Arts Desire with the Creative Art Project in Ilkeston

We also worked with the Creative Arts Project in Ilkeston, creating trinket boxes and egg box animals.

Here are some of the designs.

Arts Desire

Our Arts Desire project in Ilkeston has been going wonderfully well with the lovely folk at Flamsteed Day Centre. Paper mache is the artform and we have made bowls, little trinket boxes, fishes and egg box animals.

Kindly funded by Derbyshire County Council Public Health Covid 19 Fund.

3D models @ Fleet Arts

We worked with 30 children in the summer to create their own special place or building using cardboard boxes, paper and tubes. Here are some of the designs

The cat peeping out the window

Birds, boxes and bunting at the Arboretum

We ran 2 x half term family workshops in the Heart of the Park at the arboretum in Derby. We went paper crazy and made all these wonderful things and everyone was very happy :)

Think inside the box

The photos are taken at the preview of an exhibition  showing at the  Mary Potter centre in Hyson Green, Nottingham. The exhibition is a culmination of a 10 week art project we worked on with a fantastic group of people. Here is the description of the exhibition written by Frances who commisioned us for the project;

Think inside the box!

An exhibition of artwork created by and designed for people with visual impairments.

Over ten weeks six creative participants; Debbie, Tammie, Trevor, Pushortum, Tom and Derek have been working with Jenny and Maureen from Spiral Arts to create artwork for this exhibition. They have worked with clay, mod-roc, papier-mache, print-making, weaving, poetry, sound recording and aromatherapy.

The mysteries that lie within these boxes represent the participants own personalities in the form of sight, smell, sound and touch. You will enjoy some poetry from Derek and some West African Drumming from Trevor. Just like the artwork in this exhibition, visually impaired sight is unique to each person.

This exhibition encourages the viewer to ‘think outside the box’ when experiencing art as all the work in this exhibition can be enjoyed through alternative senses to sight such as touch, sound and smell. Open the doors to enjoy the multi-sensory experiences that the participants have prepared for you …