‘Dawn Chorus’ by Marcus Coates

Contemporary artist Marcus Coates created an extraordinary and compelling piece of work showing humans mimicking bird song. He filmed ordinary people in domestic, social and work settings imitating the songs from a variety of birds and exhibited the performances as an installation piece at Fabrica, as part of the Brighton Festival 2015.

fabrica.org.uk

Marcus Coates is also represented by the Kate MacGarry and the Workplace Gallery – click on the links for more information about the artist.

This is a sample of resource created by UK Charity AccessArt. We have over 1100 resources to help develop and inspire your creative thinking, practice and teaching.

AccessArt welcomes artists, educators, teachers and parents both in the UK and overseas.

We believe everyone has the right to be creative and by working together and sharing ideas we can enable everyone to reach their creative potential.

Brave Young Makers: Year Three Pupils at Ridgefield Primary Transform Materials into Birds and Insects

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Priscilla the Puffin: Make a Simple Bird Mobile

Download the Template for Priscilla here:

Making and Drawing Birds

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In the Company of Birds

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Rowan: Making a Clay Bird from a Mould

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Sculptural Birds in Flight by Teenage Makers

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Printing at Battyford Primary, Inspired by Hester Cox

‘Flock’ at Prospect House School, Inspired by Veronica Lindsay-Addy

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drawing birds with mixed media: creating effects with oil pastels, crayons and ink washes

‘Dawn Chorus’ by Marcus Coates

Colourful Sculptural Birds by Pupils at Donhead Preparatory School

Priscilla the Puffin: Make a Simple Bird Mobile

How to Make a Simple Origami Bird by Melanie Johns

Paper Pidgeon Project

‘Birds in the Trees’ by Pupils at Battyeford Primary School

Brave Young Makers: Year Three Pupils at Ridgefield Primary Transform materials into Birds and Insects

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cantus articus (Concerto for birds and orchestra) Op.61: Images Inspired by Music

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Colourful Sculptural Birds by Pupils at Donhead Preparatory School

Pattern and Collage: A Whole School Workshop at Monkfield Primary School

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Making Sea Sculptures at Culford School, Suffolk

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Many thanks for teenagers at AccessArt’s Experimental Drawing Class and their parents as well as teachers from Garden Fields JMI School, St Albans for inspiring this post.

Happy sketchbooking and have a wonderful summer!

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‘Dawn Chorus’ by Marcus Coates

This is a sample of resource created by UK Charity AccessArt. We have over 1100 resources to help develop and inspire your creative thinking, practice and teaching.

AccessArt welcomes artists, educators, teachers and parents both in the UK and overseas.

We believe everyone has the right to be creative and by working together and sharing ideas we can enable everyone to reach their creative potential.

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Printing at Battyford Primary, Inspired by Hester Cox

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‘Dawn Chorus’ by Marcus Coates

Colourful Sculptural Birds by Pupils at Donhead Preparatory School

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