Centre for Sport, Leisure and Tourism Research - University of ExeterResearch Showcase Event - June 8th 2011XFi Building, University of Exeter, Streatham Campus

Experiences and Engagement: An Investigation of Young Persons’ Visits

to ARTIST ROOMS on Tour

Stephen Vainker

Artist Rooms on tour 2008-

• Art collection donated to the nation by art dealer and collector Anthony d’Offay.

• The art was purchased for the nation with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund; the Department for Culture, Media and Sport; the Scottish Government. The Art Fund contribute to touring costs.

• Owned and administered jointly by Tate and National Galleries of Scotland.

• Each artist’s work forms a ‘room’ that tours around the UK independently. E.g Andy Warhol in Edinburgh, Wolverhampton, Southampton, Walsall, Perth,

London and Bexhill-on-Sea. • “The most important thing that has happened in the art world in this

country in my lifetime.” Richard Dorment, Telegraph.

Environment

Alex Katz, 1997 3 PM, November

Llandudno, Stromness, Edinburgh

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Pop Art and its legacy

Jeff Koons, 1988. Winter Bears

London, Edinburgh

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Portraits

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Robert Mapplethorpe, 1986. Andy Warhol

Inverness, Sheffield, Eastbourne

Text and language

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Ed Ruscha, 1976. Artists Who Make “Pieces”

Highlands, Wolverhampton, Blackwell, London

Research

• A particular aim of the tour is to engage young people (aged 13-25)

• The research will look ‘in depth’ at young people’s experience of AR by conducting qualitative research:– Trying to ‘map’ people’s experience rather than measure– Spending a year embedded within a small number of AR galleries (5-6)– Interviewing young people, including school and youth groups

• AR as network

– AR involves the collaboration of Tate and NGS – This project based in Tate Research – Resources shared between galleries around the country

• Why do we think that a young person’s experience of this picture is important?

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Project so far: untangling issues

Consensus Dissensus

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consensus dissensus

Tension within gallery experience

End Credits

• Research presented here was conducted during an ESRC Studentship under its Capacity Building Clusters Award (RES-187-24-0002) in partnership with Tate and National Galleries of Scotland.

• For more information about this project and the work of the Centre for Sport, Leisure and Tourism research, see www.ex.ac.uk/slt.

• Stephen Vainker, srv202@ex.ac.uk, 07792299494.