Day 1:
We were looking for shapes in photographs found in magazines, but also in photographs the participants took in Matt Darbyshire's concurrent exhibition at Gasworks.
In a first stage, these shapes, which needn't be traced objects, were placed on an overhead projector and traced on large sheets of paper.
This created a 'confused' line drawing. In a second activity, the participants filled in the segments with different colours.
At the end, we cut out A4 sections of the paintings, which could be taken home.
Day 2:
This day started with a collage exercise were we again used shapes found in photographs. This time we tried to use the cut out shapes to create new shapes.
In the following sculptural activity, we used wire to 'trace' objects and to reconstruct these objects in space. New objects were also produced.
At the end, we combined everybody's objects to a larger assamblage. Polaroid photographs were made that could be taken home together with the sculptures.
Some parents couldn't get enough and took some extra wire home with them.
Day 3:
We started with a game were we each drop a piece of wood onto a sheet of paper and drew a line. Then we passed on the sheet to the next person, who repeated the dropping of the wood and the drawing of a line (in a different) colour moving the piece of wood in such a way as to make the lines connect without changing the angle of the wood.
This created long and colourful, random lines. In a second activity we created our own three-dimensional tube map: first, we stuck cards on the walls onto which we drew symbols representing our 'stations'. Following this, we used coloured wool to connect all the stations, which created a mesh of criss-crossing lines across the room.
Laying down on the floor we had a better look at the network we created. Polaroid photographs of the installation could be taken home as well as the initial line drawings.
Day 4:
We began this day with a collage exercise, only that this time we asked everybody to create similar shapes and glue them onto a piece of paper in order to create a pattern.
Using these and similar shapes we built a number of stamps, which we first experimented with on individual sheets of paper before moving on to create a collaborative work on a large sheet of paper.
Some patterns worked really well in relation to others.
At the end, the participants could take home their own stamps and the small initial works they had made in the beginning.