ROCK PAPER SCISSORS Lucie MacGregor 1 September 2021 – 31 July 2023 Back Images 4_ice drawing_1 (1) Lucie MacGregor’s projects on ROCK PAPER SCISSORS have investigated the afterlife of drawings. Together with children, teachers and families she has explored how scraps can be repurposed and transformed. Over the Spring Term 2022, Lucie MacGregor worked with Year 2 Planet Earth Class on a ROCK PAPER SCISSORS in-school project at Grange Primary School. Children made drawings, masks, doodles and notes to express their emotions. These were then used as ingredients to make hand-made forms out of ripped up and pulped drawings! The abundance of drawings and papier mâché shapes were collated into a series of experimental books, which became the surface for further writing and drawing. Lucie handed out double-sided posters at the end of the project, which invited children to pin up at home and continue drawing onto the printed images. The Expanded Scrapbook was part of the ROCK PAPER SCISSORS Teachers’ Assembly series co-delivered with Lucie MacGregor and teachers Rosemary Hall and Olivia Abrahams. School staff experimented with folding, stapling, tearing and tying as methods to bind paper, considering how ad-hoc book-making could be used in the classroom as a playful tool for learning. Lucie MacGregor’s Family Studio prompted children and parents to shred drawings into a cement mixer and make forms out of the papier mâché. An off-site Family Studio was co-delivered with Assemble Play at Mudchute Farm on bonfire night. Families used home-made charcoal as drawing tools, drew with flames and sent drawings up in smoke! As part of our ROCK PAPER SCISSORS Artist Forum, Lucie is co-lead a session with artist Amy Rose Barnes, finding connections between their practices and to share learning from recent projects with other artists and team of Workshop Assistants. This collaboration developed into a Family Studio in June 2023 inviting families to experiment with mark making on top of projected drawings, and fabric surfaces, a week as ripping up their drawings into paper pulp. For the final Family Studio hosted at Charlotte Sharman in July 2023 Lucie set up a space for drawing, photocopying, and making paper sculptures! Lucie MacGregor is a multi-disciplinary artist from West Yorkshire based in London. Recently commissioned by Deptford X Festival and Volunteer South London, Lucie’s art-making spans sculpture, drawing and ceramics – in material conversation. Lucie brings together alternative ways to consider drawing, as something permeable and reforming. Thank you to all involved: Children of Year 2, Planet Earth Class, Grange Primary School Akhera Williams, Workshop Assistant, Drawing Room Betsy Dadd, Learning Curator, Drawing Room Funke Hammond, Teacher Assistant, Grange Primary School Genevieve Miller, Learning Coordinator, Drawing Room Misty Ingham, Learning Curator Maternity Cover, Drawing Room Neville Haye, Playworker, Assemble Play Penny Wilson, Playworker, Assemble Play Rosemary Hall, Teacher, Grange Primary School Shanaz Ali, Workshop Assistant, Drawing Room Sofi Tilahun, Workshop Assistant, Drawing Room Solomon Williams, Workshop Assistant, Drawing Room Varv Varv Teachers’ Assembly Graphic Design Scrapbook Their energy is bubbling away from having to sit still when doing other subjects. This allows them to move and let it out. Rosemary Hall, Teacher Art is what you make without judgement. Lay Lay, child. Children who are SEN have been getting involved and being more vocal which is great! Aran wrote a sentence for his feelings and was trying to communicate it to the staff. He struggles academically so to see him trying to write and communicate is a big improvement. Rosemary Hall, Teacher On the last day children were gifting their artists' books to me. It felt like exchanging letters or diaries as they contained their emotions and secrets accumulated over the weeks. One very shy child titled their book ‘me me me me me. Lucie MacGregor, Artist The messy part with water, playdoh, paper, paper card. My daughter really enjoyed getting her hands dirty. Parent Being an artist is having fun. Madeleine, child Inclusive, friendly, genuine warmth Roy, parent.