Brockley Corridor Public Art Project » COLLABORATION

Positive meeting with Brockley locals

Tom Pearman — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 14:23:03 +0000

Great meeting with Moira form Brockley Max http://brockleymax.co.uk and Ian Brimacombe, at Jam Circus http://jamcircus.com , both locals to the project and offered some generous links for me to investigate in regard to the locations of the artworks….more news to follow…

Beecroft School badges…

Tom Pearman — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 11:44:19 +0000

more info….

Stillness Junior School badges…

Tom Pearman — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 11:43:44 +0000

more info….

Stillness Junior School

Tom Pearman — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 10:41:43 +0000

Below are the wonderfully graphic artworks that the pupils produced…some appear to be on their side but this how some of the final artworks will appear….

….from Colleen Scotland, Year 4 Leader,

“Stillness Junior School would like to say a big thank you to Tom for allowing us to take part in this fun and creative opportunity. The children thoroughly enjoyed working alongside him, and exploring creative ideas. We appreciate the talent and time taken by Tom and we are thrilled to have worked alongside him for the day.”

“We took part in the art project a public artist came in and we created some badges. We chose a box template and then drew a clean air poster. Tom printed our design onto the boxes. This was a really creative session and I liked being taught more about pollution.” – Jack 6PO

“The art project was a fun project. We brainstormed our ideas and then created our boxes. It was an excellent opportunity to put our ideas into the community for our local area. It was a great event.” – Khaled 6PG

Beecroft Garden Primary School

Tom Pearman — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 10:41:20 +0000

Below are the wonderfully graphic artworks that the pupils produced…

..some appear to be on their side but this how some of the final artworks will appear….

and some comments from the children:

The project helped inspire me to send an important message to the community – Brooke, year 5

It was great working with Tom because it got us using art ideas in a pop art way! Jessica, year 5

Raising awareness was a really important part of the art! Arena, year 5

I couldn’t wait to see our badges and I’m really looking forward to showing my parents. Emerine, year 5

My eyes popped out when I saw my work on Toms website! Lucy, year 5

Tom is awesome! He got us exploring ways of turning art into messages, like adverts! Queenette, year 5

I don’t normally use rulers for drawing in art and it was fun and different working with Tom. Shari, year 5

We got to really think about the kind of colours to use to draw attention to our message! Karine, year 5

This is going to give out a message to the whole Brockley community. It’s so exciting! Samuel, year 5

local school collaboration

Tom Pearman — Wed, 01 Apr 2015 08:44:10 +0000

To date, Tom has had an extremely productive and creative time collaborating with year 5 and 6 pupils of two local primary schools,

Beecroft Garden Primary School

Beecroft Rd.

Stillness Junior School

Brockley Rise

The following is a summary of the session’s aims and full details of the session plan can be downloaded here:

tom-pearman-public-artist-architectural-brockley-artist-CREATIVE SESSIONS BROCKLEY CORRIDOR PUBLIC ART COMMISSION May 2015

WORKSHOP TITLE: ‘Pop Art badge making to promote cleaner air quality’

PROPOSED THEMES: Employing the aesthetics of pop art and commercial advertising to promote cleaner air and green modes of transport along the Brockley Corridor area of Lewisham.

DETAILS:

Employing the aesthetics used in Pop Art and commercial pin badges, Tom will aim to create a series of badges with the target groups using a badge making press.

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular culture such as advertising, news, etc.

Pop art often takes as its imagery that which is currently in use in advertising. Product labeling and logos figure prominently in the imagery chosen by pop artists, like in the Campbell’s Soup Cans labels, by Andy Warhol. Even the labeling on the shipping box containing retail items has been used as subject matter in pop art, for example in Warhol’s Campbell’s Tomato Juice Box 1964, (pictured below), or his Brillo Soap Box sculptures.

Using these bold visual styles Tom will explore with the target groups how clean air topics can be presented as a brand or a logo. These topics will be used to ‘decorate’ a series of cardboard boxes that they will make. The children will then photograph these finished boxes and these photos will provide the imagery for a series of badges that they will make….

The Cleaner Air Topics that can be explored could include:

Environmental issues such as:

Cleaner air quality targets

Air Pollutants and what causes them

Greener modes of transport / Vehicles, Engines and Fuels

Benefits of environmental awareness

Climate change

Pollutants from domestic and Industrial Sources

Production of texts and slogans for a ‘green’ campaign.