SCULPTURE FESTIVALS

Urban Learners curated ‘City Sculpture Fest’ around the 8th edition of Sculpture in the City (SITC). This incorporated a variety of day long drop-in activities for different creative learning styles including 5 workshops, 2 tour types, a treasure trail and a sketch board. The activities were situated in 4 locations in the City of London and explored the history, urban grain, sculpture and scale of each location in response to the London Festival of Architecture’s theme of identity. Artists, architects and engineers including Tatty Devine, Scale Rule, Archivate Collective, and members of the Urban Learners team each delivered aspects of the festival.

During the 10th Edition of Sculpture in the City, as part of the Mela Festival we facilitated the collaborative creation of a 3D installation in response to one of the artworks, ‘RedHead Sunset Stack’ by Almuth Tebbenhoff. 50 children and young people, aged 5-16 recorded their interpretation of the artwork and its surrounding context alongside their own self portrait on a 3D sketchpad ‘triptych’. Each young person hung their triptych on a growing structure, positioned opposite ‘RedHead Sunset Stack’ and took instant photos of their artwork to take home.

Alongside the 12th edition of Sculpture in the City we developed and delivered Children’s Sculpture in the City Tours and a drop-in family build workshop ‘City in a Sculpture’. 50 children (and their grown-ups) were guided along part of the family trail map designed by Urban Learners. The young artists responded to 5 sculptures and the urban spaces in-between, which included sketching the creature they imagined might live in Jesse Pollock’s ‘The Granary’ and exploring the texture and ancient stories of Ugo Rondinone’s ‘summer moon’. Simultaneously, 100 young people put their creativity to the test by making colourful 3D artwork of their City, nearby sculptures and themselves, before adding it to the collaborative and evolving ‘City in a Sculpture’ structure.