Primary School Hall Sculpture
Saltwood
With the brief to create a sculpture for the school hall that involved the whole primary school, I spent a week working on-site and ended the project with a mini-exhibition for parents on Friday afternoon. Each year group visited the “art room” for a few hours, where—using minimal materials — we chatted about what it's like to be an artist and experimented with making simple 3D paper constructions. Every student created their own artwork, while also contributing pieces to two collaborative sculptures.
The students were keen to make a dinosaur, while the school hoped for something religious. After a long week, we managed to cover all bases, and everyone left happy.
Paper workshops
Various
Short tailor-made workshops in schools and colleges; working quickly with paper and old books/photocopies, students respond first to shown work and then incorporate their own ideas and influences.
Fantasy Mural
Primary school Gifted-and-Talented project, Clapham
2007
Selected students worked over a term on mapping/drawing their local area, as well as studying relevant art and architecture. Using sketchbooks and story-telling they then interpreted their ideas into a utopian type fantasy mural for their school playground. Assisted by Lisa Nash.
Jabberwocky Literacy Project
Stockwell
2007
A cross-curricular project involving a targeted group of 20 students from Yr 1-6, with an emphasis on literacy, confidence building and socialisation skills; the students used, sculpture, painting, collage, drama, recitation, story-telling to interpret the poem ‘The Jabberwocky’. The students all kept sketchbooks, did an assembly for the school, while their 3D work formed an installation in the school library. Assisted by Carol Stubbington.