Art and Design Gifted and Talented students work with the Humanities Faculty to produce Art for display

The Art and Design G&T students have been working on a brief set by Mrs Hester (Head of Geography) to create a canvas which depicts the Humanities Logo, based on an Art Student’s (Simon Stirling- Year 10) design.
The logo was created in a previous project where Gifted and Talented Art and Humanities students came together to share ideasand work on the design
The canvas was completed by Gifted and Talented (Art) students Simon Stirling, Jenny Jones, Andrew Jones, Rowan Parfee, Chloe Auger and Rebecca Smith – all in Year 10.
These students used their Personal Learning and Thinking Skills to be excellent Creative Thinkers, Team Workers and Effective Participators.
Well done to all for the hard work and excellent outcome!

Art and Design Year 9 students make international connections by working with Teachers from Nigeria

A collection of Year 9 Art and Design Students had the incredible opportunity to work with a number of teachers from Nigeria. Mrs Andre (International Schools Co-ordinator), Mrs Ashman (Head of MediaArts ) and Ms Renwick organised for the international staff to meet up with the Year 9 DesignArts class, and share their artistic skills. The students were shown how to create African Stone Carving Sculptures which were based on the symbols used within this African community.

The students worked incredibly hard all day to produce the outcomes and were highly commended by our international visitors. The Art students were given the opportunity to work with materials they had not experienced before and used a wide range of new techniques to produce their sculptures. The next stage is that these Year 9 students will work within the community to share the skills they have learnt from the Nigerian teachers.

Art Teacher’s create their own Art Work!

As part of the 1st year of the MA in Artist Teachers and Contemporary Practices, both Miss Wright and Miss Bayman (Teachers of Art) have completed a piece of Art submitted in an End of Year exhibition at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Miss Wright’s Art work:
“The Ultimate” (Acrylic on Plywood, 80 x100cm)
“The trophy-like symbols are based on images of sports cars. The six paintings are representative of my favourites: (clockwise from top left) Lamborghini Reventon, Ford GT90, Lamborghini Diablo, Lamborghini Murcielago, Lamborghini Madura and Bugatti Veyron. I adapted shapes and blurred out details so that the images could convey their own meaning. The images symbolise achievement, aspiration and success. They are coats of arms. They are also memorials, like a leader board at school, or animal heads over a mantelpiece.Power for your Control. The Relentless Pursuit of Perfection. Thoroughbred. For Life. The Ultimate. These are all car advertisement slogans that inspired me to produce these ‘trophies’. The objects we want ‘see’ us into having them. The object signifies, creating a screen through which the viewer is forced to see one’s own self. The current Peugeot advertisement states “It Chooses You. It Owns You”.
When we look at a car we want, we are caught in a web of meaning - wealth, power and status.”

Miss Bayman’s Art Work:
“Debris”
(Chicken Wire, Perspex sheets and discs, drawings and photographs scanned onto Lazertran, Metal Hooks and Blue Thread)
“This piece is concerned with the idea of identity and the practice of trying to pin down the true identity of an individual. The conflict lies in trying to represent the myriad of aspects of a personality and the ever- changing role of the individual which morphs depending on situation and experience.
The “net” connected to the ceiling is representational of a trawler net which has endured the activity of gathering many pieces of information. The remains caught in the net are representational of the traces of experience and memory.”