Wire sculptures fascinate a child...

(Photograph) - Wire sculptures fascinate a child at the 'talking touching texting' at Avonmouth Community Centre in Bristol organised by the Big Wide Talk, a national research and development project that encourages parents to be more involved in creating services that match their children's needs. The exhibition includes two rooms, one with wire sculptures of people and animals made by the under-fives suspended from the ceiling of a lightbox room, and the other containing projected images of the children's emergent writing skills. Ann Jamieson, director of the Big Wide Talk, said that the Cloth Place exhibition held at the centre in January was so successful in getting children to put pen to paper that parents and practitioners wanted to celebrate it in a 'larger than life way'. She said, 'Many of the three-year-olds used notebooks provided to write shopping lists and their older siblings, the under-eights, wrote intriguing stories about the Cloth Place People.' For more information see www.playingwithwords.org.uk. Photo Stephen Shepherd