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Artist and teacher Guy Tarrant's exhibition 'Confiscation Cabinets' is on display at the V&A Childhood Museum until 1 June 2014.
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The exhibition focuses on the everyday actions of school students, with objects including pen tubes used as pea shooters, toy guns, colourful plastic toys and jewellery, make-up, gadgets, and improvised missiles.
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Since qualifying as a teacher, Guy Tarrant has investigated pupil interaction, play, and resistant behaviour and making artworks since 1987.
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'The Confiscation Cabinets' highlight the distracted behaviours seen in the controlled school setting.
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The objects show the pupils' playful and impulsive activities and how they may reject or evade rules.
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The majority of items on display were donated by senior and head teachers, while others were collected by Guy while working as a teacher in primary and secondary schools, and in centres and schools for pupils with emotional, social, and behavioural difficulties.
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Each school has its own policy for returning confiscated items: The objects on display represent cases where pupils have been given the opportunity to reclaim their property but chose not to do so.
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The exceptions to this are weapons, stolen items, or items believed to have been used to cause damage to a person or property.
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