Kevin’s approach to conveying art-historical information is deliberately playful and oblique, building bridges to the artwork through the ancient power of storytelling. He establishes appropriate themes and arguments through riddles, language-games, folktales, legends, myths and literary, religious or biographical texts. He coaxes a dynamic relationship between viewer and artwork, drawing out the viewer’s own creativity and linking it with the creative impulse behind the artwork. Kevin believes that this tangential approach can result in a heightened act of looking, because it involves the viewer in the process of making meaningful connections.

Recent projects include:

Speaking Pictures: from 1996 to 2004, gallery-based sessions enabling children and young people to respond creatively and critically to works of art at Tate Britain.

Telling Tales from Titian: myths, biographical stories and pure flights of fancy at the National Gallery.

Faces in the Crowd: recording children’s responses to Faces in the Crowd, an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery on the theme of identity and city life. Project in collaboration with a visual artist and sound engineer, culminating in production of a CD featuring children’s voices played at a listening post in the gallery reading-room, and on portable CD players.