FINE ART

Prepare for Year 12 by:

Task 1: Visit a wide range of exhibitions. You will need to see some national collections as well as local contemporary shows which you can research on-line or find listed in the free publication Time Out. Within easy reach of Hackney are The Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Modern, National Portrait Gallery, The Photographers Gallery, Wellcome Collection, Flowers East, A-side B-side Gallery, 17 Gallery and many more. Be prepared to talk about the shows you have seen and the work which interests you.

Task 2: Record a journey or a number of journeys in a range of mediums. For example you could document a journey through sound, through sketches and sustained drawings, photographs or through notes, or any other experimental media which you would like to use.

Summer holiday task: Complete one of the following:

Visit a large gallery with a general permanent collection such as the National Gallery in London. Find an artwork that links to the theme of ‘Journeys’. Note the details of the artwork and make a high quality copy of either the whole, or a relevant cropped section. Explain in detail why you chose the piece.

Research the artist Ed Ruscha and look at his 1966 photographic work titled ’Every Building on the Sunset Strip’. Make detailed notes about how his work links to our first theme of ‘Journeys’. Take a walk around your neighbourhood. Make a line drawing of a row of houses or shops that you pass regularly. You can stick pieces of paper together to make a long drawing. Add as much detail as you can.