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Gifted & Talented Sculpture Project - 2003
March 2003 Artblock embarked on an eight week sculpture project with children from three local schools; Dale Primary, Hardwick Community Junior & Pear Tree Community Junior School. Six children were chosen to represent each school.
The aim of the project was to get each school to produce a life-size figurative sculpture, with each figure split into three sections or blocks; head, torso & legs, with each section being constructed, based on the work of a famous sculptor. The three sculptors chosen were Joseph Cornell, Naum Gabo & Alberto Giacometti. After an initial get together by all three schools, weekly workshops were run at each of the schools looking at the work of the three sculptors.
The next three weeks of the project were dedicated to the construction of the finished figurative sculpture. Each school was allocated different sections to construct; for example, one school may construct a Joseph Cornell head, Alberto Giacometti body & Naum Gabo legs, with another school producing a Gabo head, a Cornell body & Giacometti legs (sounds more complicated than it actually is!!!). Each section was contained within a box, enabling the finished sections to be stacked on top of each other to produce the finished sculpture.
The final week of the project saw the three schools & the three sculptures come together. The sections of the figure were rearranged; all the Cornell sections, all the Gabo sections and all the Giacometti sections were brought together to reveal three new sculptures. We now had an Alberto Giacometti figure, a Naum Gabo figure & a Joseph Cornell figure.