Parkside Federation Sculpture Project
Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination (CCI) worked with a group of students to create a series of sculptures in the courtyard at Parkside Federation Coleridge Campus.
CCI Artists Gilles Bourlet and Martina Gecelli worked collaboratively with a group of year 7 and 8 students (11 – 13 years old) to research, design and create their own ‘figures’ from scrap materials, which are about to be installed in the quad at the Coleridge campus.
The students worked with a range of materials before embarking on their full-scale models. They demonstrated great flexibility and commitment to solving problems and working with each other collaboratively.
I will remember that it takes a lot of hard work and dedication to make something amazing from nothing
(year 7 student)
Ruth Sapsed from CCI, said “this project has offered the opportunity for students to take part in an extended creative project run by creative practitioners. In our experience students relish the space and time offered through these projects and are motivated to quickly fill them with their own ideas”
Craig Morrison, Assistant Principal said “This project has been a superb way of celebrating Coleridge’s first year as an Arts and Humanities specialist school. Enabling students to work with professional artists was one of our first goals: the results show that such collaborations are of enormous benefit to young people.”
