Inspired by Turner Prize winner Rachel Whiteread’s work 'Embankment', we created a sea of cardboard boxes in our Participatory Gallery.
Visitors to the gallery were inspired by the invitations to move, build, touch, explore, balance and even crush the boxes!
As the perfect antidote to Christmas and with memories resurfacing of the amazing imaginative potential of the simple cardboard box visitors created all sorts of games and structures including;
• One little boy made a race track and encouraged his mum to zoom around the space.
• Lots of people had competitions to make the highest towers of boxes.
• Dancers from the Movers and Shakers group really moved and shook the boxes! They said that they loved being in the inspiring space of the gallery and the boxes provided versatility to their session.
• When the exhibition needed taking down ready for the next exhibition, one of our regular groups acted as human box crushers… dancer Hayley Beecher said that she would count down from 10 and give a one word instruction, all they had to do was follow the instruction… 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 CRUSH! And so they did…