Wysing Day 1

Today I wanted to tell you about the first day of training at Wysing Arts Centre. I first discovered Wysing Arts Centre Young Artists Programme a couple of months before the programme was due to start, I discovered it when I was looking for something art related that I could go out and do. I was looking for something to improve my arts skills and advance me in a drawing sense, its fair to say that Wysing was the most amazing opportunity to come across. I went along to a day a few weeks ago at Wysing Arts Centre and got to meet Kirsten Bicknell. Kirsten is the course director and me and the other young artists will work closely with her in developing our portfolios over the course of the programme and helping us with our gold arts award. At the start of the programme we get to work with a variety of artists over a period of three days to introduce us to different art forms. I am now going to tell you all about the three days.

Day 1

The first day at Wysing, really exciting. After the introductions we were introduced to the artist we would be working with that day, Caroline Wright. We started off with splitting into pairs and doing a couple of little exercises. These included one person holding the top of a pencil and the other person holding the bottom and drawing something together. This resulted in several laughs as something that was supposed to look like a car, ended up looking like a scribble of lead on paper. 

We then went on to all eight of us kneeling on the floor around a large piece of paper. We all chose our desired drawing tool and Caroline played us roughly a minute of a piece of music. In that minute we had to draw on the paper "doodles" which were influenced by the music playing. In total we heard 10 pieces of music ranging from pop to classical. We ended up with a really amazing, artistic piece of art which had each of our interpretations of the music on.

Cake drawing

Then it was time for a lunch break. After lunch, we all went into the exhibition space at the arts centre, which at the time wasn't being used. We got into pairs and spent the afternoon building a sculpture out of any materials available. Me and my partner decided to make the inspiration of our sculpture a piece of art in the grounds of Wysing. A beehive skyscraper. So we set to work making our interpretation of the skyscraper beehive. We ended up creating a strange but in certain ways artistic sculpture. 

When we had all finished our sculptures, we all talked about them and the inspiration behind them. Me and my partner decided to put a statement on the front of our sculpture. "Its art if it can't be explained" This comment sparked quite a debate. What are your thoughts, do you agree with this statement? If you have and opinion, feel free to leave a comment.

So that was my first experience day at Wysing, eventful, fantastic and truly brilliant. Bring on day 2

Meghan