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This activity pack is for all the family to do together when you’re out and about and back at home.

Each artSOUTH project has its own activity sheet

So go on an art adventure around the region and have some fun!

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Artworks are presented in different settings from galleries to more unusual sites including an ex-rocket testing site, a 1950s cargo steamship, a medieval hall and a beech tree circle!

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Win a Wii for your family! Take a photo of your family at three different artSOUTH sites and send them to [email protected] including your name and postcode to be entered into a prize draw in December.

If you were to make an artwork for an unusual place, what would it be?

Tell your idea to an adult – what ideas do they have?Draw or write about your ideas:

Artwork in a forest

Artwork ona boat


Claire Barclay has been inspired by the traditions of the seaside and the Punch and Judy show.

Can you draw your own Punch and Judy characters on the stage? Are they talking, fighting, cooking, or maybe eating?

This is Punch - one of the puppet characters of Punch and Judy:

An astronaut and a musician

A film director and a rocket scientist

Draw or write what you

imagine would happen

if these people worked

together:

Look at these different

collaborations...

She has explored the artSOUTH theme of ‘collaboration’ through workshops and performances. Working with a Punch and Judy Professor and students from Arts University

Bournemouth on a series of workshops and Punch and Judy show performances. The collaboration has been documented in a book.

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ClAIre BArClAyImprovIsatIons wIth tragIc and comIc consequencesvarious locations across the artsouth region


Have a go at collaborating to make a book together with the people you are with.Use the book to draw pictures and write about your shared day out. (Or you could make up an imaginary day out at the seaside.)

Fold the paper in half vertically

Then fold it in half again (If you open the paper at this point you should have eight equal rectangles)

Now, refold the paper in half vertically.

Hold each end and push the paper together. The slit you cut will open up to form a diamond shape. Keep pushing the ends together until they meet.

Tip: Try making a book with colourful scrap paper. You can also stick the loose edges of the pages together to make little pockets.

Open the paper up so it is folded once horizontally, then cut along the centre fold to the middle. Unfold the paper.

Now fold the pages together to make your book!

Fold the paper in half again horizontally

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Mel Brimfield Mel Brimfield is interested in the history of performance art; and in made-up characters, both in theatre and on television

Look at all the characters in this exhibition and then invent your own crazy character.

Draw them on the stage.

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Mel BrIMfIelddeath and dumbJohn hansard gallery, southampton


Colour in the picture of one of Mel Brimfield’s invented characters Willy little.

Can you write a short play or a silly song about Willy Little?

Look at these strange mouths.

Can you make the same shapes with your mouth?

What sounds come out when you change the shape of your mouth?


Graham Gussin worked with dancers to make a film at Longmoor Training Camp, which has an entire village used for practice by the army.

The film is shot at night using night vision combat cameras, which makes it possible to see in the dark.

Watch Graham Gussin’s film ‘Close Protection’.

Graham Gussin: Close Protection film still Longmoor Training Camp

Think about how it makes you feel as you watch it. Is the movement fast or slow? Do you think the movement would be different if they were in the daylight?

Fill the shapes below with words to describe the film:

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GrAHAM GUSSInclose protectIonwinchester discovery centre


Write about or draw a picture of an adventure you would go on if you had night vision goggles. Where would you go? What would you do and see? What do you think would be different or exciting about being able to see in the dark?

Some of the movement in the film is inspired by ‘Parkour’. An activity where people run, climb and jump quickly over buildings and walls.

Make yourself an obstacle course and find the quickest way of getting from the start to the finish.

You could use a large cardboard box and snake your way through it, make a pile of cushions to jump over or lay an old sheet on the grass and see if you can crawl all the way underneath it.

Can you solve the clues and write the answers in the crossword?

Across 1. moving to music 3. opposite of day 5. people that serve in the army

down 2. someone who makes art 4. somewhere you go to see art 6. seeing in the ....

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elpida Hadzi-Vasileva uses unusual natural materials in her art – for example, she has worked with butter, fish skins, trees, fir cones and watercress!

