6th Form professional practice and project curators

A group of 6th form students were supported to develop and devise workshops for the Big Draw Drawing Festival on 18th October as part of their BTEC professional practice module.

We met weekly for 4 sessions to plan and implement their proposals. The group invited an guest artist in to work with on the day and curated all aspects of their own events.

Year 7 sketchbooks

As part of the introduct to specialist school every single year 7 student made a sketchbook during the first half term of this year!

‘It’s our world’ Animations

Year 9 students worked on a drawn animation for their Big Draw project this year. Over 3 sessions they came up with their theme and devised their storyboard and then worked with artist Charlotte Young to make their drawings come to life!

Their chosen themes were:
female identity in the media
pollution and the environment
BMXing

Drawing Games Book

Over 6 weeks year 8 students worked woith artists to explore what drawing is and might be. They experimented with techniques and devised thier own drawing games based on their experiences. The book was published by Public/Space and launched at the schools Big Draw event on 18th October.

Mono-printing drawing workshops

Towards the end of the academic year I worked on a 3 week mono printing and drawing project with year 9 students which had developed out of the 'project lab' sessions. They were interested in experimenting with drawing from looking at the city.

The sessions were designed as an introduction to the techniques - Drawing, Additive and Reductive

Project Lab #3

In session 3 we started putting our ideas into action! time to get on with some making and organising. This ranged from recording conversations about race onto tape, Suzanne lacy style to making a 'Feminist Filing Cabinet' to 3d Cardboard redesign of the city to devising and writing fantasy travel journals to making placards about community! (and loads of others!

However... in the excitment of the session I didn't manage to take any photos. Just completely forgot. I'm Sorry! it was a good one too. I will make up for it with EXTRA good photos next week which will involve presenting the projects in a pop-up temporary gallery space!

The People's Museum Session #2

We started collating the information we had been collecting and the ideas we were researching. We explored what was important and WHY.