Great Waldingfield School and the Big Gift

Children from Great Waldingfield School, along with other schools in the county, have contributed art work to the Big Gift exhibition which opened at St Edmundsbury Cathedral last weekend.

The school has, at the same time, also produced some lovely installations for Great Waldingfield Church.  These will be on show to visitors to the church from today on weekday afternoons until Friday 11th December between 1 and 4 p.m.

The installations, which are inspired by the work of Julian Opie, are constructed from cardboard boxes, painted paper and fabric, including some white woolly material for the shepherds' sheep. 

I went down to the church this afternoon to take a look, and, for this week only, in addition to the larger works, also on display are a wide selection of nativity cribs from all over the world.  Some of these, many of which are quite fascinating, are pictured below.