Brynteg Primary School I

This Monday I went to visit Mrs Wells' class at Brynteg Primary School. Throughout the day I taught the class some wire sculpture and this is what they created.

The first task was to make some stick men out of pipe cleaners...



We then moved on to using more sophisticated techniques with the garden wire...


And finally we put ourselves to the test to create some Giraffes...



I had a really great day with the class and it was wonderful to see them picking up the wire sculpture skills so quickly. Thank you for having me!

Saturday Creative Club III

This weekend we put our skills to the test to make some four legged animals.

We started with a demonstration of a Giraffe, Holly and Aber came up with some great ones...


Ashleigh of course chose to do something a little different a created this cute little cat...



Then we had a bit of a play which resulted in this pair of glasses...



and this little puppy, inspired by our visitor Tip(?) who might be joining us again next week...



Ashleigh started a horse but has taken him home to finish, so we'll see what he looks like next week.

Saturday Creative Club II

This week we attempted some tricky larger scale bugs, we had some Butterflies...



and a Dragon Fly...


With Sheena just making one up...


I think they all look great especially with the Moon Scape background, thanks Paul. With the spare couple of minutes we had left we made some tiny spiders...



and a mosquito too!

Saturday Creative Club I

This morning we started the next series of Wire Sculpture Workshops at Borderland Voices in Leek. Once again we started with stick men to get to grips with the wire. We then moved on to some cute little bugs.



We decorated our stick men a bugs by giving them beads for eyes.


Sheena managed to finish her parachuting man, and he is now hanging proudly in the Borderland Voices window!

Wire Sculpture with John and Alec

One of my last days at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery was spent delivering a wire sculpture workshop to two of my colleagues.

Let's see how well they did.

Alec came up with a much deliberated over swimmer...

And John delivered this impressive guitarist, guitar and Fender Junior Tweed (correct me if I'm wrong) amp ensemble!
Many references were made to Keith Richards, especially following the discovery of the guitarist's lack of balance.

Together they make the front half of a rock band, with audience and diving lead singer!

And I made this punt/gondola with woman and brolly-that I have since changed to be the correct way around.

Creative Club at Borderland Voices IV

This week was the last Monday night session at Borderland Voices. Everybody demonstrated how much they have learned with these amazing sculptures.

Rob made a lizard...

and a bug for him to eat...

although it looks to me more like the bug would eat the lizard!

George started with a dinosaur, or was it a stick man? No it was a Gorilla!And then he made this rather brilliant dragon!
And Cameron made this snake as well as providing us with all these wonderful backgrounds.

Stuart was with us again and he made yet another spider!


Then followed a few collaborative projects including this George and the Dragon scene by Katie, Stuart and Cameron.
And Rob and Katie were put to the test to create some portraits in response to Stuart's self portrait.Then finally we did a bit of experimental photography, moving the sculptures around and came up with 'Talking Heads'

Thank you to everyone for taking part!

Creative Club at Borderland Voices III

The third week of wire sculpture workshops and everyone seems to be getting on really well. Stuart Porter was helping out this week so we tested his sculpting talents too.

Some more spiders were made this week. This was Amy's


and this was Stuart's (not bad for a first attempt).

He also made this 'very exciting' washing machine


There were more interesting creatures.


Cameron made his into key rings which is a great idea.


Then finally we had a portrait


and a great recreation of Isaac Newton's moment of genius.


During the workshops we have also been experimenting with beads and pipe cleaners for decoration and detail.