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