Mirror box

Grafton Primary School, London

Year 5 (9 and 10 year-olds)

The children worked with their class teacher and the school's artist-in-residence and writer-in-residence to create this multi-sensory mirror box, entitled 'It Starts to Rain...' To make the figures inside the box, the children learnt to translate a 2D image into a 3D free-standing structure using modelling techniques. Here, they used wire and plaster bandage.

To make the soundtrack, the children visited the National Gallery and wrote freely in writers' notebooks in front of Renoir's painting. At school, fragments of their writings were selected, rehearsed in small group voice sessions and recorded. The rainy soundscape evolved from a writing and drama workshop.

Click here to listen to the 'Mirror box' soundtrack.

Tessa Garland (Artist-in-Residence)

© Grafton Primary School. Photo: The National Gallery, London.