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Maurizio Anzeri

Mr. Sands — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:08:25 +0000

Maurizio Anzeri creates embroidered or sculptured photographs using symmography. The visual narratives are selected from vintage photographs found in secondhand markets and rather than wrapping thread around pins Maurizio Anzeri penetrates the photograph with thread. The needle work creates creative costumes for the sitter, evoke a psychological aura or express emotion of feeling through his textiles doodles.

Level 3 Psycho Portraiture Project

Learners Response: Jodie 2012

Katsushika Hokusai

Mr. Sands — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:17:32 +0000

Katsushika Hokusai was a leading printer and Japanese ukiyo-e (floating landscapes) painter who is most famous for his iconic print entitled ‘The Great Wave off Kanagawa‘. The Great Wave which formed part of a 46 print series called ‘The Thirty Six Views of Mount Fuji‘ were championed as part of the post 1880 Parisian ’Japonesque‘ craze. This influence of the constant foci and repetitive pursue of the primary landscape is clearly evident in Claude Monet‘s Haystack/Wheatstack series on 1890-1891.

‘Textile Great Wave’

Learner Example: Billie-Jean 2011

Level 3 BTEC Textiles Brief: Repeat Pattern

Mr. Sands — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:32:57 +0000

This is your Level 3 Art Textiles brief entitled Repeat Pattern. You can assess your progress whilst exploring and experimenting with historical and contemporary pattern and surface design, whilst consolidating Art Textiles skills such as Serigraphy, Digital/Analog Image Manipulation and Printing.

Learner Example: Bobby 2011

Level 2 BTEC Brief: Fashion Food and Drink

Mr. Sands — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 23:01:19 +0000

This is your Level 2 Textiles brief entitled Fashion Food and Drink. You can assess your progress whilst exploring and experimenting with Fashion Design and Fashion Textiles.

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.

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

Ralph Goings

Mr. Sands — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:39:19 +0000

Ralph Goings is a photorealist painter who has captured a slice of American popular culture in his studies of Diners, Condiments and Food and Drink. This work has influenced our Food and Drink/Supersized project.

Supersized project

Pupil Example: Rachel 2010

Laura Oldfield Ford: Malthouse Project

Mr. Sands — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:04:13 +0000

Our Learners will embark on a 5 day workshop with the artist Laura Oldfield Ford. They will be collaborating on a large scale mapping project that looks at hidden narratives, alternative futures and community housing within the city. All work will be exhibited Saturday 17th July – Friday 30th July 2010. (Private View Friday 16th July 5 – 7 pm)

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

Exam Showcase: Work, Rest and Play.

Mr. Sands — Mon, 10 May 2010 20:27:28 +0000

Here are some Art and Design and Art Textiles examples from our GCSE examinations on the theme of ‘Work, Rest and Play’. Enjoy!

Laura McCafferty

Mr. Sands — Mon, 10 May 2010 12:34:35 +0000

Laura McCafferty is a textiles artist who blends Textiles and Illustration to create snapshots of social events and environjments with warmth, sensitivity and humour. Her technique of combining Appliqué, Stitch, Surface Pattern, Print and Illustration have inspired our KS4 Examination themed ‘Work, Rest and Play’.

Work, Rest and Play: Rest

Pupil Example: Amy 2010

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

Young BRITS at Art

Mr. Sands — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:49:42 +0000

Young BRITS at Art is a national art award which is funded by the Equality and Human Rights Commission and delivered via artist led workshops throughout the UK. Our learners were asked to produce creative outcomes that explore their beliefs, opinions and judgments to the theme: “What would the world look like if we lived without prejudice?”

The right to your sexuality

Pupil Example: Rachel 2010

Pupil Example: Liz 2010

The right to equal access for those with a disability

Pupil Example: Dean 2010

Pupil Example: Jodie 2010

The right to freedom of speech

Pupil Example: Daniella 2010

The right to an education

Pupil Example: Sophie 2010

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

Tinhead

Mr. Sands — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:53:05 +0000

Tinhead otherwise known as Christopher Wright is a UK based experimental Illustrator and mixed media artist. His work consists of lo-tech illustrations and mixed media collage/compositions that pay homage to the early Pop Art aesthetic of early Richard Hamilton and Peter Blake et al. Tinhead’s work features on The Foals debut album ‘Antidotes’.

Alternative Portrait Project

Pupil Example: Liz 2010

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

Pablo Picasso

Mr. Sands — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:16:47 +0000

Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous and prolific artists of the 20th Century. Picasso produced work in a wide variety of medium such as Painting, Print Making, Sculpture, Ceramics and Photography, navigating themes/movemnets including the Blue and Rose period, Symbolism, African, Cubism, Neo-Classicism, Surrealism and Abstraction.

Alternative Portrait Project:

Pupil Example: Alicia 2006

Pupil Example: Lauren 2006

Summer School 2009

Mr. Sands — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:39:34 +0000

The Barking and Dagenham Summer School Art Exhibition featuring some of our Year 9 pupils drawings and mark making directly from inside the Olympic site.

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

BTEC Certificate and Award

Mr. Sands — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:47:07 +0000

Here are our new information leaflets to promote our BTEC Certificate and Award courses.

Photographic/Graphics Project: Surfaces and Stains

Pupil Example: Abby 2009