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It has been another incredible year in the Art Department at BIS with students continuing to produce outstanding Artwork. This year has seen the introduction of the new darkroom and new iMacs with Adobe Creative Cloud to help give students broader Art making experience. We have also introduced different forms of sculpture in Key Stage 3 as a way of better preparing our students for the demands of the IB Visual Arts Diploma. Furthermore, we have also been busy with extra-curricular activities, which include designing and making the set for the production of Beauty and the Beast and designing and painting the new BIS chicken coup. This year’s Art Gallery Book is even bigger and once again showcases some of the best artwork created by our secondary school students. In their sketchbooks, students have explored different artists and experimented in a wide range of media and processes to develop their final pieces. We hope you enjoy looking through this incredible selection of student Artwork. Mr Richard Harrison Art Leader
Miss Goppert Art Teacher
Table of contents: Year 7 - Basic Skills Sketchbook Work
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Year 11 - Xin Jie (Valerie) Lua
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Year 7 - Basic Skills Final Pieces
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Year 11 - Hyun Bee (Hannah) Seo
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Year 7 - Surrealism
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Year 11 - Yeo Jin Choi
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Year 7 - Gargoyles
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Year 11 - Yea Rim Kim
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Year 8 - Natural Form Sketchbook Work
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Year 11 - Ye Jin Mun
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Year 8 - Natural Form Final Pieces
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Year 11 - Su Bin Kim
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Year 8 - Chicken Coup Designs
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Year 11 - Son Ha Duong
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Year 8 - Sweet Wrapper Sketchbook Work
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Year 11 - Vy Anh Su
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Year 8 - Sweet Wrapper Designs & Enlargements
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Year 11 - Final Pieces
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Year 9 - Stop Motion Animation
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Year 12 - Portraiture
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Year 9 - Phenakistoscopes
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Year 13 - Phuong Linh Nguyen
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Year 9 - Portraiture Skechbook Work
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Year 13 - Mai Trang Nguyen
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Year 9 - Portraiture Final Pieces
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Year 13 - Huong Thao Nguyen
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Year 9 - Giacometti Sketchbook Work
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Year 13 - Ngoc Hai Yen Tran
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Year 9 - Giacometti Final Pieces
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Year 13 - Cong Minh Do
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Year 10 - Viewpoints Sketchbooks
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Year 13 - Tuan Viet Nguyen
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Year 10 - Viewpoints Final Pieces
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Art ECA - Community Arts
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Year 11 - Role Models
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The Big Draw: Living Lines
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YEAR 7
Basic Skills - Sketchbook Work Year 7 began the year with a focus on the key formal elements in Art & Design. After exploring colour theory and mark making, students researched the impressionists and developed their own unique landscape composition inspired by ‘Starry Night’ by Vincent Van Gogh. Students used acrylic paint for their final landscape.
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YEAR 7
Basic Skills - Final Pieces
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YEAR 7
Surrealism This project gave students the opportunity to use their imagination and develop bizarre ideas and concepts inspired by Surrealism and Alice in Wonderland. Initially students researched different artwork by Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte before planning and creating their own surreal drawings of objects in different scales. These drawings were developed into final pieces using watercolour. Following this, students then explored mixed media outcomes inspired by ‘The False Mirror’ by Rene Magritte. To create the iris, students used a combination of PowerPoint and Adobe Photoshop to create a surreal 360 panoramic landscape.
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Gargoyles This project tested students’ ability to transfer 2D designs into 3D whilst working in groups. After researching different forms of gargoyles and creating a small half portrait of a gargoyle, students individually designed their own unique creature. Once in groups, students then developed a chosen design into 3D using numerous layers of screwed up paper and glue before painting them in a mixture of sand, acrylic and metallic paint.
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YEAR 8
Natural Forms - Sketchbook Work Year 8 began the year with a mixed media observational drawing project based on natural forms. Inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe, students focused on form, detail, texture and mark making to create an accurate pencil and pen study as well as a watercolour painting. After carefully planning different compositions in their sketchbook, students then cut up and combined their pieces into a carefully constructed montage to create their final piece.
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YEAR 8
Natural Forms - Final Pieces
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Chicken Coup Designs For this year’s design project, students were given the task of creating designs for a large-scale graffiti piece to decorate the new BIS Chicken Coup. Students did a fantastic job creating a wide range of designs that were given to students in our Community Arts ECA to develop further into stencils ready for spray painting.
