My Abstract Art In Situ at Arbury School

Eight big beautiful abstract pieces celebrating creativity and brightening the walls of my local primary school.
Last year I enjoyed a week’s art residency at Arbury Primary School, and I’ve recently been back for a visit to see the art we created actually up on their walls.

Performance Art in School Assembly

The week began with me painting on stage in the school assembly. I painted in response to their favourite song ‘A right to be loved’ whilst the 450 pupils sang along and watched the picture evolve, projected onto the large screen.
As the morning progressed each class was invited onto the stage to take a closer look and add their own circle round the edge.

This painting is now pride of place on the back wall of their Expressive Arts Hall.

Here is the time-lapse video of the performance art

Abstract Art Workshops
with each school year group

As well as a ‘Meet the artist’ session in each year group, I ran workshops with ~60 children at a time, working on a large collaborative piece.
Taking it in turns, as groups, I took them step by step through the layers and techniques that I use in my own art work. Each year group had a theme of happy, love, peace, kindness, excited, thankful or hope, and they designed their pictures to express and communicate these things.

I photographed their beautiful creations, so the school could purchase some large canvas prints to display around their building.
Here are the seven finished prints that I saw on my recent visit, now hanging in the corresponding year group areas, for the children to remember the fun we had.

To see more ...

To see more pictures and read more detail about my week as artist in residence at Arbury Primary School last year, here is the blog post about:

• the week itself
• and also a post about the idea behind my visit.
  

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