Welcome to the Cambridge Museums and Botanic Garden Big Draw Gallery
Saturday 6 to Sunday 28 October 2007
pArtworks 
Join in with the biggest-ever game of museums and galleries ‘Consequences’!
Consequences is a drawing game which mixes up parts of different things to create something completely new and usually quite weird.
The Cambridge University Museums, Botanic Garden and the Folk Museum contain all sorts of wonderful objects waiting to be mixed up! Can you imagine a creature with the legs of an Egyptian mummy, the body of a penguin and the head of a T. rex? Or how about a tree trunk for legs, the body of Hercules and a head from a totem pole?
Use the links on the left to explore the many free events taking place during the month of October. Check back to see the creative results displayed in this online gallery.
Details of all Big Draw events can be found on the Big Draw website
Want to have a go at the Consequences game at home? You can download the instructions and drawing worksheet in PDF format (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) using the links below:
Polar pArtworks - Saturday 6 October 2007 at Scott Polar Research Institute Museum
With biscuits for heads, maps for bodies and feet from an emperor penguin, Polar pArtworks created zany creatures inspired by the coldest places on Earth.
With artist Lara Sellen to inspire and encourage them, visitors created sledging flags from paper and wool. Sledging flags from the great Polar explorations of the past not only helped make sledges easier to see at a distance, but also gave a sense of pride, loyalty and belonging to the sledging teams. Penguins, polar bears and other objects from the collections of the museum adorned the designs of the sledging flags by visitors exploring the museum...
"I brought my grandchildren. We all had a terrific time." |
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"Opportunity for grandpa, mum and children to do something together." |
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Picture Perfect - Saturday 13 October 2007 at Cambridge and County Folk Museum
Vacuum cleaners, clay pipes and Victorian toys are just a few of the artefacts that inspired children to create the most fantastic consequence people at the Folk Museum.
Artist, Juliet Docherty helped the children to make the most dazzling frames for their creations made from all sorts of materials, the end results were amazing!
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"What a wonderful idea, making the frame for there picture just completes a fantastic idea! Thank you" |
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The Lab of Senses - Saturday 13 October 2007 at University Museum of Zoology
Below are some of the creative results of workshop sessions with artist Dino Alfier. Click on artwork images to see larger versions.
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pArtworks and Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination workshop - Saturday 20 & Sunday 21 October 2007 at Kettle's Yard
Artist Alex Hirtzel led our full day of drawing on Saturday 20 October. We worked on long rolls of paper in both the house and gallery and created stories for objects that appeared repeatedly on their adventures through jungles and across oceans.
On Sunday 21 October, we held a Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination workshop with artists Anne-Mie Melis and Sally Brown. Working on a massive sheet of paper in the Education Room, we drew birds in charcoal and graphite, responding to the exhibition Henrik Hakansson: Three Days of the Condor.
Click on artwork images to see larger versions.
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Palaeo pArtworks - Saturday 27 October 2007 at Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences
Artist Sarah Blake led a relaxing and focussed day of drawing for all ages. Working in black on white and white on black we created some beautiful monochrome pictures of fossils and minerals found in the Museum. We learned about using charcoal, chalk, gel pens and pencils to create different effects in our work. We also played the pArtworks drawing game and invented some amazing mixed-up fossil creatures.
Click on artwork images to see larger versions.
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"My 4-year old grandson wanted to draw some dinosaurs. He was fascinated." |
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"We will definitely keep coming to the Sedgwick and look forward to more fun activities." |
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