British School 17th century, The Cholmondeley
Ladies
circa 1600-10
© Tate 2005
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Cutting Edge Families
September 2004, Tate Britain
For this workshop, families made collages of themselves. Everyone
worked together and put their pictures up on the wall to create
a giant portrait of all the families visiting Tate Britain. The
workshop was led by an artist called Cordelia Underhill who creates
large collages of her own family using the paper from billboard
advertisements. We also looked at portraits of families painted
hundreds of years ago, like these two ladies who had babies on
the same day.
Using rolls of old wallpaper, we cut out shapes of clothes. Then
we drew on hands and shoes. Some children looked at magazines
and cut out pictures of shoes to stick onto their designs. Other
people cut out large eyes to stick onto their faces. One family
decided to do a whole family history and include grandparents,
aunties and cousins.
Top tips!
- Think about what your Mum and Dad wear, what kind of hair your sister or brother has, whether anyone in your family wears glasses, etc. Do the people in your family have large or small facial features? What colour are their eyes?
- Think about what kinds of patterns clothes can have. Does your Gran wear a flowery dress or a black trouser suit?
- Use magazines to cut out items of clothing or facial features like eyes or ears.
- Use papers with unusual patterns and mix them together so they clash.
- Try to use your scissors to cut out interesting shapes and effects. Make fringes for hair by cutting into the paper.
- Use reflective paper to create mysterious characters like 'Green Tom'.
- How will you place the figures? Will your paper family be waving or walking?
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