Pin Hole Photography

 Atmospheric Pin Hole photographs of the school grounds by year 12 and year 9 Photographers. The panoramic photographs have been taken with a Quality Street tin.

Year 9 In Disguise Photography Project

Fashion and Fairytale | Year 9

Year 9 have been looking retelling Grimms fairytales and classic stories through elaborate headdresses... 

Key Stage 3 exhibition

Saint Catherine, joiner painting, 7H 

Saint Jerome, joiner painting, 7S

Saint Lucy, joiner painting, 7G

Saint Michael, joiner painting, year 7B

Key Stage 3 Art Show

Beautiful Etchings and Drawings by 8.4

Saints Alive | Year 7

Year 7 have been looking at the work of Michael Landy and creating their own super saints in response to the Saints Alive show at the National Gallery.

Saatchi Gallery Competition - a chance to win £10,000!

The Saatchi Gallery / Deutsche Bank Art Prize for Schools is open to primary, secondary and sixth form schools from around the world who are invited to submit art work from students up to the age of 18. Schools can enter as many art works as they wish, and there is no prescribed theme for works entered nor is there a restriction on media used (sculpture, painting, installation, photography and mixed media art works are all eligible and welcome). All work created in the academic year 2012/13 and 2013/14 is eligible. Entries must be submitted online.

The shortlist of schools and entries will be featured in an exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in February 2014 where the winner will be announced.

A first prize of £10,000 will be awarded to the winning school's art department, with a further £2,000 given to the winning pupil to be spent on art and computer equipment. Two further runner-up prizes of £5,000 each will be awarded to the second and third placed schools, with a further £1,000 to each of the winning pupils.

The deadline for entries is 6pm Monday 13 January 2014. 

Here are a couple of pieces by previous winners...

Submit yours to hgilson@hbschool.org.uk to be entered

Click here for more info

Year 9 Plaster Portraits inspired by Tactile Studios artist Rachel Dein

Students responded to the cast work of Rachel Dein by casting objects that represented them.

YEAR 9.4 One hour tonal drawing test.

An impressive standard of drawing by Yr9 - well done!

Paper Art | Year 8

Year 8 have been looking at artists who use paper to explore narrative through the combination of text and image. Here is an example of a lovely paper cut response to Rob Ryan's work by a year 8 art student. Check out more of Rob Ryan's work out here.

Year 9 Tonal Drawing

Tonal Drawing

Alice in Wonderland

Year 8 have begun exploring paper engineering through creating pop-ups using the theme of Alice in Wonderland