SEN schools
I have headed arts projects with with schools whose pupils are educationally challenged. There are two projects detailed here. A price is given for each indicating the total cost of design, workshops, materials and construction of the finished work.
1) Osborne school in Winchester, Art Without Borders.
Designs inspired by the figure are brought together here in both negative and positive space to make this white cement sculpture. 32 pupils employed photography and clay modelling skills to build molds and models for this work which is sited on the grass opposite the school library.
2) Hollywater school in Bordon, Powerhouse - plaster relief.
This wall relief was designed for the schools central lobby and involved every member of the school community, 217 people in all. Each person contributed a unique plaster relief tile using molds made from personal items. Being a white relief on a white wall makes it a striking but not overpowering part of this public space.
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Hollywater School - Fingers cast
This tile is a cast of a students fingers repeatedly pushed into the mould.
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Powerhouse at Hollywater school
A view of the plaster relief wrapping around the doorway to the IT suites.
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Powerhouse (detail)
This photograph shows the often intricate detail cast in the plaster tiles.
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Hollywater School - Tools and Toys
A student at Hollywater School made this tile by moulding a favourite toy along with other objects in the art room.
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Erecting the work
This photo of me fixing the tiles to the wall gives an indication of the overall scale of this work.
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Art Without Borders at Osborne School
Front view of the finished work showing the four larger figures.
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Art Without Borders (back view)
Back view of the finished work showing the 26 figures as negative space in the cement blocks.
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Osborne School - Making 3D silhouettes
28 pupils at Osborne School modelled 3D silhouettes of themselves in clay, these then formed the negative spaces in the block wall.
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Osborne School - students designing the free standing figures.
Students used paper templates to help them design the larger figures.
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Osborne School - the sculpture and the sculptors
Members of the team all standing together with the work we made.