MEET Peckasso, the knitted pigeon, who will go on show outside York Art Gallery when Exhibition Square is wrapped in yarn, shredded fabrics and other woolly characters.
The Yarn Bomb event is part of the gallery’s open day on Saturday, which is a chance for the public to have a look at the empty gallery before work begins on a major redevelopment.
Visitors will be able to paint and draw on the walls of the Main Gallery, paint the South Gallery with light, listen to live music, visit the craft café and watch the Northern Potters creating a clay version of the gallery.
The gallery closed on December 31 and will reopen to the public in 2015.
Gaby Lees, assistant curator of arts learning for York Museums Trust, said: “We are hoping Exhibition Square will be decorated with yarn, shredded fabrics and woolly characters like Peckasso on the Yarn Bomb day and there are already more than 50 people promising to come along and help. If you want to join in all you have to do is turn up with your creations on the day and help us wrap up the whole square.”
The event will run from 10am to 5pm.
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