Can I have advice on how to write a personal statement for creative or arts subjects?

Writing a personal statement can be daunting, but it is actually a great way to introspect on how your interests have developed. With creative subjects, such as arts and humanities, relaying your relevant work experience isn't always the most powerful way of presenting your passion or curiosity. One way of demonstrating both your interests, along with your ability to research your subject area creatively, is to explain how you're interaction with specific art pieces lead to your discovery of others. This is the basic formula I used to structure my own personal statement - it enabled me to maintain a flowing, engaged tone while I attempted to fit as many examples as possible within the limited word count! Remember, universities want to see that you'll bring passion for your subject to your course and your personal statement should be focused on presenting that.Here is an example paragraph from a draft of my own personal statement. Hopefully you can see how I connected specific texts to my wider understanding of literature.A pivotal moment in my literary education was interpreting Ovid’s Elegy 1. The poet calls on epic traditions to convey his connection with writing love elegy, the way Latin enabled him to structure his language added a certain expression to his meaning that I hadn’t experienced in English. This elicited my fascination with the history of language and the possibility for the ‘expansion of meaning over time’; how ‘verba', words can act as a ‘ver’, spring for meaning. To keep exploring the spirit of ancient literature I chose Classics A-level. It enabled me to compare different translations of classical texts and my own curiosity lead me to examine the Ancient Greek of the Iliad. I discovered Achilles’ epithet, ‘rage’ was translated from the greek middle voice, giving effect to a reflective quality, meaning his capacity for rage was both an inward and outward affliction. Beautiful details like these have given me a desire to expand my understanding of varied cultural expressions to modern languages and their literatures in order to consider different ways of seeing. I feel this idea is wonderfully embodied in the short Sci-Fi story by Ted Chiang: Stories of your Life, which I was first exposed to while studying English Literature at A-level. Throughout the course I was most interested in drawing comparisons unbound by culture or temporality and in my final essay compared Shakespeare’s King Lear to Kozintsev’s 1971 Russian film adaptation. Comparing film to text encouraged me to pursue extracurricular reading which educated me on literature’s profound ability to converge and unite many academic disciplines. Tom Stoppard’s play Arcadia demonstrated to me the reliance of the sciences on creativity. Italo Calvino’s transcendental Cosmicomics, a series of philosophical fables which all have a scientific backbone, allowed me to understand that metaphysical ideas can be mathematically reinforced.