For our GCS project we took a trip to the Van Gogh Immersive Experience London to explore how to turn a space into an immersive experience. This will relate to a GCS session in a couple of weeks so it will be great that we will go in with prior knowledge and first hand experience. I had heard about the Van Gogh experience before but had not bothered to look into it any further so I didn’t have any expectations going into it. Here are some photos that I took of the experience and the various artwork displays.
One part of the experience was that you could colour a Van Gogh painting and then take a picture of it and display it on a big screen. Then you could leave it blue tacked on the wall in a collage of all the other drawings. You were limited to a limited colour pallet of crayons so it was difficult to achieve certain colours. It has been a while since I had coloured anything with crayons and so I did enjoy getting to create art abstractly and not think to hard about the result but just enjoy the process.
Overall, I did enjoy getting to see it before it closes next month, and I learn a little something more about Van Gogh. However, did I think it was a worthwhile experience? It’s hard to say because it might have just simply not been my preference but the whole experience did seem a little lacklustre. It is interesting to see how these immersive experiences are being created and displaying artworks in new ways.