Pupils of several Sussex schools have worked with the artists of Same Sky to create a jungle like installation in the Gardner Arts Gallery.

Same Sky is a Brighton based organisation with a national reputation for producing community arts events. Since 1987, it has completed more than 200 projects.

Sharon Mee, of Same Sky, says: "Normally when we do these projects, the work is displayed in schools. This time, we decided to exhibit it in a gallery. A lot of the kids had never been to a gallery.

"We wanted to take art education and bring it back to a contemporary exhibiting context so that kids can see what it might be like to be an artist."

The work focuses on the students' interpretations and perceptions of jungles from our urban world to the Amazon. Wall hangings are rich with painted leaves, snakes, birds, animals and plant life. The ceiling too is covered in material painted with jungle motifs.

The year nine children at Falmer School made huge fabric screens and swathes of patterned textiles.

They used a transfer printing technique in which the pupils painted pictures that were then ironed on to polysilk.

Their theme was camouflage and they collected images for inspiration from books, magazines, catalogues and the internet to create the vibrant 30 metres of fabric used in the installation.

In The Secret Life Of The Jungle, clever pop-up books made in the students design and technology classes look at the jungle in terms of it being the home of many endangered species.

These include a dramatic waterfall and alligators, a striking jaguar behind foliage and the open mouth of a large cat bearing its teeth.

GCSE students of Portslade Community College wanted to work with traditional three-dimensional techniques to produce animals of the jungle. Using chicken wire, shrink wrap, plaster and fabric, they made the animals which settle among the leaves in the gallery.

The show is testimony to the abundant creativity of these children. As Mee says: "A lot was accomplished in a very short time."

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