Listening To Radiohead

Soundscapes, seascapes and landscapes

This series of linked activities explored drawing and sound. Workshops and events brought the community together to make drawings inspired by listening to stories, music, the radio, nature and each other. Working closely with Prema Arts Centre, pupils at Sir William Romney’s School, a specialist arts college, took ownership of the project, assisting with its organisation and delivery.

Some joined Ruskin Mill College special needs students for ‘a walk in the woods’, including charcoal-making and charcoal drawing to ghost stories by firelight.

The open workshop at Tetbury Library created a mobile collage of illustrations in response to sea stories.

A world-class concert from Tetbury Music Festival inspired a collaborative, life-size story-tree.

The finale was a week-long Big Draw at Sir William Romney’s, where students took their cue from Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and worked big, messy and across the curriculum to make a life-size forest environment for themselves, Peter… and the Wolf.