Project: Food Inventor
School: Harbinger Primary. Commissioned by: Rob Smith, Bow Arts-Lead. Lead Artist, Designer, Maker: Paul Hearn. Assistant Artist, Maker, Buyer: Ruth Caig Performing Artist: Marigold Hughes contributions from Food designers Bompas & Parr
‘Food Inventor’ was a unique, exciting project commissioned by Harbinger Primary School for their Year 1 + 2 children. The project was designed to expend on the children’s term topic ‘food’. Bow arts where brought in fuel there imagination and give them an experience they will never forget.
The scene was set with the children’s first encounter with Dr Malinky ‘The Food Inventor’, played by Theatre Centre’s Marigold Hughes. At her first visit the children delve into their imaginations and came up with some weird and wonderful food creations that could later be develop and bought to life in her lab.
Once school finish for the week our work began, transforming the school’s stock room in to the Lab where the children’s ideas could become reality. Lead by artist Paul Hearn, we set about building a magical immersive space that the children would discover and explore independently from their teachers, creating a space for them to meet up with the Food Inventor once again.
Small groups of children where led up to the top floor of the school and left at the lab door. Here they were left to their own devices to enter a new and undiscovered world.
Crawling in to the darkened Lab children were greeted with smells of tangerine and chocolate, the sounds of rock and roll music and the sight of an edible chandelier. As they explored the lab they discovered a surreal place where reality and fantasy merged. Were chocolate shoes and iced foot balls seemed an entirely plausible reality. As they continued journeying through the lab children crawled through tunnels and traveled through a fridge door. Behind the fridge door they were final greeted by Dr Malinky. In her cozy hide out she shared with them her magical recipes and stories, and tasted her ideas juice and latest invention.
The Food Inventor’s Lab remained in place through to the end of June enabling all the whole school to experience the space.
‘Food Inventor’ was a unique, exciting project commissioned by Harbinger Primary School for their Year 1 + 2 children. The project was designed to expend on the children’s term topic ‘food’. Bow arts where brought in fuel there imagination and give them an experience they will never forget.
The scene was set with the children’s first encounter with Dr Malinky ‘The Food Inventor’, played by Theatre Centre’s Marigold Hughes. At her first visit the children delve into their imaginations and came up with some weird and wonderful food creations that could later be develop and bought to life in her lab.
Once school finish for the week our work began, transforming the school’s stock room in to the Lab where the children’s ideas could become reality. Lead by artist Paul Hearn, we set about building a magical immersive space that the children would discover and explore independently from their teachers, creating a space for them to meet up with the Food Inventor once again.
Small groups of children where led up to the top floor of the school and left at the lab door. Here they were left to their own devices to enter a new and undiscovered world.
Crawling in to the darkened Lab children were greeted with smells of tangerine and chocolate, the sounds of rock and roll music and the sight of an edible chandelier. As they explored the lab they discovered a surreal place where reality and fantasy merged. Were chocolate shoes and iced foot balls seemed an entirely plausible reality. As they continued journeying through the lab children crawled through tunnels and traveled through a fridge door. Behind the fridge door they were final greeted by Dr Malinky. In her cozy hide out she shared with them her magical recipes and stories, and tasted her ideas juice and latest invention.
The Food Inventor’s Lab remained in place through to the end of June enabling all the whole school to experience the space.