Pinter Denzil Forrester
As a brief
postscript to my last post I organised a trip to Nottingham Contemporary for my
students to see ‘Itchin and Scratchin’ and they loved the exhibition too. One
can never tell how these visits will go (the Jasper Johns exhibition at the RA
a couple of years ago was a complete disaster for instance), but they were so
engaged with Denzil’s work, the themes, the techniques, the dazzling colour and
kaleidoscopic compositions, it was really heartening. I haven’t had such an
excited response to an exhibition by students ever now I think about it.
In the
study room lots of the students were drawing each other across the table
inspired by Denzil’s drawings and a video of him talking about his experience
of drawing in nightclubs. Such a rich learning experience for them.
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