![]() Elsewhere in the gallery, young readers can immerse themselves in children’s books by writers of colour in Story Space , a library celebrating a diverse range of talent and helping everyone to see themselves reflected in what they read. Free artist-led workshops that respond to Hew Locke’s The Procession will take place every Saturday over the summer holidays. Taking the principles of therapeutic play as a starting point, everyone is encouraged to explore, test and create using a range of materials and objects inspired by art in the galleries. Elsewhere on the Tate Kids website, Who is Yayoi Kusama? offers anyone curious about The obliteration room the chance to discover what all the dots are about, while the Create Dots Like Kusama virtual workshop provides a step-by-step guide to making your own Kusama-inspired art.įamilies visiting Tate Britain this summer can enjoy the new Play Studio, a free immersive space for everything from sand-play and cardboard assemblage to music and movement. Families keen to get creative from home can engage with Tate Draw online, including a word prompt activity and an invisible drawing challenge. Those wishing to flaunt their artistic talent further can choose to order a t-shirt with their drawing printed on the front, creating a one-off design to wear themselves or gift to others. Once the finishing touches have been made, the illustration is projected onto the gallery walls and aspiring artists can download a copy of their work for free by scanning a QR code. At both Tate Modern and Tate Britain, permanent digital drawing stations offer visitors the chance to create sketches inspired by art in the galleries. Over the weekend of 13th and 14th August, The obliteration room will also host a house-warming party, celebrating one year of UNIQLO Tate Play with music and activities for all the family.įamilies looking to add even more colour to their visit can engage with free digital drawing activities available at the newly launched Tate Draw. UNIQLO Tate Play: The obliteration room at Tate Modern will be the largest iteration of this artwork yet and will incorporate furniture and objects donated by members of the local community around Southwark ready to be adorned with stickers. ![]() Beginning as a completely white domestic space filled with all white furniture, visitors are given a sheet of colourful dot stickers of varying sizes which they can place wherever they like to help turn the room into a riot of colour. Originally commissioned by the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia, The obliteration room is one of Kusama’s most ambitious participatory works and reflects the artist’s enduring obsession with accumulation, obliteration, and becoming one with the artwork. Mark Miller, Director of Learning, Tate said “It’s more important than ever before that families in the local communities around Tate’s four galleries know that there are fun, creative, memorable experiences available to them here for free throughout the school holidays.” Families visiting Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives can also discover an exciting range of creative activities and materials on offer for free, while the launch of Tate Draw, supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies, at both London galleries and online will give budding young artists a new platform to produce their very own digital drawings. The same is true for Yayoi Kusama, who, in my opinion is a living creative genius .As part of UNIQLO Tate Play, Tate Modern’s year-round family programme in partnership with UNIQLO, visitors to Tate Modern are invited to transform a white domestic apartment into a sea of colourful dots using bright stickers. ![]() You can identify Picasso’s, Dali’s, Monet’s works right away, because over the years they have managed to create a certain style, a voice that instantly shouts out the owner of the work. Your creativity is truly understood and recognised when you manage to preserve that strong, precise, distinct and consistent aesthetic you have within your work and believe in what you do till the very end. Some say this is because of her illness, but I believe it has to do with her creative character. It’s very fascinating that she has had this obsession with dots for decades now, and she is so consistent about this technique in her art. The idea here is to obliterate the innoncence of something that was once considered pure and natural and Kusama chose to reflect this with the colors of her famous “dots”. Ever since this installation has been made, I’ve been looking at it over and over and over again. ![]() Some call her crazy but the ones who know what she is all about surely appreciate where Kusama is going with her work. ![]()
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