Giant Jewellery: Multimedia Response to Yayoi Kusama 

By Clare Boreham Kerr

In this resource, specialist art teacher Clare Boreham Kerr shares a project inspired by the colours and patterns used by the artist Yayoi Kusama. This multimedia activity uses a range of materials, including sketchbooks, to make colourful giant jewellery. Clare works in special educational needs education, but this project could be translated across a variety of settings.

This three-part project can be split across three or four sessions. Beginning with sketchbooks and drawing, pupils will move onto collage and 3D work, finishing off with a session dedicated to construction and reflection.

A constructed necklace made with wire and paper


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