Posted: 15th November 2024
The art department regularly recognises the achievements of individual pupils in the senior school through the award of the title, ‘Artist of the Moment’. Entries cover a wide range of disciplines, including drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, installation and mixed media celebrating the diverse talents of pupils in our co-educational day school.
Our artist of the moment this week was a difficult choice! Mrs Brewer was really impressed with the work of ALL the pupils in 4P and would like to celebrate the work of everyone.
However, it was Tom that went the extra mile. The work created by all showed much finesse and dexterity of line. All illustrated a clear understanding of the formal elements and have created such autonomous, graphic outcomes. But Tom even managed to get his own name celebrated, right in the centre of his work. Well done to all though. Fantastic work.
Rosa in Upper Fifth has been inspired by the work of Gwen Seemel and created these fantastic mixed media pieces from primary source. Working in this style so early in her project has been beneficial to aid the development of her ideas. Discussions about colour, shape and form have already taken place and her work will begin to transcend into three-dimensional textile work as her project ascends . Well done Rosa, great work!
The Lower Sixth A Level Art group have been responding to the theme of ‘Structure’ for their coursework. Rosie has created these gelli prints which are a form of printmaking where thin layers of acrylic paint are rolled onto the gelli and printed. Paper stencils can be used to mask off shapes, creating interesting positive and negative shapes. Rosie has been inspired by the contemporary artist Rachel Whiteread and her ‘House ‘ series, in which the artist cast the entirety of a disused house. Rosie has already cast blocks of plaster into stair shapes and small-scale built interiors. This series of gelli prints are a development of this 3D exploration. This is exciting work Rosie, well done.
This week we celebrate the work of Morgan in Lower Fifth. These stunning graphic compositions have been created as a research homework – demonstrating the contemporary style of David Carson. You can see that Morgan has clear ability in format and control of shape and form. They are outstanding pages that illustrate a clear understanding of the artists’ work. He also added some of his own work to the assignment, which were also extremely successful. Great work Morgan, well done!
