That’s not art! He was examining a curled up, photocopied image of Tracy Emin’s Turner Prize-nominated My Bed.
“What do you mean?” I asked. My grandfather looked at me: “How can this be put forward for an art prize? You want to get yourself over to a proper gallery with proper pictures.”
It was many years ago and my grandfather had asked me to tell him what I had been studying at university, which is why Emin’s My Bed found its way into his hands.
The questions that had arisen from conversations with my now late grandfather circled in my mind again in 2017. The way in which individuals interpret art and the world can be applied to classrooms and raises questions about how we see teaching and learning and approach our professional practice.
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