Collage Sculpture featuring NZ artist Peter Madden: Art and Craft for Kids by Rob the Art Teacher

What is “collage sculpture”? What do Wunderkammer, women's 19th century scrapbooks, Dada, Surrealism, Mycorrhizal networks, and an old pair of shoes have to do with each other? My new video is the first part in a NEW series of online sculpture lessons for elementary (primary) school, middle school, and high school students. This lesson is ideal for remote learning and home-schooling, or the classroom. Each sculpture lesson focuses on different ways of thinking like a sculptor, and in this video, we learn about the HISTORY OF COLLAGE, and New Zealand contemporary artist PETER MADDEN (b.1966). Each sculpture lesson includes a real sculpture activity to help students learn about creating their own sculptures in the style of a famous artist. All this, with materials any child will be able to find at home, and in any weather!
Lo-tech sculpture learning can be loads of fun! Most recently I have been teaching sculpture to children aged 9 to 13 years in a small primary school with no specialist art room or sculpture-making facilities and little storage space. The challenge is to provide the kids with hands-on art experiences rather than simply teach ‘about’ sculpture. I think it is important to make it real, and to make the learning experience something they can see mirrored in artists’ actual practices.
So, these in-school circumstances without ‘ideal’ facilities simply meant I had to get creative devising ‘real’ sculpture projects. Then the COVID-19 lockdowns began, and rolled on and on, month after month, so I doubled down on the inventiveness in creating sculpture lessons for online learning. Now, I am sharing my lesson ideas here because the feedback I’ve had from my children has been encouraging.
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IN MEMORIAM: PETER NICHOLLS (1936-2021)
“Collage Sculpture” is dedicated to the memory of my dear friend, former teaching colleague, and renowned New Zealand sculptor Peter Nicholls who passed away the week I was producing this video. “Kua hinga he totara i te wao nui a Tane” (a Maori whakatauki / proverb expressing deep sadness over the passing of someone of importance, with the words: A mighty totara has fallen in the forest of Tane)
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Looking for more of my online sculpture lessons? Check these out:
“One-minute Sculptures as a School Project (Parts 1 and 2)”
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• Learn One-minute Sculp...
“Lego-Minecraft #stayathome Sculpture Project”
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“So small, too tall, gigantic and well wrapped” 4-part sculpture series:
“Part 1 Miniature Worlds” • Miniature Worlds. Art ...
“Part 2 “The Tower Challenge” • The Tower Challenge. A...
“Part 3 “Supersize Your World” • Supersize Your World, ...
“Part 4 “Wrap it like Christo” • Wrap it like Christo, ...
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ARTISTS FEATURED IN THIS VIDEO (listed in order of appearance):
Peter Madden (b.1966)
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Levinus Vincent (1658-1727)
Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625)
Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605)
Olaus Wormius (1588-1654)
Unidentified American collage artist (active 1880-1890)
Mary Watson (active early 19th century)
Adele Schopenhauer (1797-1847)
Unidentified French silk artist (mid-19th century)
Hannah Höch (1889-1978)
Eileen Agar (1899-1991)
Richard Dudley-Smith (photographer)
Grete Stern (1904-1999)
Robert Delaunay (1885-1941)
Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Pauline Boty (1938-1966)
Johanna Goodman
Nigel Cattlin (photographer)
Tidy Designs
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MUSIC:
This video uses the music “Dreams” from www.bensound.com
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Rob Garrett is an accomplished art teacher, writer, and curator. With fine art and art history degrees from leading New Zealand Universities, he is a qualified teacher with experience teaching art to all ages, having worked in primary (elementary) schools, high schools, and higher education art schools (academies), including a time as the Head of New Zealand’s oldest art school, in Dunedin. His international work with artists has included directing and establishing artist residency programmes, managing New Zealand’s presence at the 2005 Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art, and curating numerous public art exhibitions, festivals, and city-wide programs.