Friday, 1 August 2025

do you want to see a fabulous show?

Celebration is showing at the QUAD Gallery in Derby until 29th August 2025!

The exhibition showcases the creative achievements of children and young people from Virtual School and QUAD's Schools in Residence Programme funded by the Paul Hamlin Foundation's Arts-Based Learning Fund.  

I was delighted to work with an amazing group of year 3 pupils from Pear Tree Community Junior School! The group created these fabulous 'Semotion' flags, inspired by semaphore: a visual signalling method to convey information at a distance. 

Visitors are invited to select a flag and share their feelings - the semaphore alphabet is displayed and using two flags messages can be spelled out for others to interpret in the gallery. What would you share?

Big thank you to QUAD and Mandy McKirdy, Schools in Residence Producer.

Expressive mark-making on fabric using pencils, fabric pens & paint

Flags expressing feelings
 •confused •happy •fine •joy •proud •disappointed 
•scared •anger •love •jealous •sad •excited

Do you want to see a fabulous show?