ROCK PAPER SCISSORS Anna Paterson 1 September 2023 – 30 August 2024 Back Anna Paterson worked with 13 primary school classes over the Autumn Term to explore the destruction and repair of paper using hole punches, pins, pencils, nails and hammers. Remnants from workshops were swept up, collected, collaged and passed through a laminator, culminating in a collaborative paper patchwork. This process mirrors Anna’s practice which explores the interplay between making mess and clearing up, as forms of image-production. This work was collated into a collaborative artwork installed in one of the lightboxes outside, as part of the of ROCK PAPER SCISSORS: A Snapshot, a trail of exhibition inion installations around Drawing Room. This work made by over 300 children will eventually be bound into a book and housed in our Library. For the first Family Studio of 2024, Anna experimented with mark-making onto kitchen towel with food colouring. These artworks were then transformed into colourful birds and used as shadow puppets! Over 3 days in the May Half term Anna Paterson delivered a holiday club with a group of primary aged children to explore how drawings can made by playing games! The children created drawings by using chance printing experiments, inky bamboo sticks and rolling golf balls in ink! The holiday club ended with an exhibition where the children curated their own table space with their drawings and artist’s books! Anna Paterson is an artist who works exclusively on paper to fold, rip and puncture. She graduated from BA Fine Art at Central St Martins and a Post Graduate Diploma from the Royal Academy Schools London. Selected exhibitions include: Wastebook, Mackintosh Lane, London (2022); Dream 1, Vermland, Copenhagen (2020); All About My Mother, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2016); and Cuts, Shapes, Breaks and Scrapes, Seventeen Gallery, London (2016). Thanks to all involved: Beatriz, Fareenha, Ivy, Louay, Melissa, Niyah-Rose, Nyah, Sami, Tayla-Shaè, Ziya-May: Holiday Club children. Children & Staff of Year 3, Boutcher Primary School Children & Staff of Year 2 & Year 4, Charlotte Sharman Primary School Children & Staff of Year 1, Grange Primary School Children & Staff of Year 2, Kender Primary School Children & Staff of Year 1 & Year 2, Phoenix Primary School Children & Staff of Year 2, Robert Browning Primary School Children & Staff of Year 3 & 4, Snowsfields Primary School Children & Staff of Year 3, St George’s Primary School Children & Staff of Year 6, Towerbridge Primary School Anna Paterson, Artist Asha Fontenelle, Workshop Assistant, Drawing Room Betsy Dadd, Learning Curator, Drawing Room Genevieve Miller, Learning Coordinator, Drawing Room Jesse Ajilore, Workshop Assistant, Drawing Room Solomon Williams, Workshop Assistant, Drawing Room Will Nicholls, Workshop Assistant, Drawing Room Scrapbook It's not often we get the chance to do something like this with the kids, away from the pressures of reading, writing and maths, so to sit back and watch them create was just pure joy. Katie Stevenson, Teacher. I felt calm and peaceful thoughts. Year 2 child The class enjoyed making shapes and creating their final pieces. It was nice seeing some children who are shy, enjoy the session and show resilience throughout. Lisa-Marie Burnett, Teacher. As you get older you practice becomes heavier, or slower. I felt enlivened by how children made their work. Anna Paterson, artist.