For this artwork she has used gold to decorate the trees, to celebrate the beauty of the living trees and bring new life to the others.

At the beech circle, draw the shapes made by the silhouettes - the outline shape of the trees. If it’s a sunny day see if you can draw the shadows of the trees.

elpida hadzi-vasileva gilding the trees how many trees can you count in the beech tree circle at mottisfont?

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elPIdA HAdzI-VASIleVAresuscItaremottisfont, national trust


elpida Hadzi-Vasileva often works with the natural materials she finds. Have a look around you in the gardens. Can you make a small sculpture with the grass, leaves, sticks and other things you find around you? Be careful not to damage anything, just use what’s lying around.

Take a photo of your sculpture and send it to: [email protected] or post on our Facebook page: artSOUTH.collaborations

Write a short story or poem about the Beech Circle and the gold patterns. How does it make you feel, can you describe it, can you hear the wind in the leaves, what creatures might live there?

The patterns on the trees are taken from the Whistler Room inside the house.

Colour it in, or add your own pattern to this one.

Why not share your story or poem on the artSOUTH Facebook page?

My Beech Circle story/poem:


Tell the story or draw a picture of the cardboard room. How does it make you feel? What do you think might have gone on this room? Where have all the people gone?

Rocket testing at New Battery© National Trust

Artist Tom Hall making his installation

Artist Tom Hall has collaborated with ex-employees of The New Battery on the Isle of Wight, a site that tested rockets as part of the British Space Programme in the 1950s and 1960s.

The artist enjoys using diff erent kinds of materials. Here he has used cardboard to make a full-size model of one of the rooms at the site.

You can also see a giant cardboard rocket made by Tom Hall as part of the‘Chasing Sputnik’ exhibition at Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight.

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TOM HAllmIdnIghtnew battery site, the needles national trust, Isle of wight

Design and draw your own rocket

At home, see if you can make your rocket design out of cardboard. Send a picture of your cardboard rocket to [email protected] post on our Facebook page: artsouth.collaborations

One of the rockets tested at the New Battery site was the Black Knight

If you were up in space looking down at a planet what would you see? Draw the Earth or an alien planet here.

Did you know?

The satellite ‘Prospero’ was launched from a Black Knight rocket - see if you can fi nd the satellite near Tom Hall’s installation and draw it


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Sit in front of an object or painting in the gallery, look really hard at the details for 1 minute (time yourself).

Have a go at drawing all the details really carefully and slowly.

Have a go at this crossword

Picons Basic 1 Version 1.2 (2013)

Jeremy Millar is an artist that is interested in all kinds of things including art, music, the history of different places and people, photography and museums.

For this project the artist has filmed Father Nicolas Spencer in the skilled job of binding an old book called L’Oblate at the Quarr Abbey monastery on the Isle of Wight, where the monks live and work.

Across 1. What you watch at the movies 3. Father Nicolas Spencer does this 5. The title of the artwork

down 2. Person who lives in an Abbey 4. Opposite of noisy 6. Rhymes with ‘baking‘

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JereMy MIllArthe oblatesouthampton city art gallery


The monks work each day alongside prayer and other duties at the monastery.

The jobs they do are helpful to the community.

Ask your family or a friend what you can do that is helpful to them, and do a useful task for someone today.

Bookbinding can be a very skilled job, but there are simple ways to bind books, too.Have a go yourself at home.

Fold sheets of paper and nest them inside each other.

starting from the inside, wrap the ribbon around the outside spine and back inside the book.

thread the ribbon into the middle hole. push it through to the outside of the book.

position the ends of the ribbon so that they are on opposite sides of the ribbon on the spine.

tie the ends together and make a bow to finish your binding.

cut away the top and bottom corners and a triangular hole from the middle of the spine.

thread string or ribbon through the middle hole.

Today, I helped:

with:

(name of person)

(write what you did)

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Annika Ström has created huge sculptural letters for the Great Hall, which spell out the phrase ‘look the other way’.

The work encourages people to explore their surroundings in new ways and to think about history of the building.

