5 sessions from Mon 22 Jul 2024 [Show]
Each day a visiting artist will lead art workshops with the children, supported by our creative playworkers. We cover a wide variety of art and crafts with a focus on learning and most of all FUN! With access to a full range of arts facilities and equipment, and use of our extensive grounds, lawns, gardens and woodland.
Our artists daily activities are listed below.
Details…
The club is for primary school children aged 5-12 years and will run from 9am – 3.30pm
(drop off from 9am-9.30am, pick up 3.30pm sharp)
The club costs £33 per day, this includes the provision of a wide range of art materials, refreshments, and snack.
Children will need to bring their own packed lunch and raincoat/sunscreen.
We hope to get outside into our beautiful grounds to explore as often as possible, so please pack raincoats as well as dressing in suitable clothing and footwear.
The club is for children with a love of art and crafts.
This is a busy and noisy environment with up to 32 children participating daily. Please note that we are not a registered childcare provider, and we do not have additional support beyond our Artists and Creative Playworkers.
We want all our children to get the most from their art club workshops, in a safe and happy environment. If you would like to discuss accessibility, please give us a call.
This ticket is for people who are on benefits such as Income based Council Tax or are unemployed or unable to work and worry about meeting their and their family's basic needs. There is a limited number of these tickets.
There are a maximum of 4 free places available to be shared amongst families low income families. Please select one session per week, per child.
These few places are much needed, please be considerate when booking so that other families can also benefit from the sessions.
Universal Credit - Please note, our Universal credit ticket no longer exists. As Universal Credit has recently restructured, our free ticket criteria has been updated to make sure that these are reaching the families who cannot afford them otherwise.
with Artist Nicky Bolland
Nicky is a visual and community artist based near Perth. She has worked in community settings and youth arts for over a decade and loves taking inspiration from the world around us and the materials available. In her own work Nicky loves playing with clay and with printing processes to create work that plays with colour and pattern and encourages curiosity. She enjoys bringing the same play and curiosity into the workshops she delivers.
Nature’s Architects : A week of sessions celebrating and taking inspiration from the more-than-human architects around us. Each session will begin with curiosity – looking at examples and inspiration in the natural world before getting creative ourselves, drawing on the work of artists whose work is connected.
Monday
Wild Weavers: Spiders are master weavers: taking their fine work as inspiration we’ll look at the form and pattern. We will use string and beads to create our own colourful dream catching webs. We’ll then create our very own woven installation in the garden, influenced by artists such as Shane Waltener.
Tuesday
Nests are best: Inspired by our feathered friends, we’ll look at the diverse form’s nests take and the diverse materials from which they are built. We will use charcoal to capture the different forms nests can take, playing with mark-making and line. We’ll then take inspiration from the Satin Bowerbird and artist Paul Harfleet, creating stage-like structures in the garden and making our very own bird-inspired accessories for a fashion show with a difference.
Wednesday
Paper Sculptors: Wasps, butterflies, and many other pollinators create vessels out of paper-like materials. We’ll explore the creativity behind these constructions and how such delicate materials can make such robust homes for their inhabitants. The first part of the day will be spent making our own paper from waste materials. In the afternoon we’ll use the paper materials we have created to build our very own sculptural vessels.
Thursday
Water engineers: Beavers are masters of water. In this session we’ll think about how beavers create diverse water-worlds and the materials they use to do it. The first part of session we’ll play with watercolour on paper exploring how we can divert and disrupt coloured water trails on paper. Then we’ll work out in the garden to create our own sculptures inspired by the work of the beavers and artists like Andy Goldsworthy.
Friday
Kelp Worlds: How does kelp contribute to building a diverse and vibrant coastline? We’ll explore the importance of kelp as an ecosystem influencer and learn more about the ways in which it supports biodiversity. Following creative games, this session will involve creating our very own underwater seascapes, combining collage processes with seaweed printing.
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