A query from a fellow museum educator on GEM (Group for Education in Museums) made me think about some of the lovely and creative work produced by children who come along to workshops. This image shows the most amazingly sustained piece of work by a little girl and her very helpful Mum! This was a family-friendly workshop billed as making fantasy furniture. The museum was the Gordon Russell Trust Museum in Broadway in Worcestershire. Full of the fabulous furniture designs by the Gordon Russell Company, there was lots of speculation about what could be produced from some junk modelling boxes and bits of paper. We used sheets of paper using the wood pattern fill on Office - cheap but effective!
One boy made a beatiful wardrobe complete with sparkly pipe cleaner coat hangers - his father had been an apprentice at the furniture fractory and still worked as an upholsterer.
I just love the detail by adding a lampshade with electrical flex and the beautiful cushions.
I really should go back and look at old photographs to remind myself, when projects are hard going, that I have been involved in some lovely and rewarding work.
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