Yr 9 Fashion Show Themes/ Accessories:

Animal Print:
Headdress like a lions mane using fur fabrics
Paw prints on face
Cuffs made from fur fabrics
Badge with paw print

Animals:
Tails made from fur fabric
Bunches or pineapple style hair
Felt ears
Animal noses

African Remix/ Fusion:
Shoe accessories
Thick cuffs or corsages for wrist made from fabric
Hair in thin plaits (thick hair fishtail) or backcombed
Strong eye make up

Abstract:
Flowers made from material as hair fascinators
Hair backcombed/ curly
Massive bold necklaces and bracelets from card/ fabric
Neon skirts
Neon headband

North Africa:
Colourful leggings
Straight hair
High ponytail with hair wrapped round hair band pulled back tight
Barefoot/ sandals

Traditional:
Scarves - Either headscarf, round neck or hair
Tribal face paint
Dark kohl round eyes

Yr 10 working on their Chinese ceramics project

Year 8 Alice in Wonderland iMovie Animation

Students have created their own storyboards and animations inspired by 'Alice in Wonderland'.

Year 9 Fashion Show Committee!

Year 9 Fashion Show Committee

First and foremost I'd like to thank all girls from each point class that have signed up to the committee. Welcome aboard! I'm glad to see that you're all so enthusiastic as we have a lot of preparation to get on with! 

I am aware that you all have exams next week and the week after- the sooner we get organizing the more prepared we shall be!

We will meet on; Monday 28^th May- Lunchtime 1.30pm in the art studio 2, we can discuss arrangements for our next meetings.

I hope to see you then ladies!

1. Promotional material  & Advertising: 

•  Ayanna Grant 9.1

•  Komal Madani 9.2

•  Cindiya John Alex 9.2

•  Neha Shah 9.2

2. Visual Imagery:

•  Ashwatni Narayanan 9.2

•  Becky Collins 9.3

•  Ann Alexander 9.1

•  Tanya Agrawal 9.1

•  Tarini Anand 9.1

3. Music and Lighting:

•  Nuzhat Ahmed 9.4

•  Tara Kilcoyne 9.3

•  Sharmila Hall 9.2

•  Jashmitha Ramm 9.2

•  Jessie 9.1

•  Guanhong Li 9.1

4. Choreographers:

•  Naomi Kilcoyne 9.4

•  Roshni Raikundalia 9.3

•  Elsie Aluko 9.2

•  Beatrice Morris 9.1

•  Subbanke V 9.1

5. Model Management:

•  Maddy Issitt 9.4

•  Nafia Khan 9.3

•  Vanksihta Mishra 9.2

•  Anushka Gupta 9.2

•  Roshni H 9.1

6. Hair Stylists and Make up:

•  Alicia 9.3

•  Faega 9.2

•  Corrine Covvodus 9.2

•  Sophie Wei 9.2

•  Subbanke V 9.1

•  Tarini 9.1

Yr 8 Medals of Honour

Yr 8 Students created medals of Honor for the distinguishing achievements or the courageous and generous acts carried out by members of their family in the distant or recent past.  Students designed, mono printed and constructed their medals from card. They looked at different types of medals and the work of Hew Locke to inspire their ideas.

Shooting the Cannon - An Exhibition by Sophie Becker Yr 13

I have curated an exhibition of my own work, which will be held on Wednesday 28th March. My work is centered on the idea of ‘shooting the cannon,' or rather, questioning Art's historical backbone - a chronological 'cannon' of celebrated predominantly Western male artists. The Art History cannon is one of the reasons for the dramatic prestige surrounding famous and iconic artists that lead to an almost religious sacredness regarding their work to which thousands pilgrimage each year. This can also be applied to contemporary art: when I was lucky enough to do some work experience at Christie's Post-

war and Contemporary department I was shocked at the prices of some  works that I felt were unimpressive and, in some cases, even silly. I realised that simply because of the name of the artist, these works were considered highly valuable. My thoughts were confirmed when my colleagues also laughed at the ludicrous prices of these child-like sketches or grotesque splotches of colour.

Inspired by this experience, I have reproduced Art that I have seen at various times in my life that I have been excited by merely because they are by an artist, which I knew to be acclaimed or important. I am by no means criticizing these works, as there is not a singly piece referenced in my exhibition which I don't love or admire, but rather questioning the 'religiosity' surrounding them. Each piece in my exhibition is a reproduction that I have altered in scale, colour, or material to make them my own. I am interested to know when a reproduction stop being a reproduction and becomes the artist's own work. Are my exhibition pieces any less my own just because they copy and mimic other artists' work?

Inspired by Grayson Perry's 'Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman', I have also been keen to explore the concept of curatorship. All exhibitions have a curator, but most make an enormous effort to 'hide' their presence so as to present what the public experiences as objective, when in reality it is far from this. It is unrealistic to aim for objectivity when experiencing an exhibition as everything from the blurb next to each work down to the order in which the pieces are presented is the curator's own personal opinion. Grayson Perry challenged this by making his own exhibition obviously and purposely 

very personal. He doesn't ask his audience to think a certain way, but just to appreciate his own ways of thinking. I want to do this too. 'Shooting the cannon' is clearly a very personal exhibition for me, and I would like anyone who comes to see it to understand that these are my opinions and explorations, and that they should form their own views on what they see.

I have enjoyed creating and organising my exhibition so much, and this is why I would love everybody who is interested to come and see it! 

Teachers and students welcome  in Studio 1 from 1pm, Wed 28 March2012!

Students painting teachers! An in depth look at the face of education!

These are the initial drawings and painted beginnings of work by Yr 10 students.  They are working from photographs of different teachers at HBS.  Students have been looking at Lucian Freud, inspired by the wonderful exhibition of his work at the National Portrait Gallery, which students visited last week.  A weekly record of their work developing will be on the blog for teachers and students to see.

Paris Trip 2012

From the 9-13 February 33 students visited Paris to experience examples of Parisian art, culture, history and architecture. Even though the weather was extremely cold we were warmed by the wonderful blue and red of the stain glass windows in the Sainte Chapelle and the beautiful paintings in the Musee d'Orsay to name but a few of the exceptional visual delights on offer.