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Shelf Life - Elizabeth Leyland
Resurfacing - William Hoodless
Demonstrations
At the weekend, those volunteers who felt comfortable doing so, were asked to do a presentation on a particular topic to the public. This enabled young and old alike to come along and learn something new, or something more, about sculpture. During our first weekend we were taught how to sculpt a head from papier mâché, followed by an invitation to reflect on the Creative Process. To round it off, we explored the art of making relief sculptures with moulds & texture.
The following weekend we turned our minds to portraiture with the public learning how to make a portrait in clay but also grasp how 3D scanning technology might help this process along. Fascinating for all to see. We had GCSE students taking ideas away for their final pieces, through to keen amateurs vowing to take sculpture classes in their spare time, so inspired were they by what they had seen during the various demonstrations.
Each weekend we then had one activity session where we invited “everyone from 4 to 104” to come along and “have a go with clay” themselves. Supervised by our members, the public were invited to come and play with what is a base material for so many of our sculptors. Invited to make their own maquettes and just get used to this brilliantly flexible material, again we saw enthusiasm from children and adults alike, with all taking hints and tips from our wonderful volunteers as they literally got stuck in, getting theirs hands dirty with clay.