Year 12 Graphics students were tasked with a brief from the English department to re-design covers of some well-known books. Take a look at their final outcomes below.
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Year 12 Graphics: Book Cover Designs
Category: Art and Design
The Big Draw Festival 2020! A Climate for Change
This month, St Laurence School has taken part in the Big Draw Festival 2020 – a worldwide celebration of drawing. This year’s theme is ‘A Climate of Change’, with a focus on endangered animals. Students were invited to draw their favourite endangered animal in any material of their choice to be included in our online gallery. We have been blown away by their fantastic artwork and their passion for the environment!
#ClimateofChange
Lockdown Photography Competition
During lockdown, we challenged students and staff to a photography competition. The brief was to document the experience of a week in lockdown – from rainbows in windows and star-jumps on balconies, to explorations of your local area.
We had some amazing entries, but the winner was Christopher Wardell, Year 10, with his beautifully creative photographs of nature.
You can see all the photos below; click on the images to view at a larger size.
Year 12 summer work
Over the summer term, our students who were moving on to A level Fine Art this September were asked to produce a series of work based on the theme of Still Life and objects founds around their home. Here is some of the fantastic artwork that they produced, using whatever materials they had to hand.
Summer Show
Due to Covid-19. our GCSE and A Level Art, Graphics and Photography students have not had the chance to exhibit their work at school in our annual Summer Show. We invited these students to submit their work via email so we could celebrate it on our blog. Here are the submissions below; well done to all that sent work in!
GCSE Graphic Design
GCSE Art and Design
GCSE Graphic Design
GCSE Art and Design
GCSE Art and Design
A Level Graphic Design
GCSE Graphic Design
A Level Graphic Design
A Level Graphic Design
GCSE Art and Design
GCSE Art and Design
GCSE Art and Design
GCSE Art and Design
A Level Photography
A Level Graphic Design
A Level Graphic Design
GCSE Art and Design
A Level Art and Design
A Level Graphic Design
GCSE Graphic Design
A Level Art and Design
GCSE Art and Design
A Level Graphic Design
GCSE Art and Design
A Level Graphic Design
GCSE Graphic Design
GCSE Art and Design
GCSE Art and Design
A Level Art and Design
A Level Graphic Design
A Level Graphic Design
GCSE Art and Design
A Level Graphic Design
A Level Art and Design
GCSE Art and Design
A Level Art and Design
A Level Art and Design
GCSE Art and Design
GCSE Art and Design
GCSE Art and Design
GCSE Art and Design
GCSE Art and Design
A Level Graphic Design
A Level Art and Design
GCSE Art and Design
GCSE Art and Design
GCSE Art and Design
GCSE Art and Design
A Level Graphic Design
Year 12 lockdown showcase!
Here is a great selection of some of the work our Year 12 Art, Graphics, and Photography students have produced during lockdown. Well done all!
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KS3 artwork during lockdown
We (the Art faculty) thought it would be a good idea to share some of the amazing work our KS3 students have been sending in from home during this lockdown period.
Being creative can be a wonderful way to relax and help our wellbeing during this uncertain time; take some inspiration from the work below.
Click on the images for a closer look. Well done everyone!
Year 12 Art: Glass making workshop
Last term, Year 12 art students went to Court Street Gallery in Trowbridge to attend a workshop led by Alex Compton, a local ‘Glass Artist’.
The students brought their sketchbooks along as a source of inspiration as they had previously been set a personal theme for their coursework which could influence their outcomes in the workshop. They used some of the studies in their books as a form of inspiration and were then shown different ways they could work with and manipulate glass in order to create two free standing pieces of glass art.
Everyone enjoyed the workshop and learnt some new, exciting and rewarding techniques.
Take a look at their outcomes below…
Year 7 ceramic ‘Netsuke’ bugs
Year 7 looked at insects for their first project in Art this year. The final part of the project tasked students to create a mini clay bug inspired by Japanese Netsuke sculptures. Students were taught how to design these using charcoal and then shown mark making into clay in order to produce these wonderful outcomes below.
All photography by Francesca Bunten, Art Technician.
Year 10 ceramic workshops with artist, Rachelle Corker
Year 10 art students had some exciting lessons this term, when a local ceramic artist, Rachelle Corker, visited the school to hold a series of workshops with them. It was a great opportunity for the students to experiment with clay and glazes, as well as to create some 3D work for their portfolios.
Students created their own ceramic tiles in response to Rachelle’s work – pinching, tearing, and modelling abstract shapes and forms directly onto the tile to mimic the natural shapes/textures found in plants, sea creatures, corals and geological formations. Once fired, the tiles were decorated using natural-looking glazes and oxides to bring the tiles to life.
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