CELIA BURBUSH
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How a painting speaks

Drawing from latest ideas within science, history, philosophy and education, this is a lecture/workshop experience that I am taking to galleries and museums across the country.

Over the course of a day, we explore some of the trickier questions which tend to get in the way of our ability to connect with an artwork. By revealing these aspects, we start to see artworks, particularly those we may once have ignored, in a fresh light. 

I encourage practical arts-based exercises, so that the museum visitor gets an experiential understanding of the ideas being discussed. It is widely accepted that the arts are very effective at aiding learning and developing self-awareness. Where a straightforward lecture/discussion format might be perfectly adequate, the added physical immersion in a medium promotes unexpected and more personal insights into a subject and reveals new connections between subjects. 

By the end of the workshop, hopefully, participants will be more aware of what they bring to a painting (their past, their present) and how a painting can speak to them. They might even be interested in discussing the following:


What art should be being made?
How should it be exhibited and sold?

 
Bibliography
 
The Artful Mind – edited by Mark Turner ISBN 0-19-530636-8
 
Mirror of the World -Julian Bell ISBN 978-0-500-23837-0
 
Art as Therapy – Alain de Botton ISBN 978-0-7148-7278-0
 
Selected Essays – John Berger Edited by Geoff Dyer ISBN 978-0-7475-5419-6
 
Learning to look at Paintings – Mary Acton ISBN 0-415-14890-1
 
Arts-based Research Practice -Patricia Leavy ISBN 978-1-4625-1332-1



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  • Home
  • Studio artworks
    • MFA Degree Show 2022
    • Journey Portraits 2022
    • Light trails 2021
    • In ore 2018
    • Elementals 2018
    • BBC commission 2018
    • Remembering Macabea 2017
    • Fairy Glen 2016
    • Grillpan 2012
    • Intuitive ink drawings 2009
    • Film Archive
  • Socially-engaged practice
    • In Open Spaces 2021
    • Lockdown portraits 2020
    • New Arts North 2008-2018
    • These Four Walls 2017
    • Home is where the heart is 2017
    • Dreaming of home 2016
    • Talking Tales 2015
  • News
  • CV
    • Bio
    • Exhibitions
    • Experience
    • Reviews
    • MFA sem 2 >
      • following the light
      • paintings journey
      • collaborations
    • MFA >
      • Crit Feb 21
      • Current influences
      • Reading
      • Experiments
      • The Resource
      • Feeding the Aesthetic
      • The Future
      • Cultural space
      • oil sketches