east coasting for nippers
we were asked to design an activity sheet for younger visitors to the bawden and ravilious exhibition at scarborough art gallery. after a creative chat with ian, the learning manager for scarborough museums trust, we developed a series of activities that encouraged kids to explore the exhibition and respond with their own creativity.
the crab on the front echoed the exhibition leaflet and posters and provided the first ‘can you find…?’ activity.
the fisherman are inspired by a bawden linocut. the original tantalisingly doesn’t show the fruits of their struggles fishing off a pier but we thought that young kids would enjoy following the tangled lines to discover what each had caught.
the capital letters here are a copy of ravilious’s ‘nursery’ designs for wedgwood. we couldn’t resist spelling ‘cod’ underneath the fishermen. the capitals are also used on the exhibition information panels in the gallery and we hoped kids might spot those too and thus maybe read a little about bawden and ravilious.
the largest piece in the exhibition is a collage by edward bawden on a map of scarborough. we wanted to encourage young visitors to have a go themselves, so the centerspread is a contemporary map of the same area for them to decorate with their own whimsical beach scenes.
by the way, the title pun was a flash of inspiration by james – we tend to bounce verbal ideas back and forwards over our monitors and james hit this one first time i think.
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