Richard Deacon is an artist and sculptor who has created artworks using unusual materials such as steel, wood, plastic, leather and cloth.

He has used very thin ash (which is a type of wood) for his more recent works. He steamed the ash to a very high temperature so it would form coils, which look a bit like roller coasters or giant waves.

Look at his sculpture Restless in the picture above. What words would you use to describe it?

• Write down a list of words that describe the appearance of Richard Deacon’s sculpture Restless.
• Put some of the words together to make unusual or silly phrases like spaghetti hair for example.
• Carefully cut out long strips of your paper and card.
• Write some of your descriptive words or phrases along the strip, using different types of writing such as big, small, bubble writing or mirror-writing…you choose.
• Twist your strips of paper or card into spirals or knots.
• Join the ends of the strips with tape, glue or staples. (You might need an adult to help you are usinga stapler).