View Tube Art: Sparked 2011-12
Inspired by the public art pieces in the London 2012 Olympic Park, Sparked is an eight-month educational exhibition series as part of the View Tube Art Education programme, from October 2011-May 2012.
The View Tube sits on The Greenway in East London, next to the London 2012 Olympic Park, it is a community arts and education venue, with a cafe and bike hire.
Sparked is funded by The Legacy List, a new charity established to support the long term cultural, social and physical regeneration of London’s future Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and its surroundings.
Sparked is supported by Bow Arts
The View Tube and Container Cafe are closed for a well earned Christmas break from 24th December. We’ll be back bright eyed and bushy tailed from 3rd January 2012, where you can catch the last few weeks of Tomas Klassnik and Riitta Ikonen’s exhibition ‘From Factories to Flowers’, as part of the Sparked exhibition series.
Some of the seed cards and seed garden matchboxes created by those who took part in Sparked’s first family day on Saturday 3 December. The artists, Riitta Ikonen and Tomas Klassnik, plus the volunteers helping out were kept busy all day with a constant stream of families taking advantage of the free art workshops on offer. Many asked for more sessions to be available at View Tube, lucky for them, and you, we’ve got two more Family Days coming up in 2012!
Vincent (6) & Alfred (8) making seed cards at View Tube’s Sparked Family Day
We saw over 50 people through our art workshop sessions with Olympic artists Riitta Ikonen and Tomas Klassnik. We’ll post up more photos soon, but a massive thanks to everyone who came down, the volunteers that helped out, the stall holders at the Christmas Market and Museum of London Docklands, who bought some fascinating artefacts with them found at the park.
Don’t forget, you can still get involved with the exhibition by downloading an activity sheet before you visit View Tube!
Don’t forget, before you head to the View Tube, you can download the activity sheet here, which accompanies the current Sparked exhibition, with Tomas Klassnik and Riitta Ikonen.
Once you’ve completed the form, come here and check your answers in the featured post in the blogs right column. Take a photo, or scan your photos and email them to viewtubesparked@gmail.com so we can put them in our online gallery. Don’t forget to put your name, age and postcode in the email!
Extract from activity sheet
Pick up an activity sheet from the Sparked exhibition at View Tube, or download it here before you go. You can check your answers back here, plus email us (at viewtubesparked@gmail.com) a photo or scan of your drawings to add to our online gallery - don’t forget to include your name, age and postcode!
Activity sheet drawing sent in by Millie (aged 6)
Carry on reading for the activity sheet answers only!
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Answers from activity sheet - only peek if you’ve already done it!
1. There are 8 buttons in the grey sculpture. Buttons are present in the sculpture as their used to be a Haberdashery and fabric trimming company on the site, using ribbons, buttons, wool, snaps and string
2. A dog can be found in the sculpture. This is because there used to be guard dogs on the site, protecting the business and people who lived there.
3. Send in a photo or scan of your drawing of the trapeze artists, who used to do circus training on the site! viewtubesparked@gmail.com
4. A woodwork fabricator company used to produce replica Victorian cabinets and tables, as well as beautiful Grandfather Clocks
5. There are all sorts of flowers of different colours, we’ve listed a few below, but send in any different ones you have to viewtubesparked@gmail.com and we’ll add them in!
- Red flowers: poppy, rose, tulip, red gerbera daisy, red lily, red orchid, red carnation, peony
- Orange flowers: Bird of Paradise, tiger lily, snapdragon, gerbera, marigold, chrysanthemum, freesia,
- Yellow flowers: sunflower, daffodil, tulip, rose, Hawaiian hibiscus, orchid, Queen Victoria Calla lily, carnation, cornflower, forsythia, iris,
- Blue flowers: lavendar, forget-me-nots, pansy, blue-bells, hyacinth, cornflower
- White flowers: daisy, rose, camellia, hydrangea, gerbera, magnolia flower, jasmine flower, lily of the valley, hyacinth, cherry blossom
6. The seedbrush (or biological drawing device) is made from willow
7. There are 29 seed dispensers on the ‘biological drawing device’. Some have been refilled, whilst others are now empty from their previous journeys, which you can watch here
8. Send in a photo or scan of your drawing of your own flower to go up in our online gallery. Don’t forget to include your name and postcode! viewtubesparked@gmail.com
This film accompanies the Sparked exhibition with Tomas Klassnik and Riitta Ikonen. Filmed on location in Greenwich Park, it shows the artists with the ‘seedbrush’ in action. The seedbrush now forms part of the exhibition at View Tube, open until 22 January.
Film by Emma Crouch.
Listen to Tomas Klassnik and Riitta Ikonen talk about their Sparked exhibition and the Fantasticology project that inspired it.
Don’t forget the Sparked Family Day this Saturday 3 December at View Tube, 10am-3pm. Free art workshops, a Christmas Market, object handling with Museum of London Docklands and all the usual View Tube activities.
An important element of the Sparked project is to provide free art workshops to families, inspired by the current Sparked exhibition. For our inaugural exhibition with Tomas Klassnik and Riitta Ikonen, we are delighted to announce that View Tube will host the first family day on Saturday 3 December.
Families will work with world class artists Riitta Ikonen and Tomas Klassnik on a take away model seed garden inspired by their exhibition.
Art workshop times: 10.30am - 12pm or 1-2.30pm
Limited spaces available so email info@theviewtube.co.uk to book art workshop spaces and find out more. The workshops are aimed at accompanied young people under 16years, or older if you just want to have fun!
There’s also a Christmas Craft Market, discovering treasures from the park with object handling from the Museum of London Docklands, festive foods and all the usual View Tube activities.
If you would like a stall at the market, please contact viewtubesparked@gmail.com
Tomas Klassnik & Riitta Ikonen and their ‘biological drawing device’, Nov 2011
The installation for the Klassnik/Ikonen Sparked exhibition at View Tube, opening on November 25th, has begun.
Our new flyer for the first Sparked exhibition with Tomas Klassnik and Riitta Ikonen, which opens on 25 November 2011.
