This blog has been created to record one year of my life as artist in residence. Most of the artists/venues mentionned will be linked to their own website - so if a name is highlighted in the text, click and you will be linked!
Friday 10 June 2011
YEAR 8 PAPER PROJECT - AFRICAN MASKS
I am always astonished by the skills of young pupils and really enjoyed their year 8 girls latest project on African masks. They were aiming to design and make their own three dimensional mask by experimented first with paper sculpture techniques such as scoring, folding, pleating, tearing , curling. They discovered how paper which is always thought of as flat, can actually be a very effective sculptural material. The ideas created in these experiments are now being used successfully in making their own masks as per following photographs:
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