Juniors create sculpture to mark Black History Month
To mark Black History Month earlier this term, Junior School pupils welcomed artist Faith Bebbington to Stockport Grammar as they worked on a collaborative sculpture.
Faith’s idea was to create a giant hand comprising of small people that the children made. It was inspired by Maya Angelou’s poem ‘And Still I Rise’.
In pairs, pupils made figures to contribute to the artwork. The figures were quite large to begin with but got smaller the lower down the hand.
In addition to the figures, Year 6 pupils created lettering whilst the younger children completed the background stripes.
The older year groups also discussed the connection between the arrangement of the 3D figures and the slave ships cramming enslaved people in, and the significance of the colours she had chosen.
The whole project involved the input of over three hundred Junior School children.
Sixth Form Art students and the Senior School Inclusion Prefects also dropped in to help out.
This initiative was kindly sponsored by the Stopfordian Parents’ Association.
