Creative Runcorn pupils from Hill View Primary School take part in Creative Halton recycling project

Sep 29 2011 Runcorn and Widnes Weekly News

Creative Runcorn pupils from Hill View Primary School take part in Creative Halton recycling project

A PROJECT involving an artist helping pupils create colourful creations out of recycled and everyday objects has been launched in Halton.

The Travelling Galleries project is part of the Creative Halton programme, a series of artists’ projects taking place across Widnes and Runcorn, supported by Arts Council England Partnership funding, and managed by Halton Borough Council.

Artist Kevin Hunt has been working with three primary schools – Brookfields in Widnes and Hill View and St Mary’s in Runcorn, to create the masterpieces.

The creations are portable and mobile exhibition spaces built using a variety of found or salvaged items such as wheelbarrows and wardrobes.

The children in each school developed their design ideas for their travelling galleries in workshop sessions with Kevin, who took them and built each school their own mobile gallery.

He also worked with pupils to create individual artworks to be displayed in the galleries.

Over the next couple of weeks the galleries will be arriving at the schools for display and then will go out and about in the borough to show off the creativity of the children and the artist.