Celia helps Yr 7s
Professional wire artist Celia Smith (who recently exhibited her Drawing with Wire exhibition in the Curve Gallery) worked with Churchdown School students from Year 7 and Year 10 on Monday 18 July.
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Yr 7s Working in Gallery
2011
05.16
05.16
Two groups of Miss Hornby’s Year 7 students worked in the Curve Gallery this week, using Celia Smith’s sculptures as inspiration for their drawings.
Some of the students’ work will be on display alongside Celia’s in the Gallery and will be available to view at the Private View of the exhibition to be held on Thursday 26th May from 4.00-5.30pm. Celia Smith will also be in attendance at the show.
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Artist in Residence: Laura Taylor 2011.03.04
2011
03.04
03.04
Year 8s enjoy working with Laura in the Curve
Spinning Around
Lots of hard work
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Artist in Residence: Laura Taylor 2011.02.14
2011
02.14
02.14
Laura with y7
Courtney and Jack spinning around
Our current artist-in-residence, Laura Taylor, whose exhibition is currently on display in the Curve Gallery, worked on Monday 14th February with various Year 7 classes and a small group of Year 11s.
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Staff can learn new tricks!
2010
12.03
12.03
Learning to get covered in ink!
Some members of staff at Churchdown School have been readdressing their work-life balance by coming to art club. Last night, Mrs Toft and Mrs Donnelly learnt about printmaking with artist, Simon Packard.
Mr Pinco concentrates on improving his drawing skills
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The Chosen Ones workshops
2010
11.23
11.23
Last week, the artists came into to school to work with the boys. They each worked with a group of 8 boys for 10 lessons. The boys involved are: Kefren Brennan, Matt Christmas, Charlie Cresswell, Liam Davies, Kyle Dokic, Callio Hiam, Tony Jones, Charlie Light, Joshua Moss, Matthew Say, Adam Shotbolt, Martel Sutherland, Ben Tarrant, Michael Thompson, Matt Virgoe and Jake White.
- Group 1 with Ulf Pedersen
Using small LED lights, they worked in the dark to create drawings with light.
Ulf demonstrates the LED finger torches
Two boys strike poses and two more draw round them with light
They then worked in smaller groups to create stop-motion animations.
- Group 2 worked with Davy McGuire
Creating stop-motion animation
Kefren directs Churchdown's latest boy band
They also created some stop-motion animations and they filmed themselves against the green screen so they could appear in their animations.
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The Chosen Ones
2010
11.23
11.23
The Chosen Ones is a project especially for KS3 boys to engage them in school through art. Outside funding allowed the school to bring in two artists to work with the boys in some workshops which will result in an exhibition in the Curve Gallery. The boys were central to the selection of the artists. They helped write the advert and then interviewed the artists. The chosen artists were Ulf Pedersen and Davy McGuire.
Creativity Day 28 May 2010
2010
06.09
06.09
James and Ashley made the Leaning Tower of Insects
So pleased with his work he has to hide behind it!
While many of our students went on a trip to Drayton Manor theme park, those that stayed in school had an extraordinary day. Everybody was involved with three sessions: Eco-School- a challenge to design the school the way you want it; Eco-Shelter- making a shelter for a creature of your choice out of recycled materials; and Eco-phone.
Some students were taken out of their normal groups to either work with an artist in the Curve or with a Samba drummer in the drama studio.
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Simon Packard Artist Workshops 27 May
2010
05.27
05.27
Working in the Curve
Working with year 10s
Simon Packard came in to work with three groups of students. First he worked with Miss Bunting and some Yr 12 to produce relief prints from plants. He then worked with Miss Rickard and a Yr 10 GCSE class on producing mixed media prints for their masks project. After break he worked with Miss Dryland’s Yr 10 GCSE creating print collages for their Cities coursework.