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Adam Neate

Mr. Sands — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:47:08 +0000

Adam Neate is a street artist who has produced thousands of portraits on old, found or discarded cardboard which he returns back to the street as part an ongoing open exhibition for people to encounter, pick up and collect.

Neate use of found materials echos early Abstract Expressionists and Neo Dadists and his portraiture styles range from Abstraction, Constructivism to Vorticism.

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Sharron 2006

Andy Warhol

Mr. Sands — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 07:18:04 +0000

Having started as a commercial artist Andy Warhol looked at ‘popular culture‘ for his inspiration. Warhol has explored this topic through Painting, Drawing, Print, Installation, Sculpture, Photography, Film, Audio and Music. His most iconic works are his screenprinted portraits of celebrities and his portrayal of popular everyday food packaging and logos.

Food and Drink Project

Pupil Example: Zarmena 2009

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Wayne 2008

Art Exhibition 2008

Mr. Sands — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:46:17 +0000

Claes Oldenburg

Mr. Sands — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:02:25 +0000

Examples of Food and Drink inspired sculptures by Claes Oldenburg.

Food and Drink Project

Pupil Example: Nora 2006

Pupil Example: Deirdre 2008

Pupil Example: Liam 2009

Pupil Example: Hayley 2009

David Hepher

Mr. Sands — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:54:25 +0000

David Hepher is a landscape artist who explores ideas about poverty and decline within an urban setting. See here to view more work.

Eduardo Paolozzi

Mr. Sands — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:52:17 +0000

Eduardo Paolozzi was a leading figure in the early British Pop Art movement and produced several collages that established the future POP blueprint. His latter works still maintain the Pop collage aesthetic but take influences of cubism in the geometric patterned backgrounds and futurism with the use of Industrial and Mechanical forms.

Faile

Mr. Sands — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:34:47 +0000

Faile is a international art collective consisting of Patrick McNeil, Patrick Miller and Aiko Nakagawa. Their work ranges from printmaking, stenciling and painting and is heavily influenced by popular culture and the works of Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Francis Bacon

Mr. Sands — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:48:33 +0000

Francis Bacon‘s work feature bleak, distorted, violent and even nightmarish portraits of friends, contemporaries, religous or historical figures. He has explored this theme through Paint, Collage, Drawing, Printing and Mixed Media.

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Anthony 2009

Greg Sand

Mr. Sands — Fri, 10 Jun 2011 15:44:44 +0000

Greg Sand explore issues of time and death through the medium of photographer, mixed media and digital manipulation. He deconstructs tradition media often associated with documenting memory, situation and place and asks the viewer to ponder the fragilityof life.

2011 GCSE Art and Design exam: People and Places

Learner response: Jodie 2011

Jasper Johns

Mr. Oddie — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:41:33 +0000

We have designed a curriculum that promotes Creativity, Experimentation, Exploration, Risk taking and Learning from mistakes.

Abstract Expressionism and Jasper Johns Letter and Numbers series are excellent examples of Creativity, Experimentation and Exploration and are an ideal movement /artist for our pupils to research and respond to.

Ks3 Colour Project

Pupil Example: Ernie 2009

Jim Dine

Mr. Sands — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:26:12 +0000

Jim Dine is a stalwart of the ‘pop art’ aesthetic by incorporating everyday readymade objects in his work. For the robe series Dine investigated the robe through a wide variety of fine art techniques and media.

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Nyasha 2010

Keith Haring

Mr. Sands — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:30:46 +0000

Keith Haring‘s work is heavy influenced by graffiti and pop art. He combined these two styles to create simplistic and colourful icon based artworks spanning several mediums.

