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Hi, I enjoy lots of areas of the arts, particularly photography and dance.
I go to a lot of art and photography exhibitions and I like the small intimate ones the most.
Today, I’m at Tate Modern in central London asking people about the arts.
What areas of the arts do you enjoy?
I particularly like painting, sculpture and dance.
Well, I very much enjoy theatre and reading and when I get the opportunity to go and see some pictures.
I really enjoy photography, I studied it at college.
I enjoy all sorts of art, at the moment I’m doing a master of arts in contemporary art.
Particularly, I like literature, I like books, but I enjoy most areas, music too.
I like drawing actually, sketches of people’s faces,
I love that and sculpture, anything in wood, and in stone I enjoy that
I’m an illustration student so I enjoy contemporary graphic art and illustration and drawing
All kinds, I mean I’m a graphic designer by profession but visual arts all kinds of visual arts also illustration.
Websites, art is everywhere now it’s kind of ubiquitous.
Tell us about a recent exhibition or performance you went too.
Yeh, I went to see Michael Clark at Saddlers Wells which was
a sort of mixture of modern dance and ballet with kind of
contemporary music and lots of kind of mad costumes.
It was a performance of ‘Oh What a Wonderful War’ by a company whose name I can’t remember, which I didn’t enjoy very much
I’ve just been to the Saatchi gallery and I saw some Indian art
some contemporary Indian art, which was extremely interesting
I saw the Dieter Ram’s exhibition recently that was at the design museum.
A print show at Somerset House which is a collection of illustration collectives and printmakers
Well the last thing I went to see were ‘Spy Monkey’ who are a kind of physical theatre, a kind of improvisation comedy
group and they were doing their version of ‘Moby ***’ at one
of the London theatres and it was fantastic because I was on
the 2nd row right *** in the middle, second row, so great performance, great night.
Do you think the arts are important?
Very much so, yes they are part of our culture and we all need
arts to enrich ourselves spiritually really, and to expand our horizons,
to learn about other people, other cultures, terribly important.
Well I think it was Einstein who said that imagination is more
important than intellect, so in a world without art, where is the imagination?
I think they are because it’s a way of expressing yourself or
expressing who you are and you can do it in all different ways
it doesn't have to be in one specific way
Very much so, absolutely, children learn through art more than anything else, I think.
It’s an important way for people to understand, all aspects of life I think.
It’s what makes me feel most alive, what inspires me most,
be a good book, or a performance or, anything that really
moves me, yeh for this reason, to feel intense emotions.