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Sculpture Trail Cairn 2005 Schoolchildren will build a cairn of faces for “Cairn”.
Sculpture Trail Cairn 2005 Schoolchildren will build a cairn of faces for “Cairn”.
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Schoolchildren will build a cairn of faces for “Cairn”.15th April 2005A cairn of faces, made by the children of Bergh Apton’s local junior school, will feature in Bergh Apton’s fourth Sculpture Trail this year. The children, aged between 5 and 11, will create their own idea of a face (and perhaps their idea of their own face) in a sculpture workshop at Alpington and Bergh Apton C of E voluntary-aided School on Friday 15th April. Sculptor Maggie Campbell will run the workshop. The school’s children have been involved in all three previous Bergh Apton Sculpture Trails under Maggie’s guidance. Their work has included three-dimensional art: butterflies and fish displayed on a woodland walk (1999); and objet trouve mobiles hung in the boughs of an apple orchard (2002). The Trail project has, in previous years, involved only the senior class at the school but Maggie wanted this year to be one in which every child from the youngest upwards will have the opportunity to create and display a piece of art inspired by their own imagination. The individual clay figures will be used as moulds for plaster casts from which Maggie will create a cairn to be on display in the grounds of Bergh Apton’s village shop and Post Office for the duration of the Trail. “Cairn” is the theme of this year’s Sculpture Trail, to symbolise the role of the cairn in marking a path for us to follow and, in ancient times, a place where something special may happen. It is adopted this year by Bergh Apton to reflect that individual talents and contributions, no matter what their size and strength, create a strong and visible whole – a village of less than 400 residents that welcomes and entrances over 8,000 people in its lanes and gardens over three weekends of early Summer 2005.
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