ARTIST’S STRATEGIES AS INSPIRATION

Artist’s strategies are inspiration to let children create in a creative and artistic way. It’s about the process, not the result. It concerns the interaction hands/body-material-head (in no particular order).

Artists are experts in the imagination. They have trained themselves to look differently and to work, act and speak in a unique way. They have sometimes taught themselves special habits.

Everything can be material for artists. By creating they relate in one way or another to themselves, others and the world. When presenting an artwork others, children, can interact with it. The great thing about contemporary art is that it comes from the world we live in and we can collaborate with the artist.

By meeting artists in their studio, talking about their way of working and especially by working with them, you can discover a lot of special things.

A very intensive and inspiring collaboration is to give them a workplace/studio in a museum or school.

An example of an artist strategy:

Hillegon Brunt has the habit of making a drawing in a sketchbook every evening. She always starts intuitively with one line.

Leafing through one of the many sketchbooks shows a diversity of drawing.

Three different starting lines drawn by her are printed in the same format as the sketchbook. The fineliner she also uses is the drawing material.

In another room the children present their own drawing. The infinite diversity of drawings that arise is an inexhaustible source of inspiration.