Shoe-ducks

Earlier this year, year 8 students explored surrealism and learned how to make collograph prints and incorporate them in a surrealist composition:

A "shoe-duck" by one of our year 8 students

Experimental photography in IB

At the beginning of year 12 we explore experimental photography. Students use our tiny darkroom to produce pin-hole photographs and cyanotypes. They learn how to develop and print their photos. Combined with traditional techniques, students are encouraged to mix new technology with old techniques. In result, we have had a great combination of skills involved in making some of the pieces I present below:


Pinhole photography page by Sara Roberts

Photoshop manipulation of pinhole by Sara Roberts

Cyanotype by Paola Kossakowska - This is a digital image which was transfered onto acetate and then used to sensitize a cyanotype.

 

GCSE 2014 Art exhibition

This year our GCSE exhibition is in Tires. Please see below:

Life drawing in the evenings

For years we have been offering life drawing sessions after school. We do this mainly to provide year 12 students with the opportunity to develop great drawing skills and to add to their portfolio an essential practice in art training. The sessions are also open to staff under appointment and occasionally we extend them to the most mature and dedicated year 11 students. Bellow are a few examples (quite outstanding!) drawn by two of our current year 11 students. You can see these live in the upcoming exhibition.

Miguel Gonçalves, y11

Miguel Gonçalves, y11

 

Miguel Gonçalves, y11

 

Return from the Ashes

Dear All, It's been a very long time since my last post. Four years have past and the Art department has been through so much. Now it is time to come back and let you know what we have been up to. It is hard to know where to start but I think the best is to show you the video of our great year 13 finalists talking about the work they presented in their final exhibition. This video is a compilation of sections of edited interviews that integrated the external assessment material for IB Visual Arts.

Tate creates a research database for Y11 students

Bruce Nauman - Mapping the Studio II

UPDATE.....

My apologies for being away for so long....Students are becoming too demanding. There is very little time to breathe..
The Year 11's are exploring in three dimensions:









and so are the year 10's!