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Josh 2010

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Rita 2007

Pupil Example: Mitchell 2008

Pupil Example: Dot 2005

Laura Oldfield Ford

Mr. Sands — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:09:02 +0000

Laura Oldfield Ford‘s work chronicles and maps the city, exposing hidden narratives, social and economic currents e.g. social housing regeneration. Through her post modern punk zine/blog ‘Savage Messiah‘, Oldfield produces drawings, mark making and collage compositions that capture the raw concrete estates and brutalist flyovers. Laura Oldfield Ford is one of the featured artists in our Level 3 BTEC ‘In the City‘ Project.

Mark Kennedy

Mr. Sands — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:47:58 +0000

Mark Kennedy is a mosaic artist who has taken a 4000 year old medium and reinvented it for the 21st century. Where once deities and gods were the muse Mark Kennedy focuses on Musicians, Artists, Actors, Celebrities and Football that all typify Northern, and especially Mancunian popular culture for his brightly colourful mosaics.

Alternative Portrait Project: Harrison 2010

Psycho Portraiture: Explosion Heads

Mr. Sands — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:44:54 +0000

Our latest brief for the Level 3 BTEC/GCE course, learners investigate the Psychology behind the creative process studying and responding to the work of contemporary artists ranging Colin Chillag, Anzeri Maurizio to Dan Mountford. As part of their creative investigations learners looked at pure, uncontrolable emotion such as rage or anger and were challenged to create an orginal piece of work , selecting materials and processes that best communicate this.

Psycho Portraiture Project 2012

Applique Explosion Heads: Lloyd

Royal Academy of Art – Outreach Programme

Mr. Sands — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:48:47 +0000

The Royal Academy of Arts Outreach Programme has been running for 20 years delivering day-long, life drawing workshops to secondary and primary schools. The workshops explore the human figure using a wide variety of mark making techniques.

Last year we introduced live textiles responses such batik mark making and machine embroidery.

Student Example: Brenton 2008

Royal Academy of Art – Outreach Programme 2010

Mr. Sands — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:46:54 +0000

We have been hosting the Royal Academy of Arts Outreach Programme for several years and this is the second time we have documented the responses on departmentart. The workshops explore the human figure using a wide variety of mark making techniques and we have continued to develop our use of live textiles responses such batik mark making and machine embroidery.

Royal Academy Outreach Programme 2010

Pupil Example: Brenton 2010

Scott Mutter

Mr. Sands — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:21:09 +0000

Scott Mutter creates surreal and improbable photomontages using images from natural and man made environments.

Space Invader

Mr. Sands — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:49:07 +0000

Space Invader has been invading cities across the world for many years with his mosaic tiled creations. Invader has expanded his pixelated images by introducing the ‘Rubic Cube‘ at his recent ‘Low Fidelity‘ exhibition at the Lazarides Gallery, Rathbone Place, London.

Invader Example: G-Bot 2009

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR.

Student Blog: Surfaces and Nava Lubelski

Mr. Sands — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:17:59 +0000

This entry was written by Abbey who is currently studying Art and Design and Textiles in year 13

The idea of using stains as a theme for the surfaces project came accidentally when I lifted up my cup to see a ring stain left on a piece of cloth. I started to create and develop stains investigating how they reacted with different materials and surfaces e.g. paper, large wooded areas and fabric.

To extend the stains experiments further I introduced photographic chemicals and the Photogram/Raygram process inspired by Man Ray introducing a series of drips and exploring the positive and negative space.

I was very pleased with how the ring stains on the photogram turned out and decided to experiment with these pictures using ICT, scanning them onto photoshop and manipulating the colours.

From there I moved into 3D and relief casting as I wanted to explore the outcome of lifting the stains looking at the height and depth while using the same colour scheme from my ICT experiments.

Recently I have been experimenting with ‘accidental’ stains e.g where a cup of tea was thrown at a white dress, whilst maintaining the colour scheme from previous works. I’ve stitched around the stains to enhance them which is influenced by Nava Lubelski who stitches around stains on table cloths, canvas, paper and sheets to expose the beautiful, colourful abstract movement of the stain.

Nava Lubelski