WAVAZINE 2

Wellington Academy Visual Arts

Holli Sugden - Yr 10 Photography Exam

Issue 2

Miss Smith

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Welcome A warm welcome to the second issue of ‘Wavazine’ the Visual Arts magazine from the Wellington Academy.

In this issue our feature story is ‘Creative Textiles’. A relatively new curriculum offering which is proving a popular choice for students at GCSE, one we hope will soon become a popular choice for students at AS/A’Level.

Mr Greenwood - Director of Visual Arts

I am constantly amazed by our students creativity. Now we have relocated to the excellent new premises I look forward to every new day, and the challenges that it brings. With summer soon here, I’m ready for a jolly good rest. Enjoy this issue of Wavazine, and have a safe and enjoyable summer break.

Mr Rogers - Art Teacher

Although a fully trained art teacher, I have only recently begun teaching the subject again. I studied Community Art while at university and specialised in silk-screen printing in my final year. As a medium, I particularly enjoy acrylic paints and take a lot of my inspiration from my favourite artist Edward Hopper. The facilities in Art at the Wellington Academy are fantastic and I am really enjoying my time in the department. In my own time, I enjoy the gym and cycling Mrs Wooler - Art Teacher

As the new addition to the department, I am enjoying my time getting to know the staff and students at the Wellington Academy. I am particularly impressed with all the new Macs having gained a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design at Derby University. Although, trained in the discipline of Graphics, I have a keen interest in painting and really enjoy the diversity that teaching art brings! Outside work, I love to travel, I have white water rafted down the Ganges, replanted mangroves in Equador and swam with dolphins in New Zealand.

Miss Smith - Art Teacher “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” Einstein.

Since starting at the Academy in September it has been a great pleasure taking the journey of creativity with the students, watching them grow in confidence and self-belief. The staff and students have been so welcoming and the move into the new building is an experience that will last forever.

Keep up the hard work everyone. The summer is upon us! Yay! Miss Biddiss - Art Teacher

Miss Westwood - Visual Arts Technician

Miss Biddiss studies Contemporary Art and Design through Bath Spa University, and is interested in assemblage, 3D and mixed media. She really enjoys visiting different countries to learn about other cultures.

I am looking forward to heading out to some festivals this summer and possibly having the time to do some of my own art work. Hope you all have a great break!

Miss Tucker will be joining us in September as a new member of the team We hope you enjoy this copy of Wavazine and welcome any comments or feedback.You can contact us on wava@thewellingtonacademy.org.uk You may also follow us on the internet platforms below, by visiting the Visual Arts website.

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Welcome to our new home The Visual Arts department is situated at the far end of the main wing within the new academy building and overlooks the sports fields.

Our rooms are of generous proportions and with large windows which benefit from excellent light and views.

We have 3 large studios, an excellent digital arts studio and superb painting/study space for 6th form students.

One of the new Art Studios All studios are equipped with secure interactive whiteboards and the large colour-coded tables allow for group work activities.

All studios benefit from many storage systems allowing all students to have a personal space to store their creations.

View from the Art department The Digital Art studio has a full compliment of Apple Mac’s, which can dual-boot to allow students the choice of working in either Mac or Windows. (Below) Sixth Form Area Keep up to date with all of the goings on in the Arts Department by following us on our dedicated website; http://thewellingtonacademy.org.uk/wava

The Digital Art Studio

Snap the QR code (using the camera on your smartphone) to go to an e-version of this issue. NB:You will need a QR code reader app, such as: BeeTag. It is compatible with most hand held devices, and mobile phones too. So you can enjoy our work directly from the palm of your hand, where ever you happen to be!

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FEATURED – Brit-Art (Year 9 GCSE) Creative Textiles In this issue it gives me great pleasure to share with you some of the work that our BritArt Textiles students have recently created. This is a new subject that was introduced into the Visual Arts department last September, and has been a popular choice of subject amongst our Year 9 and Year 10 students.

Textiles is a creative and versatile discipline with many applications in the art, fashion, furnishing and retail industries. The emphasis of this ‘hands on’ course is a creative approach to textiles; which encourages an understanding of the role of textiles as a medium used by many artists, designers and craftspeople.

Students have recently completed their first outcome in their ‘Figurative’ project for their GCSE coursework. This feature showcases some of the unique and imaginative work that our students have created for one of their three key assignments – A5: Applique and Machine Stitched Portrait.

