Karl Chilcott

Over the last five weeks we have been lucky enough to have the artist Karl Chilcott work with Year 4 to not just help us make a town out of wood houses but to teach us more about wood and sculpture and for the lack of a better word becoming 'one' with your materials.

We started off learning about each other, our likes, dislikes and things that are important to us. Karl shared what he does and why he does it. He also talked about his installations in nature and how he gets his materials and why (he contacts the roads and traffic authority and takes wood that has been cut down by them during road maintenance etc). Above Karl wanted to demonstrated that different types of trees have different wood. Each type of tree's wood has a different feel, smell, weight and sound. By giving out different varieties of wood Karl turned our class into an orchestra. 

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after all the hard work, ready to paint our houses.