The artist has worked with the Department of Performing Arts at University of Winchester to create a performance that relates to the sculpture and the word ‘look’.

Look around all the stained glass windows in the Great Hall

How many shields in the windows have animals in them?

Can you draw some of them in these shapes?

Write a short story or poem about an

adventure the animals would have if they could

come alive and look around The Great Hall.

It is interesting to fi nd new ways of looking at the world around us.

Try these:

Look behind you

Look the other way

Lay on the fl oor and look up to

the ceiling

Put your head between your legs

and look upside down!

The Great Hall is full of history.

Can you fi nd the oldest date on the wall?

Can you fi nd out why the ‘Wedding Gates’ were made?

Can you fi nd the trap door in the fl oor?

Who is said to have met around the Round Table?

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AnnIKA STrÖMlooKgreat hall, castle avenue, winchester

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start by drawing a big block letter on corrugated cardboard and cut out.

trace a second letter exactly the same and cut that out as well.

To do at home:Have a go at making your own 3D letters. How about trying the fi rst letter of your name?

Have a go at drawing your favourite word or a funny phrase in 3D! Here’s how to do it:

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use polystyrene cups or cardboard kitchen roll tubes and cut 5 or 6 to the same height and glue to one of the letters.

when dry, add glue to the edges of the cups, and make a sandwich with the second letter.

cover the letters again, but this time with coloured tissue paper and glue.(use watered down pva glue).

you can then paint or decorate your letters or just leave it the colour of the tissue paper.

use masking tape to cover the edges of the letter, so that it makes one complete shape.


Artist Bouke de Vries is interested in old and broken objects and conservation. For this work he has used broken pots and vases from diff erent museum collections around the region.

Look at the work of Bouke de Vries.

Can you draw a picture of his work here?

Look closely at the patterns and shapes on other objects or paintings in the gallery.

Draw a pattern that you like here.

Choose an object in the gallery or museum.

Who do you think owned it? What was it used for? How old is it?Write your thoughts here:

Look at the work of Look at the work of Bouke de Vries.Bouke de Vries.

Can you draw a picture of Can you draw a picture of

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BOUKe de VrIeSmemory vesselssouthampton city art gallery aspex, portsmouthst barbe museum, lymington


By cutting and sticking pieces from the ‘broken ceramics’ sheet make a collage to fill in thisoutline drawing.


As you walk to the shelter, describe the different things you see around you.

1. Look up above you2. Look at the ground3. Look to the right4. Look to the left

Take it in turns to choose something you see and describe its size, colour, texture, shape and maybe even the smell!

Susanne M Winterling has worked in collaboration with an architect to create an architectural sculpture on the seawall at Keyhaven Nature Reserve in the New Forest.

The shelter is a place to stop and rest and look out over the beautiful landscape.

Keep looking and listening. Can you spot any insects, birds or animals? Try drawing them...

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SUSAnne M WInTerlInGshelter (lIghthouse oF FragIlIty)

lymington-Keyhaven nature reserve

When you get there, sit in the shelter very quietly, don’t talk, just listen for 1 minute (time yourself!)

Collect the sounds you hear by drawing or writing them down in these shapes:

Picons Basic 1 Version 1.2 (2013)

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Play a game of ‘Eye Spy’

“I spy with my little eye, something beginning with ...”

If it’s a clear day can you see The Needles on the Isle of Wight?

Design and draw your own shelter on the landscape below:

Think about: What would it look like? How could you make it blend into the landscape?

shelter designby susanne m winterling & ström architects

“I spy with my little eye, something “I spy with my little eye, something

Salt was made by gathering seawater in shallow lagoons, known as salterns and letting the water evaporate to leave the salt!

The Lymington-Keyhaven Nature Reserve contains the best preserved examples of these old salt workings in southern England.

Did you know...Have a go at making a small model of your shelter.What will you make it out of? – Paper, card, plastic, or maybe wood?

Take a photo of your shelter and send it to [email protected] or post on our Facebook page: artSOUTH.collaborations

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