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May 04, 2022

Pewter

The Queens Drawers Projects

Event Description

The two separate pewter casting workshops will be led by Tabitha Frost who is an award-winning metal smith. She is trained in a range of metal work and Silversmithing techniques.

This workshop will give you experience in a time served technique producing fantastic tactile results. It is a great way to experience pewter in both a molten and solid form.

You will be getting hands on in making moulds and pouring liquid pewter to make you own original objects. As well as experimenting with different casting techniques and metal working tools to learn some of the different techniques used in metal work, there will be the option to personalise your cast

pieces.

You will leave having experimented and handled different tools and equipment and will have made your own individually designed and cast pewter piece of work.

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The Event

Split into two sessions the morning one mainly for adults was fully booked as was the afternoon for youth.

Participants had the chance to use objects from the drawers in the Heritage centre to create moulds in the casting sand. It was a brilliantly inventive morning, drilling, filing, sawing and working out how to join the cast elements together.

Then the incredible discovery of dropping molten pewter into water which created the most incredible organic twisted shapes controlled in part by the speed and height from which the pewter was dropped. We now have some wonderful works to exhibit in the centre on Friday 3 June

What the participants thought

"Loved pouring the pewter into water, it was amazing it was like silver bullets. Didn’t know the centre was here."

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Olivia (youth)
“I think it’s brilliant! I really like the idea of modern workshops in a historical setting. I feel like I’m absorbing history.”

Martin
“Never done anything like it before – wonderful atmosphere. More of the same please!”

Anne
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Zack (youth)
“Good community feel would love longer sessions.”

Emma
"Very insightful. Good team and a friendly group. More workshops please and for longer."

Christine
":I've never been in before but I would like to come more and do more.

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Skye (youth)

The Queens Drawers Project

This workshop was part of a series of 5 artist led funded by the Art’s Council Lets Create Jubilee fund from Cambridgeshire Community Foundation - ensuring that creativity plays an important role in local community celebrations for Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

All of the works made will be kept in Adams to go on exhibition on Friday 3 June, after which they will be returned to the maker.

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