Year 13 visit 'The Turner Prize' and Tate Britain

Just before the October break the Year 13 Visual Arts and Design Strand students took a trip up to Tate Britain to visit the Turner Prize. Although this years nominees have been seen by many as not as controversial as in previous years, the work still prompted a huge response from the students including the inevitable 'What is Art?' debate. Students have used this important and thought provoking exhibition to inspire further development in both their current projects based in painting and photography. The contemporary and thematic content of the work served drive our students into questioning in moredepth the reasons behind why they are creating art and also served to help push the boundaries on how this work can be presented in a non-traditional and conceptual fashion.
Students also seemed to be completely divided on which artists work they preffered and although Lucy Skaer seemed to be quite popular, all four nominees recieved support by different students. You can make your own decisions by visiting the website here or by making the trip up to Tate Britain yourself.

Marketing Markets: YR10 Strand present work at assesmbly

YR10 Strand Visual Arts & Design presented their project "Marketing Markets" at the Language Assembly in term one. For this project students went on a trip to East London and selected a market stall each from Whitechapel market. They have spend the folowing weeks designing a brand and logo and a series of paper bag designs for their market stalls. Above students hand out paper bags at assembly.

Year 10 trip to East London

The Year 10 Visual Arts and Design students recently visited East London to gather visual research for two projects they were beginning. The first project is a painting project exploring artists like Jock McFayden, investigating composition and mixed media to produce individual outcomes. The second is a bag design projects where students have looked at processes such as print and embroidery to produce bags for fictional market stall based on the ones they saw on the trip. The students had a great time and got to see a diverse, creative and multicultural part of the city.