Plushy Prep

For our third visit to St Christopher’s Hospice we had prepared plush dolls of ourselves as examples of how the plush dolls of them could look. The workshop this week was all about planning out the plush dolls of the patients. We did this by talking to them about what they would want it to be like, inspired by other artist examples of plush dolls and by the patients lives. We then did some concept drawings showing the doll from the perspective of the patients and of the students. This week I was working with two patients from the Hospice; Nancy and Clement. Through my discussions with Nancy I learnt that when she was younger she was a professional singer and that she felt that could work really well for the plush doll of her. Clement talked about him being a carpenter and that his plush doll could show him in a position of making something, showing his really active personality. I found this workshop helpful for developing ideas for the plush doll and also really interesting to learn about these people’s lives.