These are some of the projects from Voksen School, Oslo, where I taught taught from 2006 to 2020
60th anniversary project 2018
We celebrated Voksen School’s 60th anniversary by inviting every pupil, teacher and assistant at Voksen school to participate in this project, by contributing two pixels to the image: a drawn self portrait and a written wish for the future. All the teachers involved with Art & Craft at Voksen school collaborated to realise the project. The children run from a black & white past to a colourful and green future.
60th anniversary project details
Self portraits and wishes for the future
Sustainability linocut project
A year 7 project 2018/19 promoting sustainability by visualising the environmental paragraph (112) from the Norwegian constitution.
Delivering the poster to parliament (Stortinget)
Every pupil whose visualisations were used in the poster came along to personally deliver the poster to the relevant politicians. The article I wrote on the experience was published in FORM, the magazine for art teachers in Norway.
The Voksen Elk
Every single pupil, teacher and assistant at Voksen school had the chance to participate in this project, which greets visitors at the main entrance to the school. 10,200 milk carton tops were used.
The Voksen Elk
Main entrance lobby
Star signs
The computer room, where the curtains are often drawn. The installation allows many thousand pinpricks of light, but no more. These were made by drilling in plywood
Star signs (detail)
Made 2009 with a year 6 class.
Oslo 2044
A cross-curricular project looking at town planning and architecture. The council plans to build Oslo higher, closer and greener. This is our vision of where we are going
Oslo 2044 (detail)
Close up. Made in 2013-2014 with year 7.
Class pictures 1958 – 2018
Every class picture that has been taken is on display. My colleague Ann Mari Gulbrandsen organised all the pictures, I made the frames.
Targets for (snow)balls
Two of several groups of targets
Wise words project
To celebrate Voksen School’s 50th birthday Sissel Zack and I invited every class (21 in all) to come with suggestions for sayings relevant to the school. These were then turned into ceramic tiles by the pupils, with our help. The framing was my work. Again, every pupil was involved (approx 550).
Wise Words project
Translation: The most beautiful flower in the world is the smile
Wise Words project
Lobby of years 4,5,6 block
Wise Words project
Translation: we reach out a hand in friendship
Wise Words project
Side entrance to main building
Wise Words project
Translation: Knowledge nourishes the soul
Wise Words project
Gym. Translation: courage in your breast, sense in your head, steel in your bones
Wise Words project 2008
Corridor outside wood workshop. Translation: A rushed job is a ruined job
Wise Words project 2008
Outside the music room. Translation: practice makes perfect (literally: practice makes a master)