Revived and revisited

Fiona and I gave The Fishers post a clean (see photos above) before the S2 students from Farr High School came to visit and hear about her exhibition Hame.

Last year we did an aluminium etching workshop with two classes (S1 & S2) at the high school; and turned their combined etched aluminium plates into a sculptural memorial post that is now called the The Fishers post. S1 class of course are now S2 and we suspected they might want to check out the post during their visit. As you can see from the photos below, with Tracy their art teacher, we were right. As soon as they got off the bus they made a bee line for the post and spent some time rejoicing in finding their art works on the post.

Following are some images of the cleaning - gently done with a stainless steel scourer, soap, water and cleaning rags. We were removing 12 months of light grey-white corrosion (see last photo) caused by the salt air.

It brought Fiona and I much joy to see the young people expressing pride in their publicly displayed art work. Over the last year some of the students had brought family members to the Annex to show them their work. The following day this year's S1s who visited Fiona's exhibition also visited the post; and some did rubbings of art done by their older siblings.