INSPIRE 2020

Heritage is thrilled to have had work chosen for this exciting exhibition showing in The Octagon Gallery of The Fitzwilliam Museum, from 10 December 2019 – 22 March 2020. The museum invited local schools across Cambridgeshire to respond creatively to one painting, Cupid and Psyche by Jacopo del Sellaio.  Led by Mrs Robertson, Heritage pupils from Year 4 – Year 7 have been inspired by the costumes, the textures, the colours and the figures in the painting to create an amazing array of artwork including miniature pieces of Renaissance furniture to fill a 3D Renaissance bedroom.  Using recycled materials, pupils have been making beautiful chairs, beds, wedding chests filled with tiny clay pots, miniature portraits and paintings for the walls depicting details from Sellaio’s original painting. (The Heritage bedrooms on display will contain work from across the classes.)  We hope that you will be able to visit the exhibition to see the imaginative and collective response of so many children to this wonderful painting.