Term 2 2014 Artist in Residence: Faces Places Inner Spaces
Faces Places and Inner Spaces
The Art of the Flag
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As a follow on from the flag project commissioned by the NGV last year, Helen Johnson agreed to come and work with us to further develop the idea of our school flag, aligned to the new PHPS strategic plan. This involved an examination of who we are as a school community and our exploration into faces, places and inner spaces was launched. The flag company, Evans and Evans kindly offered to print our final design.
Week 1: An examination of our faces
We built on our collage and drawing skills to recreate images of ourselves based on an imaginative representation of how we feel inside.
Thoughts from the artist:
Week 2: An examination of the faces of our friends
Helen demonstrated how we can use life drawing and colouring techniques to express ourselves at play. Some students offered to model and strike poses suggesting playground games while the class drew them. The poses lasted for a minute.
Week 3: An examination of places
This week we drew a map of our school. Our maps were inspired by artists maps of places. We decided that the maps we would create would represent also how we feel about our community and school. Every person’s map will look different because we all see our world differently. On our maps we can record many things. We can just record the places we love, the paths we take or the places we inhabit.
Thoughts from the artist
It has been really great to do a more extended project over this period of a couple of weeks, starting our maps with linework and then giving each student the opportunity to resolve their work by either continuing with line, or bringing colour into it using watercolour and/or gouache. This is an especially fun week for me because painting is my favourite thing to do! This morning I demonstrated some gouache and watercolour techniques with the older students, and really enjoyed seeing them take on these approaches and make them their own.
We then created a new kind of map about our school based on colour, line and pattern and painted an abstract work that drew on our understandings about colour and the emotions we attach to colour.
We then began to think about new ways of representing our values and community in our flag. We felt we would like to delve into the idea of the symbol. To train our eye and hand we began to think about line, pattern and shape in preparation for our work on symbols. We were inspired by the sketchbook pattern work of Italian Architect, Franco Purini.
As a follow on from the flag project commissioned by the NGV last year, Helen Johnson agreed to come and work with us to further develop the idea of our school flag, aligned to the new PHPS strategic plan. This involved an examination of who we are as a school community and our exploration into faces, places and inner spaces was launched. The flag company, Evans and Evans kindly offered to print our final design.
A flag will represent our school. It will show what we think and feel about our school. A flag identifies us, our values and pin points where we are.
We decided our flag should be colourful, detailed, meaningful, bright, show how we care and how we learn. It should represent the things our school values, it should show our families and our friends, our friendships and our team work.
It will be a symbol of our pride and joy.
Week 1: An examination of our faces
When we began to think of the idea of a flag we felt that the people that make up our community were the most important. We examined Helen’s work and the work of illustrators, Chiara Carrer and Sarah Fanelli for inspiration on how to find interesting ways of representing ourselves, our friends and our families.
We built on our collage and drawing skills to recreate images of ourselves based on an imaginative representation of how we feel inside.
Thoughts from the artist:
It’s so lovely to see how spontaneous and open the kids are, and what a positive approach they bring to their creative work. It is a very different approach for me to be helping out with so much creative output in such a short time! It’s very enjoyable, and I’m excited to see how things develop over the course of the term. In my own studio I like to work with representational elements, and I like to take an intuitive approach to this, so the responsiveness of the kids resonates with me.
Week 2: An examination of the faces of our friends
This week we examined how we and our friends use our playground and the games we play.
We drew ourselves at play using black pens and coloured pencils.
Helen demonstrated how we can use life drawing and colouring techniques to express ourselves at play. Some students offered to model and strike poses suggesting playground games while the class drew them. The poses lasted for a minute.
Week 3: An examination of places
Maps are for finding a place and things and for showing where places or things are. A map can tell you where you are and where you are going. A map can be of the world or a small space.
This week we drew a map of our school. Our maps were inspired by artists maps of places. We decided that the maps we would create would represent also how we feel about our community and school. Every person’s map will look different because we all see our world differently. On our maps we can record many things. We can just record the places we love, the paths we take or the places we inhabit.
Thoughts from the artist
Thoughts from the artist
It has been really great to do a more extended project over this period of a couple of weeks, starting our maps with linework and then giving each student the opportunity to resolve their work by either continuing with line, or bringing colour into it using watercolour and/or gouache. This is an especially fun week for me because painting is my favourite thing to do! This morning I demonstrated some gouache and watercolour techniques with the older students, and really enjoyed seeing them take on these approaches and make them their own.
We then created a new kind of map about our school based on colour, line and pattern and painted an abstract work that drew on our understandings about colour and the emotions we attach to colour.
We then began to think about new ways of representing our values and community in our flag. We felt we would like to delve into the idea of the symbol. To train our eye and hand we began to think about line, pattern and shape in preparation for our work on symbols. We were inspired by the sketchbook pattern work of Italian Architect, Franco Purini.
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