Comments from our friends at Beulah Resourse Base

Nicky

I really enjoyed working with Calum he was my friend. I taught Zoe and Calum to make signs for football & it was a lot of fun!

Vijay

I impressed my day staff with my sewing skills. I was happy to join in on the day of the exhibition to help all the students to set everything up. It was “alright”.

Denise

I made all food for the BBQ out of plastercene. I liked working with the students and going to the BRIT school. I had a nice day at the art exhibition and my carer the “old one”, came to see it and I was proud!

Nishi

I had an amazing time working one to one with the student. I love to express myself through art and my day centre staff learnt more about me seeing how clever I was at doing the art on my own. I love working with plastercene and took some home.

Shirley

I miss working with the Brit School Students & playing all the games as well as doing the art. I got on so well. I really enjoyed the art exhibition looking at my work through the binoculars.

Dawn

I like working with Jen on my own. I liked working my aeroplane model. I really enjoyed the party and exhibition we had here and my worker from my home came to see my work. Dawn could not stop smiling and laughing when giving her feedback.

Sally

It was good doing the art. I liked working with Holly making plaster casts for my pigs and painting them. I took one of the pigs home with me for my mum and dad to see. I liked working with the Brit School and seeing all the students who are now my friends. I liked playing the games at the end of each week specially hide and seek. I was sorry not to be at exhibition but I was sick.

Marie

I enjoyed making the different parts for my art. I worked with Sam and I liked him. I enjoyed it because now they are my friends. I liked doing my art about cakes as that is my favourite food!

Lisa

The feedback from all the clients is that they really enjoyed the art being displayed here and they all had a great day. As for me, I thought that your students showed great maturity and great diversity skills to communicate with the clients to bring out the best in them and make the art work fun. I would love to work with other students from the Brit School in the future. I would like to wish the students a great future in what ever career they wish to pursue and I also want to wish you all the best in your future job role.

Celebration Day!!!

Celebration day was a very good day in which we were able to show off all of our work we have completed, either the collaborative work with the clients or our own work, the day consisted of setting up our work; showing the clients the installation and then showing the audience our installations. The installations worked well with the audiences, they would walk up to the installations and interact with them more than the group thought they would. The installations were sensory, which meant in Nikki and my installation the audience could see the set and watch our animation, taste and smell coconuts, hear Carribean music and feel the sand in their toes. It was so proud of what we achieved!!! 

The final slice of cake!!!!

Celebration day was really good, we had to come in and take all our props and things for the installation to Beulah. It was fun setting it up and getting my installation to make sense. Marie was really excited to see all the things she helped make in one art piece. Marie really loved her boat and she seemed like she was having fun. I met her carer for the first time, it was nice meeting her she told me a few thing about Marie. I used a plastic blue sheet for the sea and then poured sand on top of the blue sea to create the beach. I bought a cake for the installation and people who came by ate it as part of the art.

People from other classes came to see the show, they found it interesting and people enjoyed themselves. Allot of food was eaten to keep people in good moods. I am so pleased i got to work with the adults at BRB, it was such fun collaborating with both my peers and the adults. 

Celebration Day!!

Today we had a very early start to begin loading up our props and travelling to Beulah.Once we got there we cracked on and started builing our installations , i started of my decorating and laying out my table , VJ and Marie helped me so much they put out the bowls and cups and were eally excited to see the outcome.I also worked together with Zoe and the Beulah staff who helped me move the tables and lay out the cloth.The adults looked extremely excited when i un packed all my food and drink , I had some trouble with where and in what way to hand my wallpaper , in the end we decided on 2 rolls on two sides of the table , appose to the original plan of 1 roll on all four sides.Zoe and Laura helped loads on attaching the wallpaper to the floor and ceiling.I then put up the amazing bunting me and VJ created and he was so happy! After ths i put up my photo frame and projected my animation inside.In the end i had help from so many of the adults and girls form the other class to blow up lots of balloons and it was in place.

When the students from the other art classes came in they looked really excited and seemed very intrigued on the work we and the adults had produced , they played with my prty poppers had nibbiles and walked around in interest.

Packing away i decided to let VJ keep some of the items made.Pverall the experience turned out so well and i am extremely proud of the sdults and staff at Beulah , my students and teachers and myself for bring this amazing oppurtunity nd show together.

Celebration Day!

This week has been really busy as we've been working hard to finish our props. However all of our hard work was worth it as today was our final celebration day! We got to school for 8am to load the cars and begin setting up our installations. I had problems with hanging my windows which meant I had to use velcro instead, it was such a relief when the windows finally stayed up and I was able to continue putting up the rest of my props. 

Dawn couldn’t believe her eyes once she saw it was all finished and her aeroplane memory had come to life. She was excitedly showing everyone and making sure that they sat down, ate a sweet, wore a lifejacket and held the fan to get the full aeroplane experience. I got a lot of positive feedback  about my installation which made me and Dawn really proud of what we’d achieved. The overall experience of the day was truly successful and everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves. 

It was sad to say goodbye to all the clients as I’ve really enjoyed working with them and watching them learn new artistic techniques. We’ve all said we’d love to go back so I’m sure we’ll see them again soon!

