Best’s Angels (2017)—EXHIBITION OF children’s artwork. Haden Hill house museum, WEST MIDLANDS.
Little Angels was a community arts and heritage project involving a partnership between Haden Hill House Museum and a local primary school in Cradley Heath. Over one hundred participated, many who had not been to the museum before and created artworks for a children’s exhibition for the summer of 2016.
With an initial research visit to the museum and inspired by the Heritage Lottery Fund project Best’s Angels, the children immersed themselves in the 1880s: imagining themselves meeting the twelve year old Alice and Emily (Mr Best’s adopted daughters) or putting themselves in the girls’ shoes as they embarked on their new life with Mr Best.
The children have created a variety of responses through many different artworks including drawings, photographs, sculptures, written stories, books and silent films. Their work featured in an exhibition by children, for children: displaying all the work at children’s eye-level. Consequently, children visiting Haden Hill House throughout the summer holidays, found an exhibition created specifically just for them.
The Art of Taking Part 