Haiku Portraits in a Bottle

Showing in his 2015 solo exhibition at Oriel Davies, Craig Wood’s Dear Olivia was the artist’s response to a young girl’s message in a bottle, which he found washed up on a South Wales beach. In this Oriel Davies outreach workshop with Learning Officer Helen Kozich, a mixed group of Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 pupils at Gladestry C in W School created haiku poems about themselves and their world. After placing these inside recycled plastic drinks bottles, the children decided to create an outdoor art installation with them by hanging their colourful messages inside a willow dome in their school grounds.