Luminara Star, Community work
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Workshop
Possessions II
2019
Collaborative work by year 10s from Whitstone School & Home Educated children, led by Fiona Campbell and Luminara Star
Recycled and found materials
Fiona Campbell and Luminara Star engaged young people in free workshops making small hand-sized artworks, to be featured as part of the B-Wing exhibition. Based around the theme ‘Possessions’, Year 10s from Whitstone School and local Home Ed families worked with Fiona and Luminara, focussing on identity, marking time, time as value, bound, binding. The use of recycled materials made them ‘think more about everyday objects’, which they found ‘inspiring and surprising’.
The objects mimic ‘precious’ objects created by prisoners as currency to trade, as a way to mark time and re-create a sense of identity.
'The number of hours an inmate takes to make an artwork contributes to its value... the greater the number of hours the more valuable... objects of love, affection and power… Artists who work from found objects are considered most creative… most art will fit comfortably in one’s hand’. Tom Skelly, On the Yard
Collaborative work by year 10s from Whitstone School & Home Educated children, led by Fiona Campbell and Luminara Star
Recycled and found materials
Fiona Campbell and Luminara Star engaged young people in free workshops making small hand-sized artworks, to be featured as part of the B-Wing exhibition. Based around the theme ‘Possessions’, Year 10s from Whitstone School and local Home Ed families worked with Fiona and Luminara, focussing on identity, marking time, time as value, bound, binding. The use of recycled materials made them ‘think more about everyday objects’, which they found ‘inspiring and surprising’.
The objects mimic ‘precious’ objects created by prisoners as currency to trade, as a way to mark time and re-create a sense of identity.
'The number of hours an inmate takes to make an artwork contributes to its value... the greater the number of hours the more valuable... objects of love, affection and power… Artists who work from found objects are considered most creative… most art will fit comfortably in one’s hand’. Tom Skelly, On the Yard