Artworks inspired by Locws Projects 2010/1:
‘…it is 89 days this morning since we left the Mumbles Head’ by Jackie Chettur
Swansea’s Civic Centre
There was no end of ideas floating around the classroom on my arrival at school. The Children were excited and ready to make some interesting artworks inspired from day one. Multi-layering imagery using two and three-dimensional work was a big influence, derived from Jackie Chettur’s piece of art, it was prominent in the work that the children wanted to produce.
One group was to recreate a diary with a cut out viewpoint, overlooking a three-dimensional enclosed model with soundtrack.
A TV screen was to be the background of another, with a film of the school fish tank, combined with a model of a sinking ship.
An arena of mirrors was another group’s take, to give a multi-image impression to the viewer.
A Barque was created with the sails as pages from Benjamin Davies’ diary.
Plastic bottles formed another model with pages from the diary within, forming the hull of a Barque.
It was a great outcome of artworks and to top it all a ‘soundscape’ was created with whole class participation, to represent Benjamin in person, on a Barque, portraying an on board out at sea experience. Truly excellent.
Click here to listen to the soundscape.
David Marchant 2010
