Collaborative Artwork

Collaborative Artwork celebrating Age Concern Auckland’s 75th anniversary

In celebrating Age Concern Auckland’s 75th anniversary we will engage marginalised older people and connect them to the younger community by art making in an open participation format from community places such as Library, Schools and others. The aim is to build community through art, by setting in motion an open-ended process through the use of local clays. This gives the participants an opportunity to experience a direct tactile, sensory and conceptual response to notions of nature, impermanence and interconnectedness to each other, to place and also through the decades with art stored in a time capsule.

The proposed project consists in creating and building components for a final public art work/ installation through hands-on workshops where each participant will create a clay bowl from. They symbolically place into the bowl their hopes and dreams and share their stories while making. Bowl examples will be stored in a time capsule which will be opened at the 100th Anniversary of Age Concern Auckland.

The final installation would consist of a final participatory instalment of the clay vessels, creations on a “blanket” of pigments/soils locally sourced. This will be extensively photographed and clay art pieces, photographs and video along with the participants’ declared hopes and dreams will be put in the time capsule to be opened in 25 years time.