3D Platform Installation at Sandown Station
Students from Lionheart School chose to work with Jo Kori, following an open callout for a local professional creative to work with them to co-create a work for Sandown Station, reflecting on 200 years of rail travel and its impact on the local community and environment.
They were interested in capturing the history of train travel on the Isle of Wight, as well as a positive potential future for the station and the people who use it. As part of the process, they talked to nursing home residents about their memories and visited the museum at Brading Station.
Workshop sessions introduced them to paper casts and polymer clay, model making, drilling, riveting and construction. The final outcome from the project is a sweeping 3D installation of riveted aluminium tickets, some of them containing text, creating wings in flight and waves of railway heritage colours.
A key benefit I’ve seen for the Lionheart School students I’ve worked with since October 2025 on the 3D/sculpture commission for Sandown Station is their consistency of focus. Whatever else has been happening at school or at home for them, the Friday project has continued quietly and steadily for six months, growing in clarity and confidence...
This project was one of three youth-led projects in and around Sandown Station that emerged out of conversations with the Bay Youth Project. Explore the other two here:
Sandown Station Project
Three youth-led projects designed to make the area in and around Sandown Station feel safer and more welcoming, and to increase community cohesion.
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