Art that travels: stories, land and journeys
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Why this why now
Each lesson centres on transformation: paper becomes sculpture, maps become textured stories, clay becomes travelling figures, and patterns become sails filled with meaning. Alongside sensory exploration, pupils encounter stories from the Silk Road to West Africa, reimagining borders not as lines but as pathways of exchange. The unit honours how ideas and materials travel, celebrating art as a shared language of place, journey, and belonging.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Experience cutting out shapes
- Pupils have explored simple shaping in clay
- Pupils have used crayons or pastels
Why this why now
Each lesson centres on transformation: paper becomes sculpture, maps become textured stories, clay becomes travelling figures, and patterns become sails filled with meaning. Alongside sensory exploration, pupils encounter stories from the Silk Road to West Africa, reimagining borders not as lines but as pathways of exchange. The unit honours how ideas and materials travel, celebrating art as a shared language of place, journey, and belonging.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Experience cutting out shapes
- Pupils have explored simple shaping in clay
- Pupils have used crayons or pastels
Art that travels: stories, land and journeys
Made in collaboration with October Gallery, this unit explores how art shares stories across time and place as pupils cut, sculpt and collage maps into textured journeys of movement, exchange, identity and belonging.
4 lessons in unit
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