Frida

Frida has just arrived in the art room, so Diego has , at last, a real friend instead of the ceramic substitute.
Come and meet her.

Year 8 'Banksy' and co. project

Year 8 Self Portraits

The year 8 art blocks have been looking at the current resurgence of street art in Christchurch and in other cities. In particular they have studied work by the British Street Artist Banksy. Students used Banksy’s stencil process to produce a self portrait. The final drawing used the column and box structure of newspaper to provide the framework for their composition. This is a technique commonly used by NZ artist Tracey Tawhio. They also looked at Picasso who was one of the first artists to collage ‘found material’ such as newspaper in their work early in the 20th century. Much time was spent discussing how these artists challenge our perception of art and how it is valued.

  Charcoal, chalk and conté were used to create textures and to link 

elements in their   designs.

Beth Simpson

Charlotte Radley

Jarred Powell

Matt Jones

Mitchell Freeman

Tilly-Belle Robinson

Chalk like an Egyptian

Last week Iona joined the girls from Cashmere High School's Human Rights Society as they chalked a giant female head on the ground at the Re-start Mall, in Christchurch to draw attention to the plight of the women of Egypt and Amnesty International's campaign 

of support. 

For more information on this please go to this Amnesty International link

last term some of our year 8s also took up the challenge and a photo of one group will appear in Amnesty's 'Active' Magazine

These are Year 8 pupils from Lansdowne House , Heaton Normal Intermediate School, Christchurch, Visual Art Class. 

Whilst the current women of Egypt are feeling repressed we thought that we would honour one of Egypt's most powerful female leaders , the Pharaoh Hatshepsut.

Two and a half thousand years ago the most important person in Egypt was a woman.

We used an image of a statue in The Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York.

Pupils worked in Charcoal, white and red Chalk.