3 May–27 June 2021
Children’s Graduation Carousel
400 children from Timmergreens and Muirfield Primary School
Led by artist Sally Hackett
Therapets of your Dreams
by artist Sally Hackett
Celebrating the children who are graduating onto secondary school and moving onto new things, the Children’s Graduation Carousel is the fourth annual project we have created working with local primary schools Timmergreens and Muirfield.
Through weekly workshops over six weeks with the P1-P7 pupils at both schools, artist Sally Hackett asked the children to imagine their dream therapet, an imaginary pet that looks after them and can have magical abilities to give them comfort or feel better. This collective artwork combines the dream therapets made by the children into a sprawling fairground Carousel within Hospitalfield’s grounds as an alternative to our grand annual Procession.
Sally Hackett Biography
Sally Hackett is an artist and educator living and working in Glasgow. Sally makes sculpture with a range of materials of widely different shelf lives and sell by dates from glazed ceramics to peanuts, garlic husks and toilet rolls. Spurred by intuitive making, Sally creates her work predominantly around emotion and mental states. Characters appear showing stories of social intricacies, heartbreak and human failure but with a playful aesthetic of bright colours and cartoon faces. Her work aims to simultaneously express both joy and pain. The playful aesthetic of the work mirrors the sentiment, displaying the energy and beauty present in imperfection. Sally’s interest in pedagogy often sees her working directly with community groups and children to create works collaboratively or facilitate others in their act of creating. She has worked on educational projects with a wide range of organisations, completing projects and residencies with Glasgow Royal Hospital for Children, GOMA, Project Ability, Platform, Panel and Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Recent exhibitions include ‘A toilet is a wishing well’ Generator Projects (2020) ‘A Weakness for Raisins’ CCA, Glasgow (2018) ‘From Glasgow Women’s Library’ (2018) and ‘The Fountain of Youth’, Edinburgh Art Festival (2016).
