America gets to see Miss Garrod’s world vision.

Miss Garrod’s photography work was projected onto a screen set up under Brooklyn Bridge.

Miss Garrod’s is getting a worldwide audience following her inclusion in an exhibition featuring the work of international students. This year her work was selected to become part of an exhibition called World Visions: Emerging Photographers.
World vision’s was created and curated by Michelle Bogre, associate professor at Parsons the new school for design in New York. It features the work of 125 photography students and recent alumni at some of the world’s best photography schools in Mexico, India, South Africa, Switzerland, the Netherlands, England and America.
The exhibition became part of the New York photography festival in May and Miss Garrod’s work was included. Three of her images were projected in a New York gallery and for one night it was projected onto a screen set up under the Brooklyn Bridge. Her work is now on tour in world vision’s and will be exhibited worldwide.

MediaArts Faculty & Technology Summer Show 2010

The Private View of the popular MediaArts event took place on the evening of Thursday 24th June.

This year’s exhibition showcased a diverse range of exiting and vibrant work from our talented Year 11, 12 and 13 students.

Textiles students had made some innovative garments and accessories which we supported by beautifully presented sketchbooks. Film makers from both A-level and BTEC National Diploma courses engaged their audience with original scriptwriting and professional production skills. Art students served up something to suit everyone’s taste; from urban landscapes inspired by Impressionism and sculptures of drunken rabbits to video installation pieces.

The event was well attended by members of the school and wider community. It was great to see such a large audience pop-in to support our students’ achievements. One attendee commented on the quality of the work. “I was amazed at the creativity involved in generating the work on display. The responses to the briefs were full of enthusiasm and you can see the effort involved in getting to the end product. A great display of work from an obviously talented group of students”.

Visiting moderators have commented this year on the excellent standard and this is reflected by the number of Year 13 students that have been successful in gaining their first choice place at colleges and university. Good Luck to all who graduate from TRS this summer.

Ms Ashman
Head of MediaArts Faculty

Building special relationships

Glebe School, Creative and Media Diploma Y11 Students recently visited TRS to use the specialist screen-printing facilities in the MediaArts department. Glebe students worked with Y13 BTEC Art and Design students to print eco-bags and T-shirts to be sold at the Bromley Farmers Market, to raise funds for Sport Relief.

This project was part of a borough collaboration between Glebe School and TRS who have become specialist school partners. Miss Underhill-Head of Art has been working with the Glebe school throughout the academic year facilitating a range of Art and Design workshops in order to develop skills for the Creative & Media Diploma Level 1 Project.

The collaboration has been a real success, both students and staff from both schools have benefited from the experience:

‘The workshops provided an invaluable opportunity for our learners to meet and work alongside unfamiliar adults, and this has allowed them to practice their PLTS in a meaningful way. The experience of working with a Lead Teacher has certainly allowed us to plan for and deliver creative projects with confidence. We look forward to developing our joint working not only in the Diploma but across a number of new initiatives this year.' Chris Collins-Assistant Head, Glebe School

For more information please visit the Specialist schools website:
https://www.ssatrust.org.uk/specialism/arts/Pages/Buildingspecialrelationships.aspx

The good wording is spreading amongst local Primary Schools

The good wording is spreading amongst local Primary Schools, not only are we continuing our fantastic work with our five partner primary schools, we are now being approached by other schools within the area requesting our students expertise. Not wanting to disappoint, we jumped at the chance of delivering a workshop for Marian Vian Primary school in Beckenham for part of their Arts Week.

This year the students from Marian Vian were focusing on an ‘Under the Sea’ theme and wanted our help to making a large mural to be displayed in school. Ms Ashman and BTEC students from 12AH took up the challenge and visited the school on Wednesday 16th June to work with the Year 5 students.

Throughout the day the Year 5’s were guided through the process of Poly Printing and were shown the technique of Reduction Printing with up to three colours. Our Year 12’s worked enthusiastically throughout the day, giving demonstrations, support and guidance.

Chloe from 5I said “I really enjoyed pressing and rolling the paint and loved working with the Ravensbourne students, they were so nice” and Paris from 5F quoted “I liked sticking down and rolling the design, I can’t wait to do this again”.

Ms Ashman and our students was very impressed with the finished design and the hard work and commitment showed by the Year 5’s. “I enjoyed seeing the results of the year 5’s hard work and the creativity they showed throughout the day” said Jack 12AS.

Well done to the following students for their involvement in the day:- Molly Coxon, Jack Defer, Sophie Holmes, Charlotte Jones, Daisy O’Grady, Jaylan Osman,
Grace Sinnott, Jorja Spiers, Andrew Turnbull, Lucy Weir and to Ms Ashman for organising the trip.