CREATIVITY AND ART – BEYOND THE OBVIOUS
Associate Professor Peter Shand (Fine Arts, National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries) offered students in the third “The Creative Process” lecture some extraordinary examples of the process of ‘creating’ art. His lecture went beyond the ‘production of an artefact’ model to consider the interrelated contexts – social, historical, personal – in which art is made, displayed and received.
Peter Shand discussed how art effectively disrupts established ways of looking at the world, and how all art requires the active engagement of the audience / viewer. The engagingly visual lecture was titled “Of Daemons and Desmonology: Creative Thinking, Art and Design”, and included exploration of works by artists like Martin Creed, Nuala Gordon, Kazuo Shiraga, and fashion couture designer Alexander McQueen.
Following the lecture, students took a field trip to Auckland Art Gallery: Toi o Tamaki, to engage with the works on display and explore their own responses to the artists’ endeavours.
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