In June, after a lot of work, my students were finally able to see their work
installed in a chair-themed exhibition at the Heritage Museum in Shatin.
The work had begun way back in October 2013 within the
module ‘History of Visual Arts’ when the students formed groups and began
formulating the creation of a ‘sit-able object’ that would fulfill the project
requirements and also, later, perhaps become part of the planned exhibition.
After the project came to an end and was assessed, we had 10
‘sit-able objects’ that could potentially go forward to be included in the
show. However, as the next phase of the work needed to be completed in
everyone’s spare time, there was a ‘natural selection’ and within a short
period of time we were left with 3 groups of students still keen on refining
their work.
The exhibition staff of the museum were in constant contact
and came to our campus to help critique the work.
Eventually the time came for the work to be transported to
the museum and installed in preparation for the opening of the exhibition and
on the opening night many invited guests arrived for the speeches and the
ceremony to begin the show.
This had been a learning experience for my students. Working
in their spare time and trying to assimilate their ideas, my advice and the
advice from the museum staff had been difficult for them but now they could see
their work fully resolved and presented so well in the museum I could see they
were very proud of their work, I was very proud of them.
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