PLASTER I

This past year we have had an unusual amount of work with plaster in our department. I want to show a few examples of how our students have used plaster to make moulds to produce sculptures or how sometimes the plaster is the sculpture itself.

Above are two figures made by one of our year 13 students Diana Vasconcellos. The human figure is Diana, or to be accurate a mod-roc mould of Diana. It is not a cast of Diana, but the mod-roc shell itself.  It is a three part mould joined together. When talking about casting in a y12 lesson the other day, I realised most people in the room were slightly confused about what a "cast" is. The other figure you see is a monkey which was built in cardboard and tape (using a similar technique to the year 9 sculptures based on Naum Gabo, posted a few days ago). The surface was then covered in plaster.

Here, Tomás Candeias is creating a high relief by
making a plaster mould of a carved linoleum  plate

Luisa Vasconcelos made a plaster mould of
a doll and photographed it in such a way that
 it is hard to discern which are the convex or the concave surfaces.

One of our year 11 students merged her own figure (another mod-roc mould)
with a couple of large horns, also mod-roc moulds, to create this mythical faun like creature.

Tomás Candeias in year 13 describes the process of making a series of pyramids in plaster to construct a sculpture
 



Here is Tomás Candeias' plaster sculpture complete