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Artist Claes Oldenburg made a sculpture called "Wedding Souvenir" which consisted of 250 slices of plaster cake. Yum!

 
     

1. What is the strangest piece of sculpture you have ever seen?

2. If you were going to make a piece of sculpture about food - what would you make? What would you make it out of?
     
Artist Alexander Calder made a tiny set of mobiles which fitted into a cigar box. But there are sculptures smaller still...
     

3. What's the smallest piece of sculpture you've see?

4. If you were going to make a very small piece of sculpture, what would it be...What would it be made out of?
     
Not all artists have been trained to be artists. If you've got an imagination (and we all have one of those) you can make art!
     
5. When did you last make something, or draw something when you really used your imagination? What was it that you made?
     

Artist Helen Chadwick made sculpture from melted chocolate - a bubbling fountain which filled the gallery with the smell of cocoa.

Helen Chadwick also made sculptures using flower petals and household liquids such as washing-up liquid and Flash!
     
6. Have you seen any sculpture made from something really strange?
     

You can't always recognise what sculptures are meant to be! Sometimes they remind you of something...maybe an experience, a place, a memory or a person. Often they will remind different people of different things...and often there is no wrong or right way of looking at a sculpture.
     
7. Imagine walking into a gallery and seeing a sculpture which was actually a pile of sand! Can you imagine what your first reaction would be?
     
Sculpture can be anywhere! Not just in galleries and museums, it's often on the streets, in forests, on hillsides, in homes...
 

8. Where is the most unusual place you've seen sculpture?

 

Christo and his wife Jeanne Claude wrapped islands in Greater Miami, Florida. They also wrapped whole buildings and bridges - sometimes spending years planning their sculptures and involving teams of people to help create them.

People often think of sculpture as being solid, but sculpture is also about space.

Try making a three-dimensional drawing by twisting a piece of wire into a shape.

Alexander Calder made a whole circus, with acrobats, dancers, lion tamers - all from wire.

Sculpture can speak for itself! Pupils gave a grey school chair a completely different personality by covering it in fur fabric and tinsel.

If this chair were a person, or animal, what would it be called? What would its character be like?

This "installation" (sculpture which was made out of a whole space) was made by building four "rooms" out of canes and paper. Groups of children had a room each, to turn into sculpture.

Pupils agreed on themes, for example "scary room" "hypnotic room" "peaceful room", and then made objects which helped give the rooms their character.