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Sweet Wrappers - Sketchbook Work Inspired by the Pop Art movement, this project encouraged students to think about consumerism and explore this through the technique of Lino Printing. Students chose a piece of packaging, illustrated this carefully on a piece of rubber Lino and experimented printing in different colours on different papers. There was also an opportunity to scan these prints in and explore different ways of digitally editing them on Adobe Photoshop.
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Sweet Wrappers - Designs & Enlargements As an extension to Lino Printing, students learned how to use the grid method to enlarge a popular piece of confectionary packaging. They worked in small groups and used acrylic paint over a series of lessons. Students also had the opportunity to create their very own confectionary packaging design for homework.
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YEAR 9
Stop Motion Animation In this project, students researched and explored stop motion animation. Their task was to choose a simple process and animate this using cut out pieces of card using iMotion on an iPad. After the initial design process, students worked in pairs to select and develop a chosen design into a short animation. Different components to their design were presented on a board once their animation had been captured.
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Phenakistoscopes As part of this year’s Big Draw theme, Living Lines, students explored the earliest known form of animation, a Phenakistoscope. Initially students planned each frame of a basic movement in a storyboard in their sketchbooks. Students then created their own Phenakistoscope template before transferring and developing their designs. Once complete they were able to view and film their animations by spinning their phenakistoscope in front of a mirror. Some of our students demonstrated this process in the Big Draw assembly
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Phenakistoscopes
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Portraiture - Sketchbook Work Students learned how to improve the accuracy of their drawing and painting skills in this self-portrait project. It also gave students the opportunity to develop their digital art skills using Adobe Photoshop to edit their photographs and plan their final paintings. Once they had practiced different techniques in their sketchbooks, students created a final portrait inspired by Andy Warhol. Students used the grid method for improved accuracy and bright colours of acrylic paint.
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Portraiture - Final Pieces
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Giacometti - Sketchbook Work This project explored the many ways that Artists explore the human figure with a particular focus on the long and thin sculptures by Alberto Giacometti. Initially, students learned different techniques for drawing the figure in proportion before selecting a pose to transform into a Giacometti inspired sculpture design. Students used a combination of wire, modroc and acrylic paint to create their final sculptures.
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Giacometti - Final Pieces
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YEAR 10
Viewpoints - Sketchbook Work Students began their Art iGCSE with a skills project based on the theme of viewpoints. This included exploring a range of artists, a variety of art making processes as well as learning how to evidence development in their sketchbooks. iGCSE Art students are expected to develop independent ideas based on themes as they progress through the course. Following their Viewpoints project, students were given the opportunity to develop their viewpoints work independently in a series of sketchbook pages and a resolved outcome. These sketchbook samples show how a range of preparatory work and final pieces can come from the same starting point.
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Viewpoints - Final Pieces
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YEAR 11 PIB Role Models
Inspired by the iconic image of Barack Obama by Shepard Fairey, Year 11 PIB students were asked to choose a leader or role model from past or present and create a large-scale portrait using acrylic paint. As part of this project students had to try and provoke thought in the viewer by carefully selecting a word to accompany their painting. After using Adobe Photoshop to edit their image, students work with the grid method to enlarge their portrait.
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YEAR 11 - iGCSE XIn Jie (Valerie) Lua
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YEAR 11 iGCSE
Hyun Bee (Hannah) Seo
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YEAR 11 iGCSE Yeo Jin Choi
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YEAR 11 iGCSE Yea Rim Kim
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YEAR 11 iGCSE Ye Jin Mun
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YEAR 11 iGCSE Su Bin Kim
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YEAR 11 iGCSE Son Ha Duong
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YEAR 11 iGCSE Vy Anh Su
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YEAR 11 iGCSE Final Pieces
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YEAR 12 IB Visual Arts Portraiture
The first project in the IB Visual Arts course is portraiture. This is primarily a skills based project where students develop their knowledge of core art skills. This includes researching artists, observational drawing and sketchbook practice. As they progress through the project, students are given more freedom to develop their own concepts for their portraits. Many students opted to paint family members and explore their personal relationships using different techniques and artist influences. Some students chose to base their final portraits on celebrities and role models.
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YEAR 13 IB Visual Arts Phuong Linh Nguyen Theme: Communication
My exhibition was arranged in the corner of the room on 4 display boards. I wanted the audience to be curious about my installation first before viewing the rest of my artwork. I placed “Nostalgia” on a separate board to allow the audience to focus on the details of the painting. I also placed digital portraits “The Talking Gaze”, “Idiosyncratic Beauty” and ‘Our Patterns’ together which all share similar flower patterns, colours and themes of beauty. Finally, I placed “Mi Familia” and “Life as a painting” on the same board as they both share the same concept of family and authenticity of an individual.
