Creative Consultants
The Creative Consultants are a dynamic group of young people aged between 16-20 with a wide variety of interests.
They meet every month at the gallery and work on a variety of projects. They explore the exhibitions and collections and help to interpret art works for a young audience. This can be through events, trails, or activities within the exhibitions and collections galleries.
Their latest project, Visual Dialogues, challenged the young people to develop and interpretation tool for the gallery. The project was funded by the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and was a partnership programmed managed by the Tate Gallery in London. The project was about creating a partnership between art works in national and regional collections.
Over 18 months the young people did a variety of workshops around two pieces in the Tate Gallery’s collection: Jacob Epstein’s: ‘Rock Drill’ and Tracey Emin’s quilt ‘Hate and Power can be a Terrible Thing’. The creative consultants borrowed these two art works from the Tate Gallery and were displayed here at Manchester Art Gallery between October 2005 – January 2006.
They designed and developed an ‘Art Navigation System’ an interactive device which invited gallery visitors to uncover the meaning between the two art works.
Join Creative Consultants
We are just about to enter phase two of the Visual Dialogues project, if you are aged between 15-18 years and would like to know more about understanding and talking about art, then get in touch.
Contact us or phone
Meg Lewis-Crosby
Curator : Life Long Learning
0161 235 8855
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