Nicole Mascarinas

Lauren O’Neill Ailsa McDougall

Students were asked to create a ‘fabric canvas’ based on their own exploration and research of the given theme ‘Figurative’ focusing on the techniques of hand and machine Applique.

All of the above work and many more fine examples are currently on display inside the Visual Art department in room 0-24.

On behalf of the Visual Arts staff, I’d like to express my appreciation of the hard work undertaken by all students during this assignment, and look forward with pride, to the many more fine works of art our students create at the academy.

Miss Samantha Smith (Teacher of Visual Arts)

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Yana Sealy Bell

Lauren O’Neill

Nicole Mascarinas

Scheme of work Sampler board for Creative Textiles current project - Environment

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Curriculum A key change to our Visual Arts curriculum, was the renaming of the year groups to Artistic movements. The choice of each Art movement goes some way to reflect the content students will be studying that year.

Fauves (Year 7) Fauvism is the style of les Fauves (French for “the wild beasts”), a short-lived and loose group of early twentieth-century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism.While Fauvism as a style began around 1900 and continued beyond 1910, the movement as such lasted only a few years, 1904–1908, and had three exhibitions.The leaders of the movement were Henri Matisse and André Derain.

The Fauves (Year 7) Art & Design students have recently completed their Watercolour Painting, using all of their previous skills and knowledge of advanced colour theory.

The subject matter was based on the theme ‘Flowers’ which students explored through visual research and still life observational drawings.

Each student’s outcome was independent and a wide range of colour schemes were used including monochromatic, complementary to triad. Illustrated is a collage of many outcomes from the class groups Rouault and Braque.

Flower Outcomes Collage

Surrealists (Year 8) Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members.Surrealist works feature the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non sequitur; however, many Surrealist artists and writers regard their work as an expression of the philosophical movement first and foremost, with the works being an artefact. Leader André Breton was explicit in his assertion that Surrealism was above all a revolutionary movement.

Over the course of year 8, students have built up a range of skills

within their art lessons. They have looked at colour, the relationship between music and art and developed an understanding of the work of other artists.

In their current project, the Surrealists are taking these learnt skills and developing them within a research project on an independently chosen artist. The artist can be from any point in history and using any material. Each student has chosen an artist they are inspired by and have begun their research into who they are, what they do, what their influences are/were etc.

Shannon Miller - Inspired by Roy Lichenstein

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Students will produce an A3 copy of their artists work to gain further understanding of the style, with the final outcome being a piece of work they have designed but in the style of their artist - keep an eye out for the next WAVAZINE to see the results.

Bauhaus ( Year 9, 10, 11 - BTEC) Bauhaus, was a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, and was famous for the approach to design that it publicised and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. At that time the German term Bauhaus, literally “house of construction” The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar. It was founded with the idea of creating a ‘total’ work of art in which all arts, including architecture would eventually be brought together.The Bauhaus had a profound influence upon subsequent developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, and typography.

Year 9 BTEC students have been working on a project called ‘A Tribute to Gormley’, with the theme of ‘a figure in action’.

Having successfully completed their final figure in action paintings they had begun to explore the techniques that Gormley is so well known for - 3D figurative sculptures.

Taking inspiration from their paintings, students created a 3D card maquette; a small scale model/plan for a sculpture; in the pose of their figure in action painting.

This stage of the project gave students the opportunity to develop key skills in building, problem solving and an understanding of the process a working artist/sculptor would follow.

Sophie Thackwell

After the successful completion of the year 10 and 11 ‘Objects’ project, year 10 students moved on to looking at the Art and culture of Africa.

This project gave students the opportunity to explore the culture of a continent that is widely varied and rich in patterned fabrics, intricate wood carvings, expressive dance and characteristic masks.

Students experimented with a wide variety of materials to understand the markmaking that represents the diverse civilizations within Africa. The results of these experiments and explorations show a clear understanding of the textures, colours and shapes that are used.

Katie Benstead

The final outcomes for this project; an African inspired mask with woven rafia and wool mounted on a printed background; demonstrate independent representations of a unique culture and some very interesting masks were created. Visit the e-Gallery to see some examples.

Within the arts it is important to explore art of all kinds, which is something that the BTEC course offers. Year 11 students were given the opportunity for their final project to research a number of different artists whose focus of work is Natural Forms, for example, Georgia O’Keeffe, Beatriz Milhazes and Dixie Appleton-Wahl.

