Personal Feelings on Visit to Sculpture Park

As a group we agree that our feelings were pretty much mutual on our visit to the park. Some enjoyed it more than others but what the park actually had to offer our age group and how they treated us was depicted the same way.
• As we first went into the Sculpture Park our group was asked if we had some with school/college and if we had booked a place or had a leader they could speak to. When i explained we were from the university they looked a bit shocked which made us think they didn’t know what to offer our age group and didn’t know how to react. OR they were surprised to see so many of our age group there-which when we walked around the park we noticed this may be the reason.
• As much as i personally admired the sculptures and how much work was made to create them i was a little disheartened to what was actually there as were the rest of the team. The only places that appealed to me were the Rob Ryan exhibition and the shop-though that was extremely expensive, although very beautiful and if i had the money would have bought everything but i don’t and i think that’s something we as a group want to make easier for students to be able to purchase these exclusive gifts.

There also wasn't alot to interact with at the park. As art students i think we all agree we enjoy 'doing'. We want to touch things, feel the textures to get a better understanding of what we are seeing, we want to replicate or be inspired from what we see and there was alot of 'Do not touch' and 'Do not climb' signs but not alot that we could do. We understand the sculptured are made from expensive and precious materials however there could be other things offered to people that they can interact with, something they can offer back to their friends.

• We also noticed that when we were looking around the exhibitions we were followed-we understand it is to protect the sculptures but the people were very intimidating and we couldn’t relax. They were also not very approachable or friendly so only really read the information about the sculptures instead of interacted with them because we didn't feel comfortable doing so.