FINAL CELEBRATION

Today was absolutely wonderful, i haven't had that much fun in ages. Yesterday i had this big feeling that everything was going to go wrong because i didn't really think through how i may keep the frames standing, but luckily once i got to the space everything was ok, because i found a load of flower pots, that were heavy enough to keep the frames standing through out the exhibition. What was nice was the minute i stepped into the space, Nishi came in to come help me out, it was lovely, because i know that if i was in her shoes i wouldn't get involved because i would know there is a lot to do.
We began by putting up the back drop, which was a challenge in its self but thanks to Nishi and Peter, it was up in no time. But then we thought we should move it against the door so it was facing the audience, this was a lot better because the light shined through the painting bringing it alive. Nishi loved the background and began sifting through all the other things i had made, for example the reindeer, which was a hit all after noon. My aim was to make the whole installation as cluttered as possible and the final touches did the job, for example the flowers and the cotton wool. Nishi helped tying the string onto the snow balls and putting the frames up.
Even though Nishi, doesn't say much, i knew she was proud of what she had done and to be honest i am really proud of her too, she works hard and she just gets on with the task, but not in a negative way, but a happy positive way.
Once the installation was up me and Nishi stood by it with carrots in our hands to give to the audience who wished to see our work. I could see Nishi had a little grin and was enjoying all the happy faces who would come to see our collaborative piece.
Even thought the window had fallen down and the snow balls, everything went fine and i think everyone enjoyed themselves. Thank you Beulah for such a wonderful time, and i hope i will bump into you guys at an exhibition at some point in the future.

Celebration day

Today started well, in my eyes. We were all on time and got to BRB with enough time to set up. When I started setting up I saw the piece almost come live and fit together like it was made for the space I had chosen. As Shirley walked around and popped her head through the door way, she couldn’t help but love what it looked like. As I was short for time I just got on with setting it up. This if I could do it all again I would have included her more so she could feel, even more a part of the final piece. When it was all set up and running, Shirley couldn’t wait to take people in and show them around “her work” it made me smile that she took so much pride in what we had made together. I changed a few things while setting up, like the placement of the cannon and where the chair for everyone to sit on was.

When people were walking round, I felt like they seemed to understand and enjoy the animation and installation. But I felt like it could have been done to a higher standard, but for the time we had and what we had to do in that time, I feel that me and Shirley did a great job. If I would do this whole project again, I would try and make her tell me another story, because for me ‘Peter pan on ice’ was to simple and I couldn’t work with it as much as I would have liked to.

All in all I have enjoyed working with the adults from BRB a lot and learnt more than I thought I ever would, Shirley will always be a big part of this year and my art experience. I will miss her a great deal, and will look forward to any other community art projects I do.

This has been one of the best projects iv done this year thanks to a great group, teacher and the adults of BRB.

Celebration Day

The day started well, me and my peers where organized and packed everything we needed to head off to BRB. When we got there we started unpacking our things and began to set up out sensory installations. I brought a cloth for the table , the fake food and the real food as well as plates and tissues. The bbq was already in the space so I only needed to set up the table where I would have the food.
I got a table from in the space to bring outside and started to decorate my space in how I imagined. After I finished I showed Denise and she couldn’t stop smiling and kept telling everyone that she made them. Her being happy with the outcome put me in a good position to be positive about my installation as I wasn’t sure about it at the beginning and also hearing feedback from my peers of how it looked good also gave me a boost.
I was initially going to make real food on the bbq as well, but when I asked one of the volunteers she said it wasn’t working, so I used the fake food instead and improvised which worked well. I put spatulas around the bbq and put the fake food on plates and tissue to make it look realistic.
When I played my animation on the monitor my whole installation came together and I was proud of my final outcome.
Denise was also excited and glad to see her name in the animation.
I am very happy to have worked with her. She taught me a lot of things such as patience and the whole theme of collaboration. We worked as a team, and together both of our work and ideas pulled off to be a great sensory installation and the feedback I got from friends made me even happier .

workshop 4

In this lesson we continued to work on objects for our final installation, this lesson to me was the worst lesson I have had in this workshop so far.
I felt like I had and was just repeating what I did last week, And also because I was very unmotivated. In that case it made it very hard for me to keep up, with Shirley’s high energy level. Also because this was the last lesson with them I felt as if I had too much to do in such a short amount of time.
In the end we got through all the tasks I had set myself and set her, for this lesson. But I felt as if I could have done more in the time given. This has taught me a lot though, because it shows me that not everything is easy and straight forward.
If you wont to do something properly then you have to go through good and day days.
As always I was very happy with the work she did and she still manages to surprise me.

Workshop 4

Continuing working collaboratively, me and Denise started to paint our objects for the installation . She enjoyed painting and was proud to see the outcome.

Once again she didnt hesitate to start working with me while having a chat.

She was patient with me when i was trying to get the right colour and painted faster than me, which made me realise her excitment in creating them.

I also learnt to be patient with her when she was putting too much paint on the sausages so i told her in a calm manner and she willingly listened to my advice of how to paint them.

Workshop #4

On wednesday i started working with my wonderful new partner , V.J.We started by working on my "birthday" bunting. V.J painting some amazing colourful shapes and patterns onto the ready cut fabric triangles, we had loads of fun doing this and talking and getting to know eachother.We then moved on to sewing a seam across the top of the triangles that had been folded over , i soon discovered that he was extremely good at hand sewing and he got on with it straight away and fast working! After that we started making wrapping paper, V.J painting his colourful patterns and me painting wacky faces and flowers made a really fun paper to wrap my gifts in. im looking forward to seeing the finished product next week and i hope V.J enjoys it too!

Wednesday

It was good on wednesday, Marie made some oars for the boat that i starte making after. We started by having 2 polls that i cut earlier on that day and painted them in lesson with marie. i then cut out the shape for the end of the oar and then marie painted them brown. I showed her how to mix the colour brown, and her painting skills seemed to be really good the marks that were made were perfect. I am looking foward to next week.

Final Workshop

The Final workshop was a very good use of time, unfortunately my partner Nikki wasn't in but i got all of the work done including making and painting my coconuts, palm tree, seagull and sun, i also completed my backdrop which consisted of three strips of fabric sewed together using the sewing machine.