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Our Darkness and Light Animation

In the last few weeks we have worked with 330 children in  5 schools across Kirklees to create an animation around the theme of Darkness and Light; another project for Our Biennale www.ourbiennale.org 4 primary schools ( Marsden I and N, Birkby Juniors, Hillside Primary and Holmfirth JI and N)  initially developed ideas through poetry

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Oaks Primary at Byram Arcade

As part of our Byram Arcade residency Oaks Primary School, Huddersfield  brought 15 classes  to experience making large scale artwork. Each group had an afternoon with us in our studio and the results were fantastic.   Each Year group had a different theme.. Yr 4’s were exploring the theme ‘Pollution Solution’ We made a BIG

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…so far at Byram Arcade…

Only 6 weeks in to our residency and we are loving working with Huddersfield children in our studio at Byram Arcade. So far we have created a cardboard town… …with roads and buses…. ….created wonderful paintings of the Huddersfield town centre exploring architectural  shapes and colours…. …. made charcoal drawings of the cardboard town created in the

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Ebb and Flow Finale

What an amazing end to our Ebb and Flow project! Our young artists (11-13 years old), having produced the most wonderful drawings and paintings, took part in a ‘happening’ which combined projections of the artworks with improvised music, sound and readings of their flow of consciousness poems.   Led by the amazing Charlotte Watson and

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Monsters in the city

Support for Cultural Education

More support for cultural education: https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/all-our-children-deserve-a-rich-cultural-education-not-all-them-are The chairman of Arts Council England argues that ‘all pupils should have the opportunity to create, compose, and perform their own artistic work’ Through art and culture, we come to understand and articulate ourselves. They engage us in a dialogue about values; they define our national identity and our

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Junior tentacles!

Junior tentacles! So proud of our junior artists who have tackled  3D form through using light and shade  so brilliantly! Really lovely drawings and some of these artists are only 4 years old!

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