The Travelling Art Gallery School Trip
On Thursday
the 24th of September S1 – S3 and Molly, (because she is doing National
5 in Art) went to Kirkwall for an art trip to visit the traveling gallery,
which was at the Picky Centre. The bus included art from Scottish artists who
had been nominated for the Turner Prize. It travels around Scotland for several
months. The exhibition was called “Eyes
on the Prize”. The bus is owned and
managed by the Scottish Arts Council.
We took the
boat with Mrs Rose and Miss Deavin, when we arrived we walked to the Library to
meet our art teacher, Mrs Brown. It was a lovely day for a school trip.
Then we
walked to the Picky Centre to eat lunch then went to the gallery which was parked
by the Picky Centre. On the outside of the bus was a big picture by the artist
Mike Inglis.
There was
lots of amazing art inside and it was very interesting.
Charlie – My
favourites were the Metal Box (Blinded By The Light) by Jim Lambie and Spiral by
Douglas Gordon. I like the first one because I like the bright colours and the
other one because it’s different to art I’ve seen before.
Sonya – My
favourites was the Metal Box (Blinded By The Light) by Jim Lambie, Things I
associate with you by Ciara Phillips and Bone by David Shrigley. I like the
first one because I like the colours and the way he has folded it, also the
materials he used. I like the second one because of the different textures. I
like the bone because he made it for a joke, it’s not serious and he’s left his
hand print where he was holding it.
The gallery
guide said that they will attempt to come over to Stronsay when they are on their
next tour around Scotland, which would be fantastic for our community.
