Art Galleries 2024-2025
Term 6 2024-2025
Winners Announced – Royal Academy of Art: Artists’ Summer Show
SLT have now judged the winners of the Royal Academy of Art Summer Show entries. The level of talent is incredible and the decisions were very difficult.
Year 7: Pastel Fish Inspired by Vincent Scarpiece
Mrs Tin’s & Mrs Coupland’s Year 7s have been creating large oil pastel fish, inspired by artist Vincent Scarpiece. They blended the colours carefully and paid close attention to colour combinations.
Year 8: Asofo Flags and Aboriginal Art
Mrs Coupland’s Year 8 class have been designing and creating Asafo flags, using watercolour, collage and stitching. Students really considered the symbolism behind their flags with some exciting and original work. Whilst Mrs Tin’s Year 8’s have been studying a number of different cultures around the world to inspire their pieces this term. The students used watercolour, pen, pencil and acrylic paint to create these Australian Aboriginal designs and were encouraged to think about the symbolic patterns and marks in their pieces.
Year 9: Words Project
Year 9’s project is ‘Words’ and Mrs Tin’s class had a sub-theme of music and lyrics. Her group created these lovely observational drawings of some of their favourite musicians and then many have begun to add lyrics to them in the background. How many musicians can you spot?
Art Gallery Term 5 2024-2025
Year 7 Flying Hats
Year 7 made hats that would make the wearer fly! This was linked to their project flight where they had been studying Leonardo Da Vinci’s flying machines.
Year 8 Guernica: Pablo Picasso
Year 8 have been studying the painting Guernica by Pablo Picasso for their Viewpoints project. They learnt about the symbols in the piece (made in response to the bombing of the town of Guernica in northern Spain) and then made pieces with chalk, charcoal and newspaper collage in response.
Year 8 Arts Award
The Year 8 St Johns Arts Award Club have been working hard over the last few months on completing their bronze award and have created a range of beautiful work. Students have studied artists, taken inspiration from exhibitions and visited museums. Well done for all of your hard work everyone!
Year 9 Scale Food
Year 9 have been playing with Scale and exploring food as a theme. We made cakes out of clay and will hopefully add backgrounds and figures to them to make them appear incorrect in terms of scale.
Art Gallery Term 4 2024-2025
Year 7 Leonardo Da Vinci
Year 7 have been researching Leonardo Da Vinci and his flying machines. They have been creating some hat designs to make Mona Lisa fly!
Year 8 Arts Award
Mrs Coupland has presented these amazing pieces from our Year 8 Arts Award Students. I think you’ll agree, they are amazing!
Year 8 Cubism
Year 8 have been creating cubist sculptures inspired by Pablo Picasso, where portraits were seen from different angles and viewpoints.
Year 9 Crisp Packets
Year 9 have been creating mixed media pieces of packaging that are large scale, studying Pop Artists, Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol as references.
Year 9 Scale Food
Mr Joyce’s class have bene working in groups to create these HUGE scale models of favourite foods. They’ve used cardboard, paper mache and paint and they look awesome!
Year 11 Art Exam Snips
Some little glimpses into some of the work that year 11 have produced in their exam projects so far. They will be taking their exam towards the end of April and will be making big final pieces during the 10 hours.
Year 12 Personal Project
Here is some of the recent work made by the Year 12 Art students. They are working on early ideas in their own Personal Investigation and are studying wide range of topics!
Art Gallery Term 2 2024-2025
Year 7 this term have been working on completing tonal self-portraits. They have also been exploring the work of Frida Kahlo who is helping them to develop their self-portraits later this term.
Year 8 Arts Award
The year 8 Arts Award students have been working on Part A of their award this term. This is where they choose to develop and refine a skill of their own choosing. Some have chosen themes such as animals, architecture and details in portraits.
Year 8 Coats of Arms Designs
Year 8 this term have been designing their own symbolic Coat of Arms. They have drawn things that relate to their interests and values and then have created relief sculptures using cardboard to turn them into shields.
Year 9 Masks
Year 9 completed their mask drawings by adding patterns that we linked to the non-western culture they were exploring. In term 2 we are focusing on the Day of the Dead festival and making responses to that.
Year 10 Circus Art
Year 10 are in full swing with their Circus Project. They have had fun drawing with oil pastels, mono printing and lino printing and then creating work with text involved.
Year 12 Drawing to Music
Year 12 have been drawing to music – exploring new ideas for generating visual artwork. We listened to a eclectic mix of different music and created abstract responses. They have then developed their sketches into larger scale pieces and have really enjoyed the process.
Year 13 Personal Art Project
Year 13 are starting to create their large final pieces for their Personal investigation. They are using a variety of materials including painting, drawing, printing, textiles and sculpture.
Art Gallery Term 1 2024-2025
Year 7 Art
Year 7 have been studying the formal elements in art and especially in portraits and having a go at a first self-portrait.
Year 8 Art
Year 8 are studying Symbolism and Vanitas and focusing on how a painting can tell us stories. They created a crazy symbolic hat for Henry 8th and have done a lovely homework where they had to research in more depth about Vanitas and symbolism in still life artworks.
Year 9 Art
Year 9 students are studying masks and creating ambitious A2 sized drawings of masks from around the world that are found in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford.
Year 12 Art
Year 12 students have worked on collages, and subsequently created large scale monoprints in response to the collages.
The aim is to expose students to as many different ways of generating ideas for their own work as possible and to give them opportunity to further build their skills.