Laura Edgar

Laura Edgar is an artist based in Whitley Bay on the North East coastline working with textile and mixed media. She uses a mix of vintage, recycled fabrics, ephemera and haberdashery ; incorporating embroidery and painting techniques to create original art inspired by landscapes, seascapes and nature.

More of Laura's work can be found on her website http://www.lauraedgar.co.uk/page_1968252.html 

Y9 Alice Christmas Collage

Catch up any missing work and complete a tea party inspired collage using the images and my Alice in Wonderland pinterest page as inspiration.  https://www.pinterest.co.uk/tigersushi13

Y10 Christmas collage

Homework 2 Year 10 Art

Photography Competition - Deadline 30 November

Photography Competition  Theme - DREAMS & ASPIRATIONS 

https://www.jjmediafoundation.com/

"Eastside is delighted to be working in partnership with jj Foundation to deliver the UK Photography Awards For Young People 2017. Through connecting young people to world class opportunities, we at Eastside, are determined to support the dreams and aspirations of all young people and create opportunities for them to unlock their potential."- Matt Lane Chief Executive Officer / Artistic Director, Eastside Educational Trust

CATEGORIES

• PORTRAIT
• LANDSCAPE
• STREET PHOTOGRAPHY
• STILL LIFE/ART
• FASHION

Submit images below:
Maximum of 3 jpeg Images per Category
https://jjfoundation.wetransfer.com
Alternatively, you can email your images to foundation@jjmedia.com

1st Prize. 1 day professional studio hire in JJ Studios Plus DSLR Camera
2nd Prize. 1 week work experience at JJ Studios Plus DSLR Camera
3rd Prize. DSLR Camera

Y10 Pic Monkey Experiments & Homework

This video I have made shows you the different tools available on Pic Monkey.  You will be able to make several versions of the same picture very quickly.  Screen shot as you go so that you have a number images.  Make notes of the tools you are using to annotate your photos.

Y10 Catch up

If you haven't completed your homework from last half term - then now is the time to catch up!

1. A3 artists page on Len Tabner
2. A3 mood board about The Sea
3. A3 page about the Quay Arts Trip
4. Set of 20 photographs about The Sea
5. Challenge - create an artwork which is inspired by the Quay exhibition.

You might like to create a wordle for your mind map or mood board using wordle.net  (use safari)



Take a look at the word associations website - great place for your mind map and mood boards

Y9 Half term Homework

Use the artist research page and how to analyse sheet to help with your artist research pages.
Here are 9 artists who have re-imagined Alice. This set of artists

See the 15 artists who took part in the  “Curiouser and Curiouser”Exhibition

Artist Research Page help Sheets

Make sure that you have completed all the steps listed when creating your artist research page.

Y10 Half term Homework an Inspiration

   

 

             Left to right Noriko Kuresumi, Shayna Leib, Denise Romecki and Ben Young.

You are free to find your own artist if you prefer.  Your A3ish response can be in any material including textile, sculpture, print, paint, mixed media, collage or photographic.

You are also expected to complete all the work from this term including the  homework assignments.

Artist research page about Len Tabner, A3 mood board about the Sea, A3 page about the exhibition 'I must down to the Sea' and a set of 20 photos of the sea.

Challenge was to create a piece of artwork that was inspired by the exhibition.

How to Analyse...

1. Basic Information

The name of the artist

What country are they from?  (This is important as it puts the work into context)

The name and date of the series that you are interested in.

The name and date of any images you choose from the series to analyse.

Research and explain what the artist’s intentions are.  What concept, message or meaning did the artist want to communicate or explore?

2. Visual Qualities

What do you like about the image?

What is the image of?

What is the main focus?

Can you write about any formal elements?  Line, Colour, Shape, Form, Texture, Pattern, Tone…

How has the artist achieved the meaning/concept or message?

What composition style have they used?  Leading lines, golden section, the rule of thirds…

How have they used the lighting in the image?

If they have used people s can you read any body language or facial expression?

3. Camera Settings (Photography)

What shutter speed do you think they have use?

What ISO do you think they have used?

Discuss the aperture settings used? 

Shallow/long depth of field

Where have they focused?

