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An invitation to bring about change

In the past trainees have audited the Art and Design curriculum in their placement schools for evidence of diversity in terms of race, gender and disability. Whilst there has been some diversifying of the curriculum in KS4 and KS5, the majority of artists studied in the curriculum have been white, male, European and dead. To bring about change, we need access to resources - high quality artists and designers who represent the fully diverse society in which we live in the UK. So, please create here posts to fine artists, designers of all kinds, photographers and sculptors who can enrich the curriculum and be role models for pupils, particularly young people of colour, those living with disabilities and everyone exploring gender and identity.

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Athi-Patra Ruga - South African artist (Yr 9)

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Athi-Patra Ruga - South African artist (Yr 9)

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Athi-Patra Ruga (1984 - Present) is a South African artist who uses performance, photography, video, textiles, and printmaking to explore notions of utopia and dystopia, material and memory. His work explores the body in relation to sensuality, culture, and ideology, often creating cultural hybrids.

insta - https://www.instagram.com/athipatra/?hl=en-gb

BBC interview - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cswp6k

Pupils in a classroom:

how can you represent/express your feelings into - a colour, animal, or person with just clothes (like the one on the side - shadow of his outself)

look into texture - textiles - sculpture

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October Gallery London

https://octobergallery.co.uk/

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Yayoi is a 95yo female Japanese artist whose work explores her own unique style in fashion, paintings, installations and photography but also explores anti-war activism in Vietnam.

Throughout her life, Yayoi showed symptoms consistent with psychosis and other mental health states. Yayoi would be possibly relatable for international students who use art and the creation/process of to help their metal health and for those who use art as an escape and method to understand their mental health.

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Find out more about Yayoi Kusama’s art, childhood, activism and unique fashion sense

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Edition of 2, Mixed media on canvas, 100 x 110 cm. (LS101)

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Wangechi Mutu, born 1972 is a Kenyan American Visual artist, known for her sculptures, paintings and performance arts. Her work explores the female body, questioning self-image, gender constructs, cultural trauma and environmental destruction within beauty and power.

Wangechi Mutu could be good for female students to relate their cultural heritage to their self-image and the beauty and power of this

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Artist page for Wangechi Mutu (born 1972)

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Nilupa is an artist, educator and lecturer in photography at Coventry University and University of Westminster. Working with a primarily lens-based practice. She explores the principles of art and craft, the expanded materiality within photography, and is interested in the notion of culture, self-identity, and anthropology in her work.

An element of her practice focuses on socially engaged photography, which she then develops into weaving of those images.

Links into learning of weaving and looms. Introduces photography GCSE and a technique commonly used in my school of weaving two images together - usually of landscapes but would be nice to introduce the idea of culture and self expression. Students could collect images from their own life experiences and identity to complete this project.

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© 2023 by Nilupa Yasmin
All Rights Reserved.

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Laila Shawa, Target (detail), 2008.
Digital print on canvas, 100 x 160 cm. Edition of 1.
(From The Walls of Gaza series, 1994.)

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Shawa’s concern is to reflect the political realities of her country, becoming, in the process, a chronicler of events. Her work is based on a heightened sense of realism and targets injustice and persecution wherever their roots may be. Useful to look at for print, war themed, and sculpture

https://octobergallery.co.uk/artists/shawa

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Year 8 William Morris Alternatives (Kehinde Wiley)

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Year 8 William Morris Alternatives (Kehinde Wiley)

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Contexts

In Year 8, we explore the quality of line and prints. The project ends with looking at William Morris' work and creating an artwork inspired by his style. However, here is a list of alternative artists that you could suggest to the students for inspiration. These artists maintain a similar art style but address modern-day issues and contexts.

Kehinde Wiley Profile

American artist known for his vibrant, large-scale portraits of Black individuals posed like figures from classical European paintings. His style features highly detailed, ornate backgrounds inspired by diverse cultural patterns. Wiley's work explores themes of race, identity, and power, challenging the absence of Black figures in traditional Western art and placing them in positions of authority and dignity.

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Kehinde Wiley's vibrant and highly naturalistic paintings of contemporary African-American and African-Diasporic men and women subvert the hierarchies and conventions of classical portraiture. Wiley engages the visual rhetoric of the powerful, majestic and sublime in his representation of contemporary African-American and African-Diasporic men and women who adopt heroic poses directly...

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Golnaz Fathi, Untitled (42) (triptych), 2017.
Acrylic on canvas, 150 x 330 cm (150 x 110 cm each). (GF042)

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Golnaz Fathi’s work explores the potential for overlap and exchange between the quite separate domains of modernist abstraction and classical Persian calligraphy. She is remarkable for being one of only a handful of women trained to the highest levels of traditional Persian calligraphy.

Useful to look at mark making and calligraphy maybe?

https://octobergallery.co.uk/artists/fathi

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1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement.

Artworks of:

Warrior - autobiography image of him and the challenge he faces through life

Hollywood Africans - feature images and texts relating to stereotypes of African Americans in the entertainment industry

Important to show yr 9s:

exploring Basquiat's work, students can gain insights into diversity, creativity, and the importance of representation in the arts.

Basquiat emerged from street art and graffiti, challenging traditional notions of what constitutes fine art. This encourages students to think critically about artistic definitions and