Students have been working on various selected Textiles projects, which have included hand-sewing items such as pin-cushions, crochet, knitting, pompom making, and more.
This week students in Year 7 were shown an installation artwork, which was a photograph of an artwork created by artist, Deborah Hamon. She made about 2000 pom poms, all in shades of blue, white and turquoise, and then she took them to the Arctic, close to the North Pole. Here she  photographed the pom poms, which were installed on top of the icy landscape. It is quite an interesting photograph. It was great to see the Textiles students inspired by such an installation artwork of Pom poms and now they are planning to “install” some sort of creation around the college some time in the future. One group of Year 7s decided to make “a pom-pom army of birds.” Most of that class decided to work collaboratively on this task.  I’m sure there will be more photographs to come.
Carol Clough - Arts & Technology Faculty Coordinator