4. Relate to your own work
This is VERY important so do not leave it out! By answering these questions you will be explaining to the examiner just how you intend to use this investigation work to inspire your own work.

How will you be influenced by this artist?

What techniques, concepts or visual effects are you most inspired by?

How will you take this influence and use it in your work?
 

Y9 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland - in under an hour

Y10 Len Tabner Seascapes Homework

Len Tabner was born in South Bank on the River Tees near Middlesbrough. His father had been a merchant seaman and Tabner remains fascinated by the grim grandeur of the industrial northeast. He lives a few hundred yards from the highest cliffs in England, at 650 feet above the sea, and near the potash mine in Boulby—the deepest mine in Europe.

It is a landscape of extremes and frequently of violent weather, but Tabner is not an artist to stay huddled indoors in his studio. He is to be found on the beach with his easel weighted down against the wind or, like Turner, on board ship in the middle of a gale. His is an elemental art, visionary in its scope. Due to these conditions, his paintings are produced with a sense of great urgency, with a rich variety of materials combining and competing on the surface of the paper. It is a question of evocation rather than description, although the paintings are definitely rooted in specific locales.

Despite working from the Falkland Islands to Japan, Tabner demonstrates that we can understand the whole by knowing one small spot extremely well. His home territory has been transformed in his lifetime - enabling him to chart the death of mines and shipyards and record the birth and heyday of North Sea power.      

Tabner tries to capture the feeling, the essence, the experience of the landscape

Giacometti at the Tate Modern

Giacometti is on show until September 10th at the Tate Modern for any of you able to go to London over the holiday.  Take a look at this link of Eight things to Know about Alberto Giacometti

Art Exam

For the art exam you should take a series of photographs these can be inspired by the artists that you are studying, pay careful attention to the background and how you light the still life. You should also complete at least one artist study with a response which can be A5 in size.

Young Designers Award

The brief for this year's award was to design an innovative new way of transporting people from the top of Shanklin cliff to the beach as an alternative to the lift. Our students came up with some very imaginative ideas and made it very tricky for the judges.. This is the third successful year that The Island Free School has entered the Young Designer Award which was organised by the IOW branch of RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects).

Students from all across the island took part in the competition.

Congratulations to all the students who took part and well done to our Year 9 GCSE Art and Design students - Taylor M who came first and Harrison  B who came third this year. The students picked up their certificates and medals during the award ceremony held at the Royal Yacht Squadron in Cowes.

Taylor beside her winning entry in the 13-18 age gronp

Cliff Trio by Taylor M

The six Island Free School Winners.

Age 11-12 Years

1st Place - Ellie R - The Triple Towers
3rd Place - Fauve H P - The Lounge-A-Rounger
Commendation - Gracie B - Love Coffee
Commendation - Katie M S - Shanklin Butterfly Lift

Age 13-18 Years

1st Place - Taylor M - Cliff Trio
3rd Place - Harrison B - Shanklin Typhoon

STYLE OF WIGHT PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION - COAST

STYLE OF WIGHT PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION - COAST

Be creative take inspiration from and interpret the theme

WINNERS PRIZE:

• If you win, your photography will be featured in the pages of the Island’s most successful lifestyle magazine (Style of Wight).
• Have your work displayed at the Quay Arts Centre.
• A voucher for £100 to spend at the Island Photographic Centre.
• And you will be a part of our annual exhibition.

HOW TO ENTER:

To enter send your images by email to office@styleofwight.co.uk Please title the email clearly with the competition name (COAST), and include your full name, address and contact telephone number. For each bi-monthly competition you can enter up to three images, these must be supplied as print quality, high resolution files.

 (DEADLINE FRIDAY 23RD OF JUNE  PLEASE)

Tree Project Work and Homework

Competition Deadline 19th May 2017

 

Recreation Photos

Well done to all those who took photos, special thanks to mums, dads, brothers and sisters who  dressed up were painted and then photographed! Great work

Small Faces - Portrait Exhibition

Would you like your work to be in an exhibition?

Collect a piece of A6 cartridge paper from Ms Travers and create a portrait using any material.  The Deadline has been extended.Hand it in to Ms T by Friday 17th February and I will send it off to the Solent Showcase Gallery.