Week 1: My Museum project at Coborn Service for Adolescent Mental Health
May 5, 2009 Community
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1st May 2009
Young people at Coborn Service for Adolescent Mental Health based at Newham General Hospital are working with the Museum to create exciting artworks in a variety of medium inspired by objects from the handling collection.
The group are working with staff from the Museum and artist Emily Candela to explore objects and create artworks. In this first workshop the group took objects to Coborn, which is based at Newham General Hospital. We will be working there each Friday for the next few weeks.
Everyone had a chance to explore a variety of objects and tried to guess what they were. Before revealing the truth everyone came up with new and creative uses for the objects, including a fantastic story about how what is really a bone ice skate could have been a toe bone from a dragon. Some of the group used drama to act out their new uses, such as one member who used a heavy metal bootjack (used to take boots off) as a body builder’s weight. Some of the group used a Victorian glove stretcher in a drama sketch about hair curlers. The group then photographed their favourite objects to use as inspiration for the rest of the project.
In the second part of the workshop everyone created colourful collages which combines old and new objects.
You can see the group’s object photos, as well as their collages on Flickr.
Next week the group will get their hands on expandable foam to create 3D sculpture.