18 June 2019

Drawing Tuesday - British Museum

Most people were in the Captain Cook exhibition (Pacific Perspectives) in Room 91 (till 4 August) -
Headdress from New Caledonia by Mags

Ornamentation - including a tattoo collar - by Najlaa

Chief mourner's costume by Janet K

Contemporary embroidery drawn by Joyce

Maori signs by Sue

Japanese figure by Janet B

My canoe (it was a model)
 Tool of the week - a gamut of coloured pencils! -
 Extracurricular activities -
Judith finished last week's rained-out view of Southwark Cathedral

In his print Entanglements, drawn by Judith, John Pule reflects on the exchanges and interconnections that result from the arrival of Europeans

Mags' layers of mapping ...

... and some of her daily drawings. She also had been to an exhibition of work by Junko Oki, and seen a re-created Bronze Age boat made of planks sewn together

Najlaa too has taken up daily drawing

Janet K has been creating a parrot puppet for a school play

Sue has laid out fabric for freeform kantha stitching

2 comments:

Bea said...

Junior oki is fabulous. Thank you for the connection...

Margaret Cooter said...

Bea, she certainly is fabulous! On reading your comment I remembered that I'd intended to add a link to her website, but had forgotten to do that - it's there now!