Confiscation Cabinets

Artist Guy Tarrant's display cabinets show artefacts gleaned from 150 different London primary and secondary schools over three decades. These objects include homemade games, keepsakes, cult toys, peculiar adornments, weapons and other forbidden objects which characterise the flotsam and jetsam of contemporary school children. Since qualifying as a teacher, Guy Tarrant has investigated pupil interaction, play and resistant behaviour. The objects in the cabinets highlight mischievous and distracted behaviour played out in the controlled school setting where children spend much of their time. These confiscated items are evidence of the pupils' playful and impulsive activities and how they may reject or evade rules.

Suitable for
Any age


Website
http://www.museumofchildhood.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions-and-displays/confiscation-cabinets

Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk/mw1507?id=EVENT454274