| Prior Weston Primary School, Islington | ||
| The Great Fire of London 1666, ceramic panel in local historical timeline | ||
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| finished mural | pupils finding out how to get different textures in clay using household junk and odds and ends |
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| Wesley's Chapel, ceramic panel in local historical timeline | ||
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| Islington Suffragettes, ceramic panel in local historical timeline | ||
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Emmeline Pankhurst and the Islington Suffragettes | |
| The Blitz, ceramic panel in local historical timeline | ||
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| checking the collage for size in situ | making relief clay panel from the drawings | close up of the German planes dropping bombs onto East London during World War II |
| The Barbican, ceramic panel in local historical timeline | ||
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Emmeline Pankhurst and the Islington Suffragettes | |
| Maud Milton read to the pupils from Samuel Peyps' diaries, describing the
terrible sight of the Great Fire as seen from London Bridge. Peyps' descriptions of the pigeons falling
from the skies with their wings ablaze and of the ground being too hot to walk on for three days inspired
the pupils.They wrote short descriptions describing the fire. We collaged the most successful words into a
sentence of 82 characters to fit along the base of the mural. Maud worked with the pupils slabbing out clay to make the mural and the children brought in odds and ends, scrap pieces of cloth, broken toys, bits of Lego, wood, whatever they could find, into school. This was our tool kit with which the pupils translated their design into marks on the surface of the clay. The mural was cut up into pieces, fired and then was assembled and put up in cold December 2001. It will last for years and years. |
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