Our new Year 10 Art class are starting a project based on the ground beneath our feet (we will zoom out later) . It's great to be back after a summer of storms !
From here they looked at maps and charts and cool things like that and recreated them using a range of expressive mark making . Firstly using pastels and then paint . Then they made a Press Print using found objects from the Natural World. The end goal will be to make a piece of art work that incorporates all these elements together . But they're still working on that !
Mr Paymani's Year 9 roopu class have been looking at tapa cloth designs and the work of artist John Pule to create pieces of work based on their past, present and future . . .
We are fast approaching Matariki . The Year 10 Art class have been making posters to celebrate the fact . If you come into the kura (school) on the last day of term , you will get to see them in the first person . If you can't make it , enjoy these pictures instead ! Each images is meant to symbolically represent one of the stars of the Matariki cluster . . .
The Thames Arts Society student exhibition is now on and runs until the end of August . Well done to all our students ( you now have a years free membership to the Society so get your work down there and get selling ! ) and our 3 prize winners, Lauren , Baromey and Ruby . It is a wonderful thing that the Arts Society promotes the art of young people in the community and we are very grateful for the opportunity to get our work out there and displayed in such a professional setting .
The Year 8 Induction Day has been very busy . In the short 'Art Experience' lesson the students had a go at observational portrait drawing with their wrong hand and converting it into a print . Is there anybody here you recognise ?
After the Vibe area in town closed down , we were offered some of the concrete planters . Well , we couldn't say 'No' to that so we took three and decided to turn them into a little end of year project . Thank you to Zara, Karamea, Anna, Arleea and Ngila for putting in the mahi when you could have been splashing around in the pool or running round the gym !