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Sketch For Survival

Over the course of the summer term, Art Club have been working on individual pieces of artwork to enter into the Sketch For Survival art competition.  This competition asks for entrants to base their work on species listed as threatened on the IUCN Red List, so we spent some time researching the Red List and selecting species to look at.  Once the group had chosen their threatened species, they worked on putting together a background in which to place their creature or plant using the work of American artist Alma Thomas for inspiration. Finally, their featured species was drawn in black and white to highlight its stark plight against such a colourful backdrop.  Our first finished entry comes from "Tracey Youthful Seurat" ;-) and depicts a pineapple sea cucumber...

 

Erwin Wurm

 

We’ve had a lot of fun in Art Club this week looking at the work of sculptor Erwin Wurm, in particular his “One Minute Sculptures”.  As exhibited in galleries across the world, this particular collection encourages the viewer to interact with everyday objects in unusual ways according to Wurm’s hand drawn instructions.  The resulting sculpture is therefore in existence, physically, for a brief time only - perhaps just one minute.

 We had such a good time experimenting with this idea in Art Club, our sculptures didn’t hang around for much longer than about 30 seconds before we were on to the next!  Take a look…

And now for the instructions…

 

Perhaps you could try matching up the instructions with the sculptures - or even following the instructions at home to make a whole new sculpture!

 

 

 

Alberto Giacometti

 

This week in Art Club we learned a little bit about Alberto Giacometti and some of his sculptures.  Lots of them are tall, thin figures which are made from metal.  Rather than roll out the blow torches and soldering irons, we decided to use tin foil to make sculptures similar to Giacometti’s - here are some of our results…

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