Grebes Sculpture Show

This half-term, artists in Grebes have been exploring the world of sculpture. They have looked at work by Anthony Caro (a British artist who made abstract sculptures out of scrap metal and found objects) and Ruth Asawa (an American sculptor who made wire sculptures. Children have learned about the spectrum of abstract and figurative art, ranging from completely abstract works which do not represent anything from the real world, to semi-abstract works which resemble or suggest real-world subjects, to figurative works depicting real-world subjects. Unsurprisingly, clay has been a favourite medium for our artists! They have sculpted a figurative human head, an abstract human head, a Green Man (after hearing the story in Forest School) and a self-portrait which could be as figurative or abstract as the artist chose. Grebes set up an art gallery in the classroom and invited children from other classes and their parents to view their clay sculptures.