Creative connections year 2
Interesting exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery which invites young people and contemporary artists to respond to pictures in the collection. This year it looked at portraits and biographies of people who had connections to Ealing. It was really interesting to see brought together people from a specific area who you might not associate with each other. Of course it covered the fact that the Ealign Studios were there but it also included Sir John Soane who built a house there, Angus McBean, the inventor of mauve, Peter Crouch who lived in the area for the age of four and Freddie Mercury who studied there. The students and the artists, Eelyn Lee produced a video in response to what they had learnt. I loved the creativity sequence where the students acted some of the characters in a dark space but the characters didn’t interact with each other. Review Guardian