Young Artist Sara

The first recycled materials that i want, to perhaps use in my Public Art piece, is water bottles, because then i can do many things with it like, cut up and makes different shapes, i can heat it up and make a range of different forms too. I could use metal as well, a complete different resource that would stand out from the plastic, it could go across the piece, or behind, middle.   Broken Glass, the broken bits going standing around the piece, or make the actual piece out of it. Pepsi, Ice tea tins are a good idea for the sculpture, the patterns on each one are varied and it could look good on my work, so could do half with plastic and glass and the other half with tins, so there's different patterns and a range of recycled materials. Rocks can be used just to put under the water, to make it more dynamic, i mean once the piece is done, then i need to think about what to put on the water too, so it doesn't look "empty".

In recent years, public art has increasingly begun to expand in scope and application — both into other wider and challenging areas of artform, and also across a much broader range of what might be called our 'public realm'. Such cultural interventions have often been realised in response to creatively engaging a community's sense of 'place' or 'well-being' in society. Such commissions can still result in physical, permanent artworks and sculptures. These also often involve increasingly integrated and applied arts type applications. However, they are also beginning to include other, much more process-driven and action-research based artistic practices as well. As such, these do not always rely on the production of a physical or permanent artwork at all (though they still often do of course). This expanded scope of public art can embrace many diverse practices and artforms. These might be implemented as stand-alone, or as collaborative hybrids involvin...

Christophe Gordon Brown is a Sculptor who work in Cambridge. "We use small lumps of Soap-stone which are easily carved, have lovely colours and polish up well. I will teach you how to imagine your form and how to carve it, or you can start off by following one of mine. All carving materials are provided. Bring a packed lunch for yourself. After the workshop, there may be room in the studio to work in your own time. To book a workshop or studio time contact me using the details below. I run introductory workshops on the first and third weekend of each month from 10am to 5pm. The cost is £70. Location CB4 3QS." says Christophe Gordon Brown "Great Arc" - £2700 "Hole in the Wall"- kilkenny stone "Ancient Man"- Hornton / £1500 "Modern Man"- Granite / £2000 The work is usually in stone.  Simplicity is the governing concept. The curve symbolises the fluid and dynamic aspect; the straight line the static, structural and orderly. ...

It's summer time, time to go relax, and have fun with friends and somewhere else. So i came on holiday to my country to visit family and friends and obviously the beautiful weather too, but just because i am on holidays, it doesn't mean i can run away from the Homework. The Summer Homework for Public art was to select three "Public Art" pieces and put together a double page per piece, that includes the following in our Public Art sketchbooks: Name of the Artist/ Designer Year the pieces were made Location of piece can include Photographs/ Drawings/ Descriptions. Materials We were asked to VISIT the Location of the pieces to collect Visual Evidence, drawings, photographs, notes, interview local residents on their views etc. Expected outcomes - three double pages, one per Public Art Piece in our sketchbooks. When i got to Portugal, i live in a city which is like 20 minutes away from Lisbon by boat, because city is the main City i thought it would be eas...