Fiona Grady is a contemporary artist that works with vibrant colour and geometric shapes. She often works with vinyl directly onto glass windows. Today Fiona worked with some Year 7 students, showing them her technique in making vinyl art works.
Y10 experimenting
Y10 have been playing with materials to look at surface texture. I love these pieces, they could be paintings in their own right….
Year 9 at the Tate – Olafur Eliasson
Year 9 visited the Eliasson exhibition at the Tate today, to explore how art can be experienced… I think they particularly loved the fog tunnel and the rainbow room. #tatemodern #olafureliasson
Cindy Sherman Documentary….
Starring some St Marylebone students….
Has some adult content – screened after the watershed..
BBC film about Cindy Sherman at the National Portrait Gallery.
Five students in Year participated in a film about the work of photographer Cindy Sherman. They were very critical and very articulate…It was fantastic to be in the exhibition before it opens to the public. Â I look forward to the airing in August.
A Matter of Time
In response to Sam Taylor Wood’s piece
https://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/matter-time
… some Year 7’s have been making their own rotting still life…
Freelands Foundation Visit
Last week, a groups of Y10 artists visited the Freelands Gallery to see their exhibition called repeat repeat. The exhibition is based on the everyday repetitions of some artists. They explored the work and discussed it with the staff. Now they will be responding to the work as part of their course.