29 – 31 July 2024 – A Food themed Summer School

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Our Young Curators recently took part in a summer school hosted by Ibukun Baldwin, where we worked together to complete the curtain for The Dining Room. Ibukun met up with the Young Curators to start developing some design ideas for the curtain (find out more below!) before deciding to create a forest of trees that all grow our favourite foods.

She designed and drew the forest at full scale using prints and motifs designed by the group during their workshops together, and this was printed onto a huge curtain ready to be hand finished during the summer school.

On the first day, we decided on our favourite foods that we wish grew on trees, and developed designs for a Tandoori chicken fruit, a donut fruit, a prawn fruit, a steak fruit, sandwich fruit and an ice lolly fruit. Ibukun had created a simple three step process for printing onto the curtain, starting with a stencil of full colour, lino printing on a layer of detail and then finishing it off by stencilling on our leaves. She helped the group to design their fruits and then create stencils.

Over the three days of the summer school, we stenciled our food fruits onto our chosen trees, printed over them with the lino cut details and the leaf stencils to create a forest full of food trees.

Ibukun also developed some activities making soft toys and patches, so that our Young Curators would have something to take home with them and learn a variety of different techniques for working with textiles.

On the final day, we held a celebration and everyone was rewarded with a certificate for taking part. The curtain is a permanent commission for our new Dining Room space so their designs will be enjoyed by visitors to the gallery for years to come!