Pop Portraits
Louise Pasquill was inspired by our previous project Fun with Photography and Dada collage puppets. We discussed “identity”. How we recognise positions in society? By uniform; such as the armed forces, public servants and heath care workers. We dreamt of ambitions for our future: nurses, policemen, soldiers, vets, rock stars, dancers, artists and art teachers. We […]
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- Jun, 01, 2018
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Lovely Lanterns
This half term Louise Pasquill worked on some beautiful tissue and paper straw lanterns with our youngest artists. We looked at the structure of a cube and used biodegradable materials like straws, tape and tissue. We folded the straws to build our cube frames, added decorated walls made from tissue and cut out windows. The […]
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- Jun, 01, 2018
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Maths through Art
The current climate for art education is often disheartening, with art departments under increasing pressure, teachers everywhere fighting for their subject to be valued and for people to understand the importance of art education in a fraught battle ground dominated by the STEM subjects (Science Technology Engineering and Maths). Those who advocate STEAM – add […]
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- May, 29, 2018
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Rebel Art School – Day 2
In the second day of our ‘Rebel Art School’ children worked with artist Kate Squires to make more sculptural works that extended their creative thinking. In DAY ONE (click the link for a reminder) children thought about how to break rules and began to un-learn some of their preconceived ideas about creating. Over the two days […]
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- Apr, 14, 2018
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Rebel Art School – Day 1
At the Rebel Art School this Easter we aimed to examine the nature of rules and how breaking them can help fuel creativity, and lead us to approach art making from fresh angles. Artist Kate Squires took us on a creative adventure into materials and processes inspiring us to make sculptures, performative work and […]
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- Apr, 11, 2018
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Mr and Mrs – emotion and self reflection
Our youngest artists at Pelham worked with Louise Pasquil and Lana Le in a playful exploration of emotion, expression, self reflection and understanding. They looked at the Mr and Mrs books and other children’s stories for ideas. Post it notes were used as part of a guessing game on emotions – posted on each other’s backs Balloons were […]
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- Mar, 02, 2018
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Shadow Stories
At our after school art club at Pelham school this term we have been exploring a wonderful cross curricular project inspired by the art of Tove Janson and her creations the Moomins Artist Veena Scialo visited the recent exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery and, as her own art often explores the links between art, stories […]
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- Mar, 02, 2018
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Collaborative Design and Build 2018 – day 2
On Day 2 of our architecturally inspired art course children got to work as structural engineers, to refine their structures, then morphed into interior decorators, furniture designers and town planners as the city developed and took on its own life. To catch up on DAY 1 click HERE We began the day straight away by […]
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- Feb, 14, 2018
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Collaborative Design and Build – day1
Architect and Designer James Sale Joined us from his practice Co-DB (Collaborative design and build) to lead our popular architecture inspired course. Describing themselves as a team of experienced designers, doers and makers they are well placed to help children tackle large scale building projects, encouraging them to solve problems and see opportunities wherever they […]
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- Feb, 12, 2018
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Snow Topped Gingerbread Houses
Key stage 1 After school Art Club have been working on a Christmas Gingerbread house. Printing backgrounds Folding shapes to make a house stand up Designing stained glass windows Peeping through the windows at Christmas Scenes Then topping off with a sprinkling of glittery snow There were some gorgeous little Christmassy decorative […]
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- Dec, 07, 2017
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