Press Release
1 July 2004
TRAFALGAR SQUARE TRANSFORMED FOR CHILDREN'S ART DAY CELEBRATIONS
Trafalgar Square will host a giant interactive art workshop on Sunday 4 July as one of the hundreds of special events planned across the country to celebrate Children's Art Day.
Activities in Trafalgar Square will take their inspiration from the flower imagery of fourth-plinth sculptor Marc Quinn, transforming the urban landscape of the Square using gardens, flowers and plant-life as the theme. Artists will help children explore ideas such as 'Planting Seeds', 'Floating Gardens', 'Insects' and 'Garlands' through interactive workshops in four marquees around the Square. An arbour for storytelling at the base of Nelson's Column will also host an ongoing programme of green themed street arts and performance with Heir of Insanity's 'Treeo' and Neighbourhood Watch's 'Giant Butterflies'. Workshops will include making floating lotus flowers for the fountains, paper garlands for the balustrades and making an animated film.
ARTWORKS Young Artists of the Year Awards and Children's Art Day were founded in 1999 and are initiatives supported by the Clore Duffield Foundation, Britain's leading grant-giving trust in the field of art education. The ARTWORKS programme has developed as the most dynamic and innovative programme of advocacy, research and grant-giving in the field of visual arts education in Europe. For more information about all the projects organised by ARTWORKS go to www.art-works.org.uk
Children's Art Day in Trafalgar Square is supported by the Clore Duffield Foundation, The Mayor's Office for London and Creative Partnerships.
PRESS ENQUIRIES ERICA BOLTON/JANE QUINN 020 7221 5000
