Posted on 11th March 2010
The Foundling Museum has announced its three Foundling Fellows for 2010 as cellist Julian Lloyd Webber, Turner prize-winning artist Grayson Perry and actress, writer and children’s TV presenter Cerrie Burnell, who has a long association with supporting disadvantaged people..
They will work with the Museum to develop original, creative initiatives for children. The Fellows are named after the Thomas Coram, William Hogarth and George Frideric Handel, the philanthropic founders and benefactors of the original Foundling Hospital, which the Foundling Museum commemorates.The Foundling Fellowship was established with the support of the Clore Duffield Foundation.
Lloyd Webber is the Handel Fellow. Widely regarded as one of the most creative musicians of his generation, Lloyd Webber has won numerous awards for his services to music. Leading the British Government’s new music programme In Harmony, he is working to promote personal and community development in some of England's most deprived areas, through orchestral-based learning and musical experiences. One of his plans as a Fellow is to work with disadvantaged children in a music workshop and concert.
Perry is the Hogarth Fellow. Grayson is best known for his elaborate ceramic vases covered with narratives and commentaries dealing with aesthetic, cultural, social and political subjects. His plans include a project based on children and art using the concept of relics – with children deciding what they might leave today to be seen in the future.
Burnell is the Coram Fellow. She is a well-known face of BBC’s CBeebies channel for young children. Burnell has set up and run workshops for Cardboard Citizens charity, which works with homeless young people and adults and for Shape, which works in special schools. Her determination in refusing to let her disability, she was born with one hand, hinder her success has made her a positive role model for other young disabled people As part of her Fellowship activities, she will investigate the relationship between single mothers and their children since the 18th century.
