Wellington Academy Visual Arts
Grace Connor - Yr 9
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Welcome Welcome to the first issue of Wavazine, the Visual Arts magazine for The Wellington Academy. We aim to keep you abreast with all the goings on in our exciting new department and inspire you with some stunning examples of our students work. Meet our exceptional team and find out how to contact us below
Mr Greenwood
Mr Greenwood - Director of Visual Arts at The Wellington Academy. Studied Art & Design at Huddersfield Technical College (now Kirklees College) after leaving secondary school. Gained BA (Hons) at Warwick University, before starting a career within education in Solihull. I enjoy a passion for the Arts, and love the teaching of it. In my free time I like to head to the coast in pursuit of perfect waves.
Miss Smith studied Contemporary Textile Practise at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff. During her time at university she specialised as an Artist/Maker, making very creative conceptual pieces of textile artwork, which went on to be exhibited across Miss Smith Wales, Japan and China.
Mrs Bidiss
Mrs Taylor has a BA Hons Combined Arts degree in Art with Art History as well as a many years teaching experience. She is a big fan of the artist Beryl Cook and Picasso. Mrs Taylor
Miss Biddiss studies Contemporary Art and Design through Bath Spa University, and is interested in assemblage, 3D and mixed media. One artist whom she is inspired by is the American painter and sculptor Robert Rauschenberg. Miss Biddiss really enjoys photography and visiting different countries to learn Miss Westwood about other cultures.
Miss Westwood is the Visual Arts Technician. She studied Art and Design at the university of Exeter. She then went on to complete her PgDip in Modern and Contemporary Art at Winchester School of Art. She likes rock music, festivals and stained glass.
Mrs Wooler will also be joining the Visual Arts department on a full time basis after easter.
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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The Future We are very much looking forward to the move to our new building after Easter. The new Visual Arts department benefits from four bespoke studios, which will allow the key disciplines within the Arts to flourish. The new facilities boast a purpose built Digital Photography studio, complete with a full suite of Apple Mac desktop computers, a Creative Textiles room housing a class set of sewing machines, a Ceramics workshop for 3D work and a very large open plan fine art studio.
The entrance to The Wellington Academy
New Courses In September we introduced the new subject of Creative Textiles into the Academies curriculum. This proved to be a popular choice for students at GCSE, and currently in year 9 students that chose this subject are enjoying the creation of many textile related projects. View of the Art Department
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 You can also access a digital copy of this issue here: Snap the QR code above (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!
At Ks3 ‘ Creative textiles’ has also been introduced as a core Visual Arts subject. This addition has given the curriculum breadth, and allows students to express themselves creatively in an alternative way to the traditional subject of Art. If you are currently studying a Visual Arts course at Ks4, consider also the pursuit of one of our A level offerings. Our A level courses will provide you with an excellent opportunity to study Art & Design, Textiles or Digital Photography at Ks5. Speak to one of your Arts teachers for further details.
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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 (Yr 7) art & design students recently sat a controlled test, used to assess knowledge, understanding and application of key art skill on the subject of ‘Colour Theory’. Prior to this students had been learning about Primary Secondary and Tertiary Colours, as well as the concepts of Hue, tone, Tints and Shades. Since then students have been working towards their main outcome for this project which is a painting, using all of their previous skills and knowledge and using a colour scheme.
Colour Wheel - Chloe Stephens
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.
The Surrealists have recently completed their final outcome on their current project, ‘Response to Music’ Students explored the connection between feelings and emotions and the notion of self expression in art. Mainly focussing on the work of Kandinsky, who himself was deeply inspired by music, the pupils have experimented with colour, line and shape whilst listening to music. Kandinsky inspired collage, composed of various students work
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This project has culminated with an A3 expressive abstract watercolour painting.
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 publicized and taught. It operated from 1919 to 1933. At that time the German term About this sound Bauhaus, literally “house of construction” (help·info) stood for “School of Building”.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 style became one of the most influential currents in Modernist architecture and modern design.The Bauhaus had a profound influence upon subsequent developments in art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design, and typography.
Year 9 Bauhuas Students are working on a project titled ‘A tribute to Gormley’ Pupils are working on the theme of the figure in action. To this end they have explored techniques in figure drawing, such as the ‘bubble bloke’ technique. Currently they are working on their final figure in action painting. Year 10 & 11 Bauhaus students have just completed their final outcome on their current project, ‘Objects’ This is a 3D project where students are creating a large paper mache sculpture of an every day object, based on the work of Claes Oldenburg. Claes Oldenburg
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Oldenburg then places this large scale object into the landscape. Bauhaus students will do the same and photograph their sculpture in situ, considering the setting of the work.
