Legacy of Hope

The Art Department have worked to a brief set by the R.E Department to complete a set of handmade butterflies. The most striking designs will be entered into a competition which will see The Holocaust Museum in Houston, USA , display 1.5 million butterflies in 2012 to remember all the children that died in the Holocaust.
The butterflies have been made by Year 8 students in their Art and Design lessons, after Miss Wright found an inventive technique to create the butterflies. The designs were meant to represent the tragedy of the Holocaust and also symbolise a sense of hope as these children will not be forgotten.

Miss Scruton Teacher of Art

Gallery Visits 2009 - 2010

Year 10 took a trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum to study crafts and textiles from around the world in November. This inspired some excellent imagery for their ‘Visual Skills’ coursework.

Year 11 GCSE and BTEC students and Year 13 BTEC students experienced the big, the bad and the most brilliant of Modern Art during two visits to the Tate Modern in January, walking around in Miroslav Balka’s ‘How It Is’: a huge, dark box stood in the Turbine Hall, and under the scaled-up ‘No Title (Table and Four Chairs)’ by Robert Therrien. It was a mind-expanding experience for all who attended. Year 11 GCSE students even produced some ‘Conceptual Art’ of their own on their return!

Year 8 Star Skills and Art and Design students took part in a fantastic ‘Narrative Art’ print workshop and were told the stories of the work of Rembrandt, Van Eyck and scores of other famous painters in the Dulwich Picture Gallery. They behaved so well that they were allowed to visit the Mausoleum, where the tombs and statues of the gallery’s patrons were on display!

Year 8 Star Skills and Art and Design students took part in a fantastic ‘Narrative Art’ print workshop and were told the stories of the work of Rembrandt, Van Eyck and scores of other famous painters in the Dulwich Picture Gallery. They behaved so well that they were allowed to visit the Mausoleum, where the tombs and statues of the gallery’s patrons were on display!

Coming Up: Year 12 AS and BTEC look at Saatchi’s collection in Sloane Square, Year 7 take on Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery, and a select group of Year 9 go on a BANKSY tour of East London……

“Crayonlegs” join Dynamic Design for Star Skills 200!

The Illustration Company “Crayonlegs” have come back to The Ravensbourne School to work with our students again. As part of the Star Skills 200 initiative, The Dynamic Design group had a fantastic opportunity to work with the professional illustrators to design a poster based on the 2010 Olympics. “Crayonlegs” have an impressive website which shows a number of their designs. (www.crayonlegs.com).The students used a range of materials and research tools to create some striking design work.

Miss Scruton, Teacher of Art

Aids Awareness Artwork

Year 8 and Year 13 Art and Design students have completed a brief set by Miss Fitzgerald (Director of ECM) to design a poster which educates and raises the awareness of AIDS and HIV. To coincide with World Aids Day, the students thought carefully about suitable images which would be striking and draw the viewer to the poster. The students needed to research the topic before they embarked on the project in order to establish the key facts about AIDS and HIV.
Miss Scruton Teacher of Art
“As a class we created a display made up of important facts about AIDS and HIV. We were trying to raise awareness and money for an AIDS charity by asking people to buy red ribbons. The display is made up of a number of posters, each poster focuses on a key part of information about AIDS; I chose to tell people about the symptoms of AIDS. This activity was very rewarding as we were able to research into a topic that is very important and relevant. The poster may just save one person life if they understand the risks of AIDS, and that it is not just in third world countries….

Sarah Moss Year 13 BTEC Art Design Student