Mira Schendel exhibition at the Tate Modern with the sixth art pupils.

Yr12 and 13 pupils visit the Tate Modern and the work of Mira Schendel(1919-1988).  

On Wed 20 November Yr12 explored and worked from the permanent collection at the Tate Modern until we were met by Yr13 pupils and visited the work of Swiss Born artist Mira Schendel, who is regarded to be one of Brazil's most important artists from the 20th Century.  After fleeing a war - devastated Europe for Brazil she soon settled into a newly dynamic society with its own emerging art movements.   Her work  deals with the themes of existence, self understanding, faith and language.  It is a very unusually hung show and our students picked up lots of different ideas.

Key Stage 3 Art Show

Year 10 Royal College of Art Trip

On Friday 8th November, 15 students from Year 10 were invited by ReachOut RCA to take part in a Life Drawing workshop at The Royal College of Art in Battersea. Students were lead by current MA students in various drawing activities that ranged from quick 5 second responses to making their own individual and group stop frame animations. It was a throughly enjoyable day that challenged the students perception of figure drawing and moving image in an exciting and engaging way.

Frieze Trip 2013

Frieze Art Fair 2013

Pupils from Yr11 and 13 visited the Frieze Art Fair 2013 in Regents Park.  We enjoyed fabulous sunshine as we drew from the sculptures in the sculpture garden.  The theme was very reflective this year!  Once inside the fair HB pupils experienced a global snap shot of contemporary art today.  It was a rewarding day and pupils were able to resource different  ideas and artists for their personal work in their coursework projects.

Home: Year 13 work

Year 13 Photography Response to Andreas Gursky

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.

Outstanding Biro Studies by Year 10

Year 10 have been analysing the work of Lucian Freud to inspire portraits of their family members.

We would like to congratulate the outstanding achievements at GCSE and A Level 2013.  We are extremely proud of our committed and talented Art students.

Student's work selected for Artsdepot Open 2013

Congratulations to Vy on her first show. 

You can view her work at the Artsdepot from Friday 26th July 2013 - Sunday 8th September 2013 12.00PM- 4.00PM

GCSE and A Level students enjoy an exhibition workshop at the RCA

 The workshop was all about texture- drawing, talking, thinking and seeing textures. We started out the day in the Sculpture building at Battersea which had some fantastic work and textures to offer! The group started out with a texture hunt. Each student was given a texture related word to try and hunt down within the show. All the students came up with some brilliant responses to the words that they were given.

Check out more of their work on the Showzine blog.

TONIGHT

Year 10 'In Disguise' Biro Drawings