Sandy Hollow School Sculpture day 5th August 2008 Australia

As part of my summer visit to the famous Hunter Valley in NSW Australia I was asked to come to the Sandy Hollow public school and give a day of sculpture to all the pupils there. There are 50 children in the school and we created two groups to give them all the chance to first make and play with clay. Something they enjoyed, having a freedom to explore any thoughts they had: then make a cast of either their hands or feet by pressing them into the clay and filling this with plaster which was later to be painted.

All in all it turned out to be a great day and I must add a massive thank you to my daughters Chloe and Jemima for their help with this one, my sister Rachel for setting it up and all the staff for lending a hand too. Rachel, as my sister and a local resident, could see the value of a day sculpting with MR Ben and it was great fun to be able to do this one day sculpting event. Everyone did a fantastic job and created a little piece of themselves to take home: the following images tell the story.