpretation provision for visitors. This ‘mindmap,’ if that’s the right term for it, aims to illustrate the many ways in which a visitor might engage with an artwork. Using a Henry [...]

Much of the past few weeks have been spent preparing to become a Creative Practitioner in schools, as part of the Creative Partnerships Programme run here in Kent by Future Creative. Apart from having completely exhausted the words ‘creative’ and ‘creativity,’ it’s been a really interesting and worthwhile experience so far, as much for the opportunity [...]

Since the New Year myself, Hugh ‘DUNK‘ Williams and Chris Wilson have been working on a re-vamped version of the Portraits and Portraiture children’s activities we originally produced back in 2005. Not quite finished yet, but we’re really happy with the way it’s looking. We’ve had to find a balance between a cartoony look and the fine detail of [...]

My visit to MUDAM in Luxembourg was really fantastic… a special thanks to Annick and Valérie for making me so welcome. Here are the results of my stay, two sprawling maps of MUDAM’s relationships, connections, location and activities. Obviously I couldn’t get everything in, but I hope it gives a sense of the vibrant, imaginative and [...]

This is old news really I suppose, but I just happened to notice it’s exactly a year since I was involved in the planning and design of The Great Tate Mod Blog, an online repository of visuals, ideas and discussions which has, in theory at least, been feeding directly into the considerations and deliberations of [...]

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 [...]

I’ll be working with my friends at the very exciting new Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg – or MUDAM for short – in November. I’ve been asked make a creative contribution to their Sponsor’s Night.

I’m pleased to say I’ll be contributing to this year’s Visual Dialogues programme at Tate Britain. Run annually in partnership with regional collections, Visual Dialogues allows and encourages young people aged between 15-18 to make dynamic interventions into gallery spaces, creating imaginative tools for interpretation and audience engagement. For 2008’s project, Tate Britain is working in [...]

Well, the end of last week saw a great couple of days at Tate Modern working on Audiotours to iPhones, a workshop and conference for the museums and galleries community. Thursday’s session was a very productive workshop involving around 25 people working at the busy and fast-changing intersection of museum interpretation and mobile technologies. 
I was [...]