Art Club and Clinic
Miss Smith and Miss Biddiss run our Key Stage 3 Art Club every Wednesday. Our first project involved students learning how to use air drying clay to make their own tiles. Our students also experimented with acrylic paints to add colour to their work. Some fantastic tiles were produced, and they made excellent gifts for friends and family Our most recent project has been portrait drawing which has offered students in Key Stage 3 the opportunity to gain valuable drawing skills and techniques which are also taught on our GCSE portraiture course. Students used mirrors to study carefully their own facial proportions. They then went on to draw a full size pencil portrait, and the results were outstanding.
Thomas De Bruijn
In term 4 students will participate in workshops including using Chinese Ink and brushes to paint their own names and a 3D project in which students will design and create a sculpture based on the artist Jason Scarpace. Newcomers are very welcome, and if you are interested in joining the workshop, please see Miss Smith or Miss Biddiss for more information, or come and see us in A2 on Wednesdays 3.15pm-4.15pm. Art Clinic is designed for Brit-Art and Bauhaus students and is also held every Wednesday from 3pm to 4:30pm. This gives older students vital time to improve, extend and polish their course work, with expert help on hand to guide them.
By Kelly Alexander
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Featured - Brit-Art (Year 9, 10, 11 - GCSE) Young British Artists or YBAs[1] (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, beginning in 1988 with the Damien Hirst-led Freeze and, in 1990, East Country Yard Show and Modern Medicine.They are noted for “shock tactics”, use of throwaway materials, wildliving, 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.
In this issue it gives me great joy in sharing with you some of the fantastic work that BritArt students have recently created. Portraiture is a traditional subject and historically, portraiture has been the inspiration for many artists. Studying portraiture can be both rewarding and frustrating, and requires passion, energy and commitment. Recently students have been working on a ‘Portrait’ project for their coursework unit on the GCSE course, in this feature we share with you some of the brilliant work that our students have created for one of four key assignments - A1:Pencil Portraits. The brief given to students is to work big, and include ‘expression’ within their chosen subject, and the medium of choice is the humble pencil. The cover page for this issue of ‘WAVAZINE’ showcases the talent of Grace Connor in year 9 (Dalwood). To see this work up close provides a delightful feast on your visual senses. Grace not only answered the brief perfectly, but also demonstrated skill, and an eye for detail very early on in her study of the GCSE course.
Artist: Lewis Boyes Class: Dalwood Link: http://bit.ly/euv65n
Artist: Amy Williams Class: Hirst Link: http://bit.ly/fbVzvl
Artist: Lucy Washington Class: Hirst Link: http://bit.ly/dKox6T
All of the above work and many more fine examples are currently on display inside the Visual Art department. If ever you visit, they are well worth a visit in RL to appreciate the scale and impact of the work. For more detail, and information about this assignment, visit the assignment page on our learning site here: http://bit.ly/fRCKk5 On behalf of the Visual Art department, 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. Mr James Greenwood (Director of Visual Arts)
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Artist : Grace Connor.
You can access a copy of this work here: http://bit.ly/i6ZyHA
Useful Links: Textiles
http://www.ftmlondon.org/ -The Fashion and Textile Museum http://www.textilearts.net/directory/ - TextileArts.Net - TextileArts. net focuses on the practice and study of textiles as an art form. http://www.flickr.com/groups/contemporarytextileart/ Flickr - Useful resource when looking for inspiration and visual images related to Contemporary Textiles.
Photography SplashUp - Free online image editor. Splashup,, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With the features professionals use and novices want, it’s easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once: http://bit.ly/hPSvUR PhotoFunia - PhotoFunia is an online photo editing tool that gives you a fun filled experience.You upload any photo and just wait to see the magic. Our proprietary technology automatically identifies the face in the photo and let’s you add cool photo effects and create funny face photo montages: http://bit.ly/eiEyS5 PicArtia - Create a photo mosaic of your choice for free online. PicArtia helps you to create your photo mosaic online for free. It is popular for being fast, easy and free: http://bit.ly/gvbPhj
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Gallery
Emma Jane Smith - Fauves
Kyle Vasson - Fauves
Georgia Lougher - Fauves Chloe Bland - Surrealists
Danielle Thompson - Fauves Olivia Vaughan - Surrealists
Katie Taylor - Surrealists
Shannen Walsh- Bauhaus
Bradley Botha-Jones - Surrealists
Ashley Taylor - Bauhaus
Katie Moult - Bauhaus
Kerri Hannington - BritArt
Holli Sugden - BritArt
Kanchan Limbu - BritArt (Saville)
Ella Louise Baldwin - BritArt (Saville)
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Elizabeth Dougerty - Brit Art