Friday, 7 July 2017
David Hockney at The Tate
L5 GCSE artists visited the sell out David Hockey exhibition at The Tate Britain and enjoyed seeing the lifetime achievements of one of Britain's most important living artists. From photomontage to iPad painting, they wondered at Hockney's range.
Royal Academy Life Drawing Day
Sixth Form Art students participated in a Royal Academy life Drawing day with illustrator Charlotte Steele and her model Magda. Overall it was a brilliant day off timetable and a taste of what it is like to study at art school.
Expanding Space. A workshop with Contemporary 3D Designers Charlotte Kingsnorth and Will Yates-Johnson
Charlotte and Will, practicing designers based in London, set a challenge to lower sixth art students: to construct the biggest space from the smallest package. Using very thin mirrored plastic sheeting called ‘space blankets’, employed by NASA and marathon runners for heat retention, the students explored what space might mean, as well as how to create so much from so little. The day began with a simple exercise in pairs to create a large cube with a hole in one side. Taken outdoors, wind filled the cubes until full, when the pair crawled in and closed the hole. Hey presto! A space is formed. In the afternoon, the students dived headlong into the challenge, finding locations to inhabit in and around the art department. The workshop ended with each pair performing a magic trick: transforming their small, lifeless package into a large and exciting space.
Emma Cousin Art Scholars Master Class
On Friday 10th February we invited artist Emma Cousin to run a masterclass for our art scholars. Emma Cousin is a practising, artist helps run and curate independent art gallereies in London and has recentkly completed a residency at Wimbledon School of Art.
23 art scholars from the U3 to the U6 participated on the day including an ex-student and art scholar from 2012 Isobel Ramos who has recently graduated with a 1st Class Fine Art Honours degree from Falmouth University. The day was a fantastic melting pot of ages and talent.
The masterclass focused on creativity and invent
There was plenty of drawing and painting, particularly using mark making techniques and composition. Motifs were considered and how they interact imaginatively with different art forms and contexts. But creative fun was the essential ingredient of the day where activities included a banana workshop, and a walking exercise, the scholars had to pass invisible objects each other before visualising and painting them.
At the end of the day the scholars had developed a personal vocabulary and produced inventive and imaginative imagery of their own, this included a marmite dragon by Millie Rodger and a watering can/ basket ball piece by Natalia Dale.
Fashion & Textiles Museum Workshop
In February, GCSE and A-Level visited the Fashion and Textile Museum during London Fashion Week. Amongst the many design professionals in the capital, they viewed the first UK exhibition of designer JOSEF FRANK, a world renowned instigator of the Swedish Modernist movement. Students also took part in a practical fashion design workshop led by the museum's tutors.
Friday, 8 July 2016
Oxford Art Teach Summer Workshops at Oxford
Brookes University.
Mr Taylor and Mrs Taylor participated in a
teacher’s creative workshop day on Saturday 2nd July. Mr Taylor on is the
steering committee the Oxfordshire art teachers association promoting
innovation and good practice. A brilliant day involved workshops in
experimental approaches to Painting by artist Hannah Knox, a conceptual mixed
media experience with artist Jon Lockhart and printmaking techniques with
printmaker Elaine Le Corre.
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