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Collaboration key to Daedalian designs
Whole school involved, as well as the talents of artist Sue Flowers and Daedalian Glass, one of the country's leading exponents of artistic glass design.
An extension to Dallas Road Primary School in Lancaster sparked-off an inclusive idea that provided a link between the old and new school buildings, whilst involving the whole school, as well as the talents of artist Sue Flowers and Daedalian Glass, one of the country's leading exponents of artistic glass design Taken together, they made it a totally co-operative effort culminating in an artistic glass artwork that is unique to the school
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 10 May 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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With Daedalian based at Poulton le Fylde and Sue Flowers at Carnforth, it was all very much a combination of local talent that brought to fruition an original idea put forward by the Chair of the school governors, Angie Kay.
This was to express the excitement felt by the completion of the extension, which now houses the school's reception classes, library, administrative offices and main entrance, whilst encapsulating everything that is special about the school.
From the outset Sue Flowers worked with all 420 pupils aged between 4 and 11 years and their teachers developing symbols they felt were representative of the school ethos.
Presentations to the School Council followed, where children from each class explained the ideas and meanings behind their symbols, which were made up of words and images.
An established custom at Dallas Road School is that Year 6 pupils leaving the school leave a gift behind, hence in a sense they took over final ownership of the project and made the final decision through a series of workshops guided by Sue Flowers.
In addition to that, however, their parting gift was 60 glass nuggets each bearing the name of a departing pupil and set into the side panels.
With Sue Flower's and the pupils' creative input providing the initial key elements, another was the artistic interpretation Davia Walmsley and her team at Daedalian added to ultimately turn ideas into reality.
"What was very satisfying about this commission was the close involvement of the children," said Davia Walmsley.
"This was accentuated by a visit they made to our workshops to see the processes that would make their work reality.
"It made the whole thing so much more worthwhile to see their excitement and genuine interest in everything that was going on.
And who knows, we might have inspired one of them to take up glass design in years to come".
Adding to these comments, Sue Flowers said : "The active involvement and engagement of the children in the ethos and the thinking that went into the artwork was hugely important as we were actually making the school's policies come alive through visual art.
"Art had, in fact, stepped out of the classroom and had become relevant to citizenship issues, group development, debate and mathematics.
"Then, when we began the fabrication process with Davia Walmsley, we were looking at aspects of technology, science, and manufacturing as well as the creativity and collaborative richness she brought to creating the window.".
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