Managing art group work can be a challenge and seem like more trouble than it’s worth. How can you assess a single student when it’s group work? What are you assessing them on? What do you do if someone is not contributing? Despite these worries, I am in favour of group art projects. Of course, […]
I have been lucky enough to be sent a copy of the photography book ‘Open Aperture. The Evolution of Photography in an Abstract World’ by its author Paul Matte. I’m really pleased that it has been brought to my attention as the more I’ve looked at it, the more I’ve realised that it is pure […]
What is Cyanotype? Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. The basic premise involves coating a surface with a 1:1 solution of Potassium Ferricyanide and Ammonium Ferric (III) Citrate. This surface must dry in a dark place. Prints can be made using negatives or placing everyday objects on the surface to […]
Are you being asked to design a recovery curriculum for your art and design department? A recovery curriculum is a curriculum, as suggested by Barry Carpenter, CBE, Professor of Mental Health in Education, Oxford Brookes University, UK and Matthew Carpenter, Principal, Baxter College, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, UK, that uses the five levers ‘Relationships’, ‘Community’, ‘Transparent Curriculum’, […]
Artist Klari Reis creates art in Petri dishes. Like the cultures you would expect to find there, the daubs of colour bloom, bleeding paint seems frozen in time, whisps and tendrils reach across the glossy surfaces reminding us of past science lessons and images from under the microscope. The desire to peer closer is inevitable. […]
This blog post details 5 ways to extend student work after lockdown. I’ve seen a lot of art teachers on social media worrying about the quantity of work their students have created in lockdown. First things first, don’t worry you are not alone. You are not the only one who is worrying like crazy that […]