Idiosyncratic Beauty
Seasons
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The Talking Gaze
Our Patterns
Nostalgia Mi Familia
Life as a Painting
Room of Noise 59
YEAR 13 IB Visual Arts Mai Trang Nguyen Theme: Contrast
I chose to set up the exhibition this way to highlight the most noticeable features of the work, using four boards placed up against the wall. I decided to group the artwork portraying the same sitter to show the contrast in media as well as the emotions evoked through each piece which further emphasised my theme. I created space for Mirrored Hands to allow viewers to step back and fully see the reflection of the hands in the mirror. Finally, I intentionally printed Cacophony on a large, vertical banner to resemble the layout of a Japanese scroll, presenting a contrast of traditional and modern Japan that is portrayed throughout my work.
Devalued
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Twisted Beauty
Malicious Charm
Burst
Tumultuous
How Ironic
Cacophony
Mirrored Hands 61
YEAR 13 IB Visual Arts Huong Thao Nguyen Theme: Identity
My exhibition itself was presented as my own journey in exploring my identity. It began with Self Portrait, a satirical oil painting that depicted the bitterness I had felt being unable to express who I was. Wanja, although an expression of gratitude towards the friend who has enabled me to realise my self-worth, also conveyed my acknowledgement of the positive external influences on my identity in general. Adaptation portrays the late awareness of my long-time coping mechanism to fabricate and replicate identities of those I found appealing, and the realisation that it was ultimately suffocating for my own identity and capabilities. Disassociation presented my growing loss of identity to mental illnesses, but also a hopeful attempt to separate my symptoms from my true nature. The last piece, Liberation, conceptualised my embracement of the things that make me different, particularly the fluidity in my gender identity that I had long been ashamed of.
Liberation
Exhibition 62
Self Portrait
Adaptation
Wanja
Disassociation 63
YEAR 13 IB Visual Arts Ngoc Hai Yen Tran Theme: Women & Strength
I decided to set up the exhibition so that the viewers could walk through the exhibition through a corridor so that they could make their way from “Mother” to “As Strong as Paper”. I deliberately hung up the ‘Skin’ piece instead of setting it against the display board to show the details that were more visible with light in the background. Overall, as the viewer made their way through the exhibition, they were able to understand the journey that I went through when I made each piece.
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OB.J
Mother
Self Discovery
Skin
Strong as Paper
Don’t let me drown
Street Hero
Double Edged Knife 65
YEAR 13 IB Visual Arts
Cong Minh Do Theme: Consumerist Vietnam My exhibition was set up in a corner on 2 display boards and a table. I wanted people to have an insight into the evolution of Vietnamese society condensed into one small area rather than distributed widely. This was to make the rapid changes in consumerism in Vietnam instantly clear to the viewer. The piece ‘Plastic’ was intentionally displayed to be viewed from multiple angles and allowed the viewer to recognise the different ways plastic and advances is consumerism have impacted the environment.
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Modern Logos
Yumfee
Growth
Reflection
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YEAR 13 IB Visual Arts
Tuan Viet Nguyen Theme: Construction & Deconstruction I established two monitors (iMacs) in the middle as if it revealed my personal conflicting feeling towards process of construction and deconstruction in my hometown as well as in Vietnam. The other final pieces were then spread on two sides to give the observers a clear view of the source of my inner conflict.
Instrument of Change
Exhibition 68
Upside Down
Sapa Inception
Undesirable Disturbance
Uncovered Reality 69
Art ECAs
Community Arts
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The Big Draw 2017 Living Lines
The Big Draw is all about getting everyone involved in drawing and creating Artwork so the Art department and students visiting Tanzania collaborated on the Big Draw Canvas Project. The aim of this project was to raise funds at the Art auction on International Day with money raised going towards supplies and service work that our students would be doing in Tanzania. Every class throughout BIS, all way from F1 to Year 12, created a piece of Artwork to sell at auction. There were some incredibly original pieces created with all kinds of Art media, techniques and processes. At the live auction there were some highly sought after pieces of Art work with a number of paintings reaching over 5 Million VND each! There was also a very successful silent auction and in total a huge total of over $2000 was raised for the students to use for their service work in Tanzania. The whole event was once again a fantastic way of highlighting the impact that Art can have on our students and wider community as well as the importance of creativity in schools.
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