Dear You Art Project

Mail Art + Pen Friends = Dear You Art Project

8 years old

Sampling, sounds, and storytelling for their friends in Finland

2020, 8 years old, 9 years old, Collective Art, Finland, Mixed age group, United KingdomArlene TuckerComment

Alethea and Sigi have been working on these pieces inspired by the ‘collaging’ in the last project as well as their experiences over the recent lockdowns. They have experimented with making sounds with what was available to them, banging together pebbles, using hairbrushes to play the ukekele, using their voices as instruments and playing each other their favourite piano pieces.

Staying healthy and weaving

2020, 8 years old, 7 years oldArlene TuckerComment

The girls thoroughly enjoyed their weaving task, they had spent previous weeks collecting materials and snippets of colours that appealed to them from magazines. They worked with a number of magazines from food related to health and lifestyle and the London Review of books! They found images in the health magazine particularly amusing and worked some images of noses and people sneezing into their collages which prompted discussion about Corona virus and the current restrictions.

Weaving recycled materials in Finland

2020, 10 years old, 8 years old, Dear You Art Workshops, Finland, United KingdomArlene TuckerComment

Hello from middle of the cardboard boxes and packing :).

It was fun for the girls to get the scissors out for a change and use their hands and creativeness in a new way in this weaving project. Both girls carefully chose the recycled materials that they wanted to use. Out of all materials Ella and Anna-Sofia were most fond of the pages from a Tate Modern membership magazine.