Primary

Primary
Projects within schools include one day taster workshops or longer residencies. Children can have the opportunity to work with many mediums investigating materials to create sculptures, banners or hangings.

What If, Coventry
The Ricoh Arena in Coventry offered 30 schools a chance to participate in a project to win copiers and accessories for their school. I worked with children from two Coventry primary schools. After a visit to the arena the children used photographs they had taken to inspire them to create their own artworks. One group worked with photos to create montages, some worked with treasure box materials to create shapes and patterns found within the building. They were also given recycled materials to construct large sculptures representing their ideas. The OHP was also used to enlarge their drawings that they later painted in bright dyes.

Each of the artworks created will be exhibited at Ricoh Arena for the public to see.

The Chinese Zodiac
Young people from Years 3 & 4 worked together in small groups to create the animals from the zodiac using handmade felt. By laying large amounts of different coloured wool, they created the animals. By adding small details too the wool was then ready to be rolled with hot water until the felt was made. Other groups created their animals using wire to make large scale 3D sculptures

Schools involved have included Grange Farm, Frederick Bird and Pearl Hyde in Coventry, Bilbrook Middle school in Wolverhampton, St Josephs in Worcestershire and William Cowper in Birmingham.

 

© Sally Harper 07