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 [...]

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 [...]

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’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 [...]

Archive Adventures, a ground-breaking online resource for schools which I’ve been working on with DUNK for the Whitechapel Gallery, was launched at Westminster recently by Minister of State for Culture, Tourism and the Creative Industries, Margaret Hodge.
The website, which has been used in conjunction with a series of workshops in East London schools, opens up [...]

Well, a memorable first weekend for the Triennial is almost over, and it’s been very pleasing indeed to see so many people listening to the audio guide on their iPods or borrowing an mp3 payer from the Visitors’ Centre. Feedback so far has been great. Here’s a couple of tracks from the guide to give [...]

With the opening of the Folkestone Triennial now just a week away, I’m happy to report the completion of both an illustrated Young People’s Guide and Audio Guide, written and produced by me! These form two parts of an interpretation hat-trick for the Triennial, with an online Photo Map also on the way later this [...]

I will be producing a Young People’s Guide and an Audio Guide for this summer’s inaugural Folkestone Triennial. Sculpture, sound-work, photography, film and performance pieces by 23 internationally renowned artists will be experienced across the seaside town the Giant Thumb calls home from June 14th.
Curator Andrea Schlieker says: “It’s a tribute to Folkestone’s truly inspirational [...]