Your Chance to Make Gargoyles

Your Chance to Make Gargoyles

Be inspired by Ayscoughfee Hall Museum's gruesome 'gargoyles' and create your own out of clay.

The Spalding museum is hosting artistic workshops on Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th September.

Drop in any time between 11am and 3pm on both days and make up to five 'gargoyles'.

The results of everyone's handiwork will go on display in the museum's undercroft throughout October and November.

Cllr Nick Worth, portfolio holder for leisure, said: "This exciting project follows on from similar work last year when, inspired by Antony Gormley, we asked the people of South Holland to make clay replicas of themselves, their family and their pets. More than 100 people took part and we had around 300 figures in an exhibition.

"We hope as many people join in this year because it's a great way to bring out people's artistic talents and have fun at the same time."

The cost of the workshops is £3 per person.

Ayscoughfee Hall is one of the most complete British medieval houses to survive from the 15^th Century.

Many 'old faces' decorate its façade. Although we tend to call such pieces of architectural sculpture gargoyles, they are, strictly speaking, grotesques.

Gargoyles are decorative waterspouts that divert the flow of rainwater away from buildings. The word gargoyle derives from the French gargouille, or throat, from which the verb, to gargle, also originates.

The term grotesque can apply to any fanciful human or animal form, especially when it is a caricature.

Article Published: 07/09/2010

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