Creative Day at the Institute of Education

Year 9 and Year 11 will be visiting the Institute of Education on the 16th November to listen to a series of lectures given by some of Britain's most prestigious artists including Grayson Perry, Cornelia Parker, Paul Slater and Barton Hargreaves. The artists will offer insights into their ideas and creative methods through discussion of their work, offering students a rare opportunity to hear artists views about contemporary art today.

RCA : ReachOut Workshop

'I learn't that stories and history can be told in different forms oƒ visual art.'

'Now I see drawing as more than putting a pencil to paper.  It is an expression of creativity and a map of different marks.'

 Year 10

Year 10 and 12 had the exciting opportunity to work with artist Sian Gledhill and the Royal Academy of Art ReachOut team. During the first part of the workshop, students were required to work within a set of rules either given by the artist or set by themselves. This stretched and challenged their perspectives of drawing and the creative process through the encouragement to use alternative drawing tools such as chairs, balloons and their feet and being restricted to only one or two repetitive movements. The second part of the workshop required students to interpret a word as a group and then create films that encompassed that word.

The students films will be part of an Exhibition at the RCA that will open this week. 

Check out Sian Gledhill's work here

Calling all Year 9 Ladies

Year 9 Gothic Project

Year 9 have been looking at Gothic Literature for inspiration for their Key Stage 3 Exhibition. They have been refining their drawing techniques by looking at many different artists such as Paula Rego, Kiki Smith, Jenny Holzer, John Stezaker and Melinda Gibson. Here are some examples of students work based on the following artists;  Leonardo Da Vinci, George Seurat, Escher, Sam Winston and Henry Moore.

Stunning drawings from GCSE and A Level

Year 12 Prints

Year 7 Drawing Club

Year 7 were asked by year 12 to draw from their feet up. This proved quite a challenge that required a lot of looking and drawing you can SEE rather than what you THINK should be there.

Artists

Kirsty Mitchell

Simon Prades

Janice Wu

Jim Kazanjian

Kate Macdowell