Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Marine Science / Contemporary Art

With the interest of the school, I then approached two local artists, Ian Penna and Georgina Maxwell, who have previously produced pieces of art using beach litter.
Ian Penna who is formally of Treleigh is very keen to engage with the school. He has mentioned that a piece of his art work called ’Garden, Skip of life 2009’ could be placed at Porthtowan to bring attention to what I am doing.
He has Given a few ideas for the art work that could be created where he has suggested a large beach clean up rubbish castle represented in the form of the standard kids sand castle or maybe a large rubbish bucket and spade, or found objects made to represent marine life/ biology. If there isn't allot of rubbish then he can improvise with reconfiguring what is normally found on a beach such as sand and stones.
Georgina Maxwell is renowned throughout Cornwall for her pieces of art relating to beach litter www.georginamaxwell.com, and is also keen, however funding for her time may be a slight problem. This is something that I will try to over come, with some sort of fund raising.
She has also suggested that a marine plastic installation could be built then hung in the school.

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