Visual Art

Visual Art and Artist Residency

March 24, 2021 by specialistteam

The last few weeks have seen the Visual Art studio transformed into a wonderful printmaking studio. Every student has used their own block and design to create a wonderful hand block printed piece of fabric. Students have worked through the process and have gained an understanding of how fabrics are designed and printed. This marks …

March 9, 2021 by specialistteam

Making the block or stamp and printing our fabric… Students were asked to close their eyes and drop into the feeling body, carefully drawing an object from nature. From there, students refined their design using fine liner and watercolour pencils. Carefully adding detail, they experimented with the positioning of their object to help visualise their …

Visual Art

February 24, 2021 by specialistteam

Term 1 weeks 3 and 4 Re- configuring and re-shaping our sense of togetherness through the medium of textiles This week we have spent time further developing our ideas and understanding of textiles, stitched lines and how images can be transferred from one medium to another. Collaging further using the papers we created for the …

Term 1: The Fabric of Life…

February 10, 2021 by specialistteam

Re- configuring and re-shaping our sense of togetherness through the medium of textiles The story as it unfolds… Last term we examined our relationship to the land, our ‘oneness’ we felt with nature as a response to the Kent Morris, Never Alone installation. We created a large scale collaged mural with artist in residence, Sarah …