Residents at a Werribee aged-care facility are getting creative as they help a very special art sculpture take wing.
Artist Kaz McGlynn is running an arts program at Mercy Place Wyndham, helping residents to build, fire and paint bird statuettes.
The statuettes will then be used to create a sculpture that will be placed permanently in the centre’s courtyard.
The finished sculpture would stand about two metres tall and incorporate Mercy Place Wyndham’s values and a mosaic.
Mercy Place Wyndham lifestyle co-ordinator, Anne Irwin, said the program started in January.
“The outcome will be something colourful which the residents will be able to enjoy,” Ms Irwin said.
“The fact that it will be a permanent sculpture in the courtyard – and that families and future residents will be able to see it and it will last for a long time – is pretty special.”
Ms Irwin said she invited Ms McGlynn to run an arts program after seeing her in action at a Geelong aged-care facility.
She said Mercy Place Wyndham residents, including some from the memory support unit, had enjoyed working with
Ms McGlynn.
“They’re socialising, they can communicate together and they get great satisfaction out of it,” she said. “They just enjoy being able to actually create something.”