The students experimented with different materials and techniques to achieve representations of the artists work that they were looking at. Each student chose an artist to focus on and produced their own design in the style of their chosen artist - the results were fantastic!!

Jaimi Vincent

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Brit-Art (Year 9, 10, 11 - GCSE & Yr 12 +13 AS/A’Level) Young British Artists or YBAs (also referred to as Brit artists and Britart) is the name given to a loose group of visual artists who first began to exhibit together in London, in 1988. Many of the artists graduated from the BA Fine Art course at Goldsmiths, in the late 1980s.The scene began around a series of artist-led exhibitions held in warehouses and factories.They are noted for “shock tactics”, use of throwaway materials, wild-living, and an attitude “both oppositional and entrepreneurial.”They achieved considerable media coverage and dominated British art during the 1990s—international survey shows in the mid-1990s included Brilliant! and Sensation.

I am so proud to be able to share with you a selection of the amazing work our students recently created for their GCSE final examinations. Both Art & Design and Digital Photography students in years 10 and 11 endured 6 weeks of exam development and preparations followed with a hefty 10 hour final examination, which I must add how impressed I was at how all students conducted themselves.

It is a testament to the students and staff in within the Visual Arts (WAVA) that many yr10 students have opted to study a short-course GCSE during yr11, and also that many yr11 students have decided to continue their creativity by studying one of the many AS/A’Level courses that we now offer to our students here at the academy.

Kerri Hannington Digital Photography

Here are some more examples of examination pieces, which I hope you will enjoy: Zap the QR Codes for your digital copy!

On the cover of this issue is an excellent example of Photography by Holly Sugden.

Lucy Washington - Art

During recent exam and coursework moderation’s conducted by the Visual Arts team, we were frankly ‘blownaway’ with the standard, depth and energy within Holly’s photographic journals and final outcomes.

Well done Holly!

Good luck to ALL GCSE students with your results.

Ashley Sheridan - Digital Photography

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Mr James Greenwood (Director of Visual Arts)

Nouveau - (GCSE Short Courses) Creative Textiles and Digital Photography Art Nouveau is an international philosophy and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that were most popular during 1890–1905.The name “Art Nouveau” is French for “new art”. It is known also as Jugendstil, German for “youth style” A reaction to academic art of the 19th century, it is characterised by organic-- especially floral and other plantinspired-- motifs, as well as very stylised, flowing curvilinear forms.Art Nouveau is a philosophy of design according to which artists should work on everything from architecture to furniture, making art part of ordinary life.

After the successful completion of the examinations last term, year 10 have moved onto some new and exciting short course GCSE classes. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome to the visual arts department our new short course GCSE students Starr, Lough Jr, Adams, Dewar and Buckle, who have embarked on an exciting one year journey within the many disciplines that the department offers such as Photography, Art and Creative Textiles.

The students currently follow a similar scheme of work to the full GCSE students and so far have been working extremely hard on their assignments which respond to a variety of themes from Portraiture to The Environment.

Art Club and Clinic To coincide with the opening of the new building, we have launched a competition in our KS3 Art club for students to produce a piece of work inspired by our brand new surroundings.

Students began the project by going around the school completing 10 minute sketches of different viewpoints. They then had the opportunity to use a DSLR camera to take a photo of their favourite view. Back at the studio, they started work on making a pencil drawing of their photo. Students are currently working on the design for their final outcome which will be their own response to their chosen viewpoint.They can choose to work with a range of materials, including acrylic paint, oil and chalk pastel, charcoal and graphite sticks. Responses can be abstract or more realistic, too. The final outcomes will be judged by a specially selected panel, including Mr Greenwood, and the winner will receive a voucher for Art materials. His/her work will also be framed and displayed in the Principal’s office!

Newcomers are always welcome to KS3 Art Club. We meet on Wednesdays in room 1-41 3.15-4.15pm.

Art Club students at work

Art Clinic is designed for Brit Art and Bauhaus students and is also held every Wednesday from 3pm to 4:00pm. This gives older students vital time to improve, extend and polish their course work, with expert help on hand to guide them.

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Competitions Here in the Visual Arts department at The Wellington Academy, our aim is to inspire you to produce art in a variety of mediums to the best standard that you are capable. Within the classroom setting you are shown a range of techniques and skills to help you develop your ideas. If you enjoy being creative and like to use your creativity and imagination out of lessons as well, there are many opportunities available for you.

