Arts and Minds: Constructing the World with Collage

By Sheila Ceccarelli (artist) and Yael Pilowsky Bankirer (Psychotherapist)

This was the seventh session at Cambourne Village College as part of the ‘Young People’s Pilot’, coordinated and managed by Arts and Minds, a leading arts and mental health charity in Cambridgeshire.

Back to “Heart-Work” Arts and Wellbeing Project

Collage - Cambourne VC - SC

 

Introduction by Sheila Ceccarelli

Following on from Expressive Monoprinting on a Big Scale, students were invited to use their prints to construct large scale collages inspired by the landscape surrounding the college.

Collage - Cambourne VC - SC

 

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