Opal Films, collaboration with PINC college and York Art Gallery.
Drawing as Stimming Objects seek to connect learning and engagement approaches with curtatorial approaches, implementing the experiential approach that learning projects in gallerys can offer. This work is a development of the initial research undertaken with British Art Network and Pyramid of Arts exploring stimming in the gallery context, where neurodivergent and learning disabled members prototyped how hand-held mobile objects that encouraged tactility might encourage stimming as a form of interpretation, exploring works from the collection at New Art Gallery, Walsall. The objects suggest that learning through the body might give us new insights into how we read paintings, particularly as the artists own body creates the work and stimming might bring us closer to this.
Below is an image from York Art Gallery National Treasures exhibition 'Monet In York 'The Water-Lily Pond'. (by a Hiroshige work) demonstrating how the Drawing as Stimming Objects were displayed by curators in the exhibition with a small hand symbol indicating the stimming object could be handled, amd many visitors did!
Below that is a short film by Opal Films for York Art Gallery of the Drawing as Stimming objects made with Pinc College to support the National Treasures exhibition 'Monet In York 'The Water-Lily Pond'. Sam developed workshops to explore sensory engagement with paintings from York Art Gallery collection. Young neurodivergent people from Pinc College selected works to explore and created great ideas for objects that might encourage stimming. Thank you to students from Pinc College, and Loren Turton and Rosie Stuart