Explore the artwork in the gallery and...
- Look for really interesting relationships between the Cooper Gallery collection piece and the new Hen piece. Choose a pairing. Can you discover a story/ poem in the space between?
- Landscape - timelessness - find a landscape depicted and put a character of your own in this setting. Use the juxtaposition to explore time - or whatever you like.
- Find a piece that tells you a story - write the ending first.
- Find a piece of jewellery you can link with a character in your head. Use a detailed description of the piece as part of a story/ poem. Present? Lost? Stolen? Found? etc.
- Find an element of magic you could explore.
- Choose an artefact and give it a strange / original purpose. Put it into a poem or story or...
- If one (or more) of these sparks something for you, see if you can find what one of these artists explored around it, then write...
veiled, broken china, window-sill
flower-girl, sewing-box, thorn tree
frame, coast, Green Man
vessel, memory, 'Royal, Courtier, Bishop...'
Activity by A. Hamblen.©
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I really enjoyed this activity and really benefitted from the feedback session. There were only a few of us which meant we had a useful discussion about poetry and what constitutes good poetry.
I originally started out with this inspired by Gillian Tyler's artwork called the windowsill. (www.gilliantyler.co.uk):
Rusty nail
curling round
a broken butterfly.
A purple piece, china men
a scroll
common willow
precious pieces
laid across the
windowsill.
Crackled glaze
marks tiny squares
fragments framed
by sea-softened corners
hint at lives
lived long
now gone.
Obviously a raw piece. Some feedback I got was- don't put in lists. So I went back and now it looks like this:
The Windowsill.
Crackled glaze
marks
tiny squares
fragments framed
by sea-softened
corners
hint at lives
lived long
now gone.
Precious pieces laid
across the windowsill.©
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