out & about 2017 - final project post

Out & About 2017

Photography by Nick Singleton

 Introductory workshop in school

  Brimham Rocks

 Gallery 5 at The Hepworth Wakefield

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

wooly thinking

Today, the Epicentre in Leytonstone was buzzing with families celebrating Story Feast, a wonderful poetry project for primary schools developed and delivered by the Discover Children's Story Centre. Families listened to and joined in with story telling, invented poems, made art and sculpture. Children created a wooly walkway into the event, some spending hours carefully interweaving, others working in joyful bursts. We joked they would receive a ball of wool for their birthdays, so absorbed were they by the process!  

As participants threaded and wrapped I captured their imaginative descriptions of the growing wooly web:

Spider girl!

A trap

A maze

Cobweb

Zig Zag

Colossal

Mega web

Climbing

Tangly

Sticky as honey

 Ready!

 3D drawing

Wooly thinking

out & about - celebration

Our Out & About celebration was a chance for the three schools; Airedale Academy, De lacy Academy and Wakefield City Academy to gather in The Hepworth Wakefield learning studios and share their experiences. The studios were buzzing with gallery staff and participants friends and family. Pupils voiced project highlights, certificates were presented and we clapped and cheered! Meaningful connections are made with the schools and I hope this leads to future creative collaboration with THW. Proud!

 

 Muddy handmade sketchbooks

Waiting for the schools to arrive!

out & about 2017 - film

Very proud to share this brilliant film documenting Out & About 2017 by Nick Singleton. In an unobtrusive and sensitive way, Nick captured the mood and delight of this fantastic project - thank you!

Click here: Out & About 2017 film

out & about - yorkshire sculpture park

Yorkshire Sculpture Park provided the final destination for Out & About 2017, bringing together our project themes of landscape and sculpture in a phenomenal way! The groups explored the park, free range and self directed, linking/relating sculptures to Brimham Rocks, Hepworth and spotting designed landscape, reminiscent of Nostell Priory and Parkland amongst naturalistic views. Standing in front of Bob & Roberta Smith's, Art Makes Children Powerful we considered this statement and shared our ideas, before asking the question, 'How has this project made you powerful?' The thoughtful and heartfelt statements that followed were beyond my hopes for the project. 

Our last day was also the wettest of this whole adventure, and spirits were high. As the group trudged, rain soaked, towards the coach, an aunt of one of the boys turned to me with a grin and asked, 'Would you do it again?', 'YES!' I replied without hesitation, 'I would too' came the reply, and that felt amazing!

 This isn't sculpture!

 Drawing Koorida

 Investigating 

 Yorkshire soil on our sketchbooks 

 Cragg, reminding us of Brimham Rocks

 Peace of paper

 Moore drawing

Art Empowers