Currently running nationwide are a number of competitions, some with the opportunity to win ‘money’, some with the chance to have your design printed on a sketchbook cover and others with the opportunity to have your work displayed online and in one of the most prestigious galleries in the world!!

Read on and see which competitions appeal to you. You can enter as many as you like, some even have fortnightly or monthly chances to enter.

Check out the posters and websites for details, here is a summary of each competition: • Pink Pig – Design a sketchbook cover – www.yourpiglet.co.uk - winner every 2 months, with their design printed on sketchbook covers and a prize of £300 • Face Britain – Produce a self portrait – www.facebritain.org.uk - upload online until March 2012 – entries will be part of a collaborative art work with the aim to make a Guinness World Record!

• The RSPCA Young photographers Awards – www.rspca.org.uk/ypa - National animal photography competition – see online for the list of prizes – deadline 5 Sept 2011 • Look and Learn – Monthly themed art competitions - http://art.lookandlearn.com/competition.php cash prizes every month – all entries go into a permanent online gallery • Saatchi – http://saatchigallery.co.uk/portfolio/ - ask you art teacher for more details – first prize £10,000 plus the opportunity to have your work displayed in The Saatchi Gallery!

This work can be done at home, digitally, 3D, collage, paint, pencil…You can work on it at home, during lunch or afterschool.

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Useful Links: Textiles Origin: The Contemporary Craft Fair Following its successful integration into the London Design Festival last year, Origin: The Contemporary Craft Fair will return to Old Spitalfields Market from 22-28 September 2011. Zap the QR code (right) or use the short URL

New Designers Now in its 26th year, New Designers is unrivalled in Europe in bringing together such a broad cross-section of fresh, new design talent under one roof. Every July, over 3,500 newly graduated designers, representing the top 200 UK design courses, come together at New Designers to meet industry employers, media, trend predictors and a design hungry public. Zap the QR code (right) or use the short URL

The Knitting and Stitching Show 2011: The definitive and best exhibitions for lovers of textiles in the UK and Ireland. As the name suggests, it covers knitting and stitching but SO much more; felt-making, shibori dyeing, jewellery-making, card-making, mixed media... the list goes on! There is so much to see and do you’ll find it hard to fit everything into one day; hundreds of exhibitors selling specialist supplies that you can’t find in the shops, galleries from leading artists and groups, plus hundreds of workshops to introduce you to lots of new subjects! Zap the QR code (right) or use the short URL

Art and Design SmartHistory This website is the result of years of teaching experience and the beauty of intuitive Web design. If you’re new to art history, start in the Basics under Themes. Otherwise, select a Time, Style, or Artist of your choice to begin your art history journey.

Zap the QR code (right) or use the short URL.

Cycles: African Life through Art Indianapolis Museum of Art with Terra Incognita Productions - This gorgeous and exciting site will engage you with a trulymultimedia experience of audio, videos, Quick Time Virtual Reality movies, and graphics. Broader truths about life, ritual, and culture are revealed through this seamless multimedia experience of the museum’s collections of African art.You’ll need the free Flash player and the Quicktime Plug-in. Zap the QR code (right) or use the short URL.

Photography Perfectlytimedphotos.com Perfectly Timed Photos is a collection of Pics taken at just the right moment.. This is a lighted hearted site just for fun!

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Gallery

Lily Spanswick - Camoin Zoe Bradbury - Rouault

Nathan Mandoll - Rouault Callum Cook - Rouault

Holly Johnson - Rouault

Aaron Lynch - Miro Katie Taylor - Miro

Kyle Back - Ernst

Rebecca Matthews

Chloe Cavannah - Miro (Textiles) Ailsa McDougall - Bayer

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Mein Pike - Mies Van Der Rohe

- Fauves - Surrealists - Bauhaus

Jack Smith - Gropius

Katie Benstead - Citroen

Georgia Lougher - Fauves Kyle Vasson - Fauves

Annie Tricker - Citroen

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Gallery

Lauren O’Neill - Collishaw Tom Goddard - Photography - Collishaw

Alix Williams - Photography - Collishaw

Touria Ghafry - Photography - Lucas

Lewis Bourne - Dalwood

Daniel Reynolds - Dalwood

Aimee Williams- Hirst

Key - Britart - GCSE Kanchan Limbu - Savillevel Kerri Hannington - Hirst

- Britart - AS Level

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