Sowing Seeds is a project initiated by BA Fine Art students Emma Saunders & Duncan Wilson. The project aims to educate school children on sustainable living and healthy eating through forms of experimentation, exploration, enjoyment and play using the social form of gardening.

Having achieved funding from and with support from SIFE, Emma & Duncan are now working alongside the Students Union within the University of Plymouth and the Youth Offending service to create a vegetable garden within College Road Primary School.

Sowing Seeds is also in conversation with Diggin' It! allotment scheme Plymouth, to help inspire the children as to what they can grow. Through this blog Emma & Duncan hope to build an online community where College Road Primary School can converse with other schools with similar intentions including Mylor Bridge Primary School, Cornwall, where Duncan has initiated a similar project.

Thursday, 21 April 2011

A New Discovery!

This project is not just about gardening but also about looking into the social bond between people and how process based art can appropriate social forms in order to bring people together. Therefore i am planning to use famous paintings and artworks as the front covers of the art journals for each of the children. I have chosen to do this to try and evoke conversations about what art is, and the value and impact it has in todays society.

Today i have been looking through many artworks to pick some of my favourites for front covers, when i came across Giuseppe Arcimboldo. This painting 'Vertumnus (Emperor Rudolph II)' was created in 1590, and I love how he has depicted his subject through a variety of different fruit and vegetables.

This painting will be definitely the front cover to some ones book. Along with Arcimboldo i also plan to use works by well known artists Paul Cezanne & Vincent Van Gogh, but also more modern artists such as Patrick Caulfield, and the fabulous prints created by Angie Lewin.

Happy Gardening (particularly in this lovely weather!)
Emma  
Posted by at