Hope
Children from all backgrounds, cultures and religions shared their ideas of hope for the world. They ask for peace, a better environment and a desire for people to work together.
The sculpture is a series of relief tablets, modelled in clay and cast in concrete. They are set into the grass to form a circle. Diana led workshops with eleven schools and there is one tablet from each school. The children drew designs and each child made a small tile. The final design was modelled by the children and then cast by the artist.
Schools thoughts about Hope
Headington Quarry First School hope that everyone inthe
world will have somewhere to live.
Windmill First School hope that all the different kinds of
animals in the world will survive, that we have clean seas and
that we learn to live in peace.
Headington Nursery hope for a beautiful world where flowers
would be able to grow.
Bayswater Middle School hope that the continents will move
closer and that different people will be able to join together.
They also hope that everyone will be able to learn to read
and that we can keep our seas clean.
St. Andrew’s First School hope for a clean environment with
more trees and people working together for the future.
Slade Nursery hope for families to be together and love one
another.
Barton First School hope for people all around the world to be
able to join together and be friends.
Wood Farm First School hope for a world with clean seas and
an environment in which animals can live in harmony with
humans.
Headington Middle School hope that in the future mankind
will work together to learn and improve through
understanding.
Ormerod and the Hospital School hope that each child can
have a special place in the world and be treated equally.
