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Russell Hart: Interpretation of sound as an image

Russell Hart: Interpretation of Sound as an Image.

Russell worked with the children to consider sound visually. Through his workshop they dicussed improvisation, synesthesia and exploring and creating a graphic score/notation as an alternative to standard written music. They worked directly on to the surface of vinyl records which Russell had previously painted white. The children drew in response to musical compositions by Aphex Twin and Miles Davis. He invited them to listen closely while drawing and consider the concept of music as a colour or a series of colours. There was a strong aesthetic and poetic quality to working with sound and colour in this way and the children responded becoming quietly engaged in drawing whilst listening.

Stephen Brandes: Humour and Pictorial Language in Art.

Stephen’s workshop the children looked at examples of work by artists such as John Stezaker, Hannah Hoch, John Heartfield and Peter Blake. He introduced collage as an artform with a history linked to the invention of photography and how it came to be used as political satire. They looked at how album covers communicate visually with a special emphasis on collage. Stephen encouraged the children to engage with humour and the absurd in the creation of their own collages. The resulting works were energetic and sometimes laugh-out-loud funny.

Play the Record,
Ballinasloe Library, County Galway,
November 2014

For this concise programme for TULCA Contemporary Visual Art Festival in Galway the two artists Stephen Brandes and Russell Hart were invited to collaborate in the devising of workshops for 5th class children from two schools. The resulting workshops involved the artists both using secondhand vinyl records as art material - in Stephen's workshop the children explored pictorial language and humour through collage and in Russell's sound as image through drawing. On the day of the event all children were given a second-hand record with sleeve at the outset.

In partnership with Galway County Libraries.

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* Mobile Art School (2011-2014) was an artists-schools initiative whose workshop and artist-residency programmes sought to simultaneously devise a path between contemporary artists and the educational system, and to support creative modes of learning. Mobile Art School was co-directed and curated with Jennie Guy.