19 May 2021
Year 11 VA Students have been busy!! They have been working on the Kaldor Future Curators Project.
Future Curators is an exciting new online creative learning program, giving students across NSW the chance to connect with experienced curators and to activate the Kaldor Public Art Projects archive.
Over 9 weeks students are led on an in-depth exploration of the archive, uncovering new stories and themes from the organisation’s rich 51-year history, as they create their own collaborative online exhibitions.
The curators have each been commissioned to develop “mini” online exhibitions for a student audience, along with curatorial essays, drawing on Kaldor Public Art Projects’ digital archive to offer bold new interpretations, provocations and possibilities for the future.
Dulwich High School of Visual Arts & Design was one of seven schools invited to participate.
Ellie, James and Priya worked as a team, exploring all the Kaldor Projects (47 artist projects) and from this creating a theme of exploration for an online exhibition. They had access to all the Kaldor archival files, many with insightful and interesting correspondence between John Kaldor and the various artists, all their plans, proposed obstacles for the making process etc.
The students have undertaken the work for this project in their own time and have impressively demonstrated organisational skills, creative and critical thinking and collaboration.
The Education director at Kaldor Projects responded to their final submission “……..congratulations on an excellent project. You (Priya), Ellie and James have obviously put a great deal of time, energy and thought into this project, and the results are fantastic. You have clearly done the hard work of delving deep into the archives and have unearthed some really intriguing items. You have woven them into a coherent exhibition and successfully articulated your concepts.
I agree with Micheal. (the mentor curator) This is very strong work!