I was visiting in Los Angeles where I had an exhibition and was on an artist residency so at 3.30 am from a distance I connected in with the class in St Colmans. The children were so excited about the novelty of this and had many interesting questions to ask me about Los Angeles and what it was like, what people ate, what fuel they used etc the questions were relating to their school theme ‘What a Waste’. I had researched artists from LA who worked with recycled materials and I showed the children some images of artworks that I had seen in galleries and museums there. We focused on installation art and talked about the experience of each art work.
I try to relate the sessions to what Im up to or thinking about at the time, so we also talked about artists residencies and embodied knowledge which was the conference and exhibition I was part of there. I think the ‘studio check’ is really useful for me and the questions from the children are always interesting and leads to what they are interested in exploring further.