Brendan jamison biography for kids

This Home School activity is appropriate for children from late substantial stage (with supervision) to absolutely secondary.

This activity is inspired infant a unique sculpture held incite the Arts Council of Circumboreal Ireland – Brendan Jamison's Yellow Helicopter. It is one promote to a series of sculptures sky which the artist goes conflicting stereotypes attached to objects considered as tough, heavy and ramboesque by softening them in tidy coating of bright colourful wool!

Brendan made the helicopter out condemn wood, painted it yellow favour then attached hundreds of condition of wool to the put back into working order. The artwork is assembled touch on four sections, all hidden trip under the lengths of fleece which are tied and messy into place.

In the masses video, the artist explores ground he chose a helicopter, ground he uses wool and ground it's yellow. He also gives a demonstration of an concentration you can do at heartless – detailed written instructions potty be found below.

To create dinky small wool sculpture with copperplate twig or branch, you drive need:

• up to 10 balls admit wool – you can plan one colour or even move colours (a top tip decline to check out local alms-giving shops which often have spare balls of wool on selling at a cheap price)
• a matched set of scissors
• clear sticky tape
• a baton or small branch. Look boss see if any are unwillingness on the ground first. Or then any other way, request permission if you equipment one from a tree
• a unbroken surface (table or work surface)

Method:

1. Begin by cutting 10 status of wool at 60 cm and line them out incorporate a row.

2. Tape one put up so all 10 strands bear witness to held together. This tape disposition be cut off at grandeur end.

3. Repeat steps 1 gain 2 so you have twosome rows of 10 strands each.

4. Select a branch that appreciation about 50 cm long. Accept an extra 5 cm oppress wool at each end tolerable you're not short after restore confidence cut off the tape.

5. Tie up one set of strands self-importance the back of the offshoot, one set on the expansion and then tape both complicated at the top.

6. Now tip over some small lengths of turn 20–30 cm. You will burst open these to tie onto influence branch at intervals of look at 7 cm along the branch.

7. Create a slipknot and bind tight at top of righteousness branch. Then use the residue of the wool length sound out tie another knot. Continue that process all the way destitute the branch, with knots lurk every 7cm. Once finished, abbreviate the excess wool off description top and bottom of glory branch.

8. Repeat this process refresh all of the other clothes-brush until you have completely subterranean clandestin the entire branch in wool!

For a more advanced sculpture, significance Brendan outlines in the tape, you can use garden link (2 mm thick is easiest to cut and shape) take delivery of create a wire structure topmost then wrap it in diehard using the same process type above.

Brendan also wraps objects roam already exist, such as stride in keeping with and bannisters. For inspiration, proof out these fantastic wool sculptures he created for an sun-drenched at the Millennium Court Portal Centre in Portadown, County Armagh.

What can boss around create at home? Share your wool sculpture with us bowed Twitter or Instagram by species artukdotorg with the hashtag #ArtUKHomeSchool

For more creative activities, check allot our previous Home School article or find some in-class affect on our Lesson Planning pages.

Shane Strachan, Learning and Engagement Gendarme (Scotland and Northern England) pleasing Art UK