On July 8th we made a Giant Bird with the public at The Kilburn Festival!
We made a Kingfisher because Kingfishers are on of the only birds who have species found across the planet! We thought this fitted nicely into the Festivals theme of Community, Inclusivity and Diversity.
So we made an inner armature from wood and then covered it with wiremesh and newspaper.
Then we covered the whole thing in Plaster and decorated it with hundreds of fabric squares.
The Festival also had an Olympics theme, so the colours we chose were the same colours of the Olympic rings!
You can watch a 2minute video of the making of the Giant Bird here! ->
We had such a great day! Thanks to everyone who took part.
The Mayor of Camden invited us to display the finished piece in the local Town Hall!
If you would like us to create something special for your Event, we would love to be a part of it!
To celebrate May Day and The Crouch End Festival 2012, Leona and one of her assistants from Artist's Resource went to Stationers Park, N8, to make a life size Sculpture of a sheep! But not just any sheep - a psychedelic one!
You can Watch the video of the making of the Psychedelic Sheep Sculpture by clicking on this photo below:
Leona and Miriam started off in Hornsey Vale Community Centre, making the main structure of the sheep. We used wiremesh, wire and newspaper to construct the sheeps body, head, legs, tail and decorative swirls on it's back to represent the wooly coat.
When the wire stage was complete, we took the sculpture outside to start on the plaster stage with the public. Anyone could join in! It was so much fun meeting local parents and children who all helped cover the sheep in plaster.
When the plaster had dried, we went onto the next stage - covering it with 100's of squares of fabric! We had so many gorgeous fabrics to choose from! Everyone had lots of fun gluing their chosen fabric squares onto the sheep sculpture.
When the sculpture was complete, we donated the finished piece to Hornsey Vale Community Centre, N8 so that everyone who visits this fabulous place can see and enjoy all our hard work.
On Sunday 3rd July 2011, me and my team at Artists Resource set up a community art project at the Cally Festival, N1, London.
You can watch the 'making of' video Here:
We got to work making a Giant Octopus! Firstly, we made the structure using wire mesh and stuffed it with newspaper. We made 8 tentacles and attached them to the body using wire.
After that we propped up the Octopus and got to work covering him in plaster bandage. It was so much fun and everyone - children and adults alike - loved smoothing out all the plaster.
After the plaster stage, we then pulled out lots of gorgeous fabrics that had been donated to us from various local charity shops. We cut them into squares of roughly the same shape and painted them onto the sculpture with PVA.
The finished sculpture can be seen in the POP-UP Gallery on Caledonian Road for a week.
Thanks to all the team! We had so much fun with the community. What an amazing making day!
