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.”

Cluster Presentations for Children's Art Day 2010

All Year 7 & 8 students study an innovative MediaArts rotation. This curriculum enables students to study Art, Graphics, Resistant Materials, Textiles, Music, Dance and Drama over short, concentrated periods of time. By studying on the rotation, students are able to focus on a shared theme and employ a wide range of theoretical, practical and transferable skills. Last summer term saw the introduction of the 'Curriculum Cluster' option units, designed to make use of the skills that had been developed throughout the year. Students were presented with a vocational theme and invited to opt for their preferred cluster specialist subject. For Year 7, the theme was a theme park concept entitled 'Futura' and in Year 8, students were to respond creatively to the work of british printmaker, William Hogarth, on the theme 'The Living Gallery'.
After weeks of creative industry in lessons, students came together in their year groups to present their outcomes to both staff and peers. These events were organised to coincide with the national event 'Children's Art Day 2010 and saw the Dance studio and Great Hall filled with bright purple balloons, stickers and displays of preparatory studies to commemorate the big event! Each class took turns to present the impressive results of their specialist study and work produced showed an incredibly high standard of skill, professionalism and imagination. We were treated to amazing performances; some of which grew out of giant frames! There were audio hats modelled by their designers, beautiful mosaic work and Soundscope compositions amongst many other creations. The feedback was very positive with the large majority of the students stating that they loved being shown what the other groups had produced and that really enjoyed the teamwork element to the projects.
Congratulations to all involved. You have set the bar high for next years’ participants. Well done!

Daniel Nolan – Regional Semi-Finalist in the International “Doodle 4 Google” competition!

Daniel Nolan in Year 9 has proved himself to be an excellent Creative Thinker by producing a design for the international competition “Doodle 4 Google” where he had to design the Google Logo based on the theme “I Love Football”.
This was the first year that the competition was open to school children all over the world and Daniel was chosen as a Regional Semi-Finalist out of 4000 entries.
The managing director of Google UK-Matt Brittin wrote:
“We were extremely impressed with Daniel’s doodle for its artistic merit, creativity, interpretation of the “I Love Football” theme and the supporting statement. Over 4000 doodles were created this year, so getting to this stage is a huge achievement”
Well Done Daniel for this excellent Achievement.

MEDIA SHINE ON OPEN EVENING

‘Impressive,’ ‘Excellent’, ‘Unbelievable’. These are just some of the words that parents used to describe the Media Studies department at this years’ open evening. A Media Studies classroom was re-invented into a television studio for one night only where the prospective Ravensbourne students showed their potential in reading the news and presenting the weather! All with help from a selection of Year 12 BTEC Media Students who represented the school with great enthusiasm and professionalism.
With student films playing in the background, parents and Year 6 students were invited to experience media studies and the range of opportunities available at the school. Parents were overwhelmed by the facilities and opportunities Ravensbourne offers its students, saying ‘We didn’t have this when I was at school!’ Our own BTEC students described the evening as an ‘inspirational night’, so it was clear that their commitment to their course and the school would encourage parents and students to put The Ravensbourne School at the top of their list and hopefully inspire future media professionals to study here with us.

Humanities Logo Designed by G&T Art Students

As part of the weekly Gifted and Talented MediaArts Club run by Miss Barclay and Miss Bayman, students were asked to work together with Gifted and Talented students selected by Miss Hester, from Geography. The brief was to link subjects by designing a number of proposals for the new Humanities Logo. After a big discussion in the Gifted&Talented club, students worked out possible themes and images which would fit the brief, and then the designing began. After the final entries were submitted to the Humanities Faculty, Simon Stirling in Year 10 produced the winning design which was selected to be the official logo. Well done Simon - and keep your eyes out for the canvas (showing the logo) which is currently being painted by the MediaArts G&T club for the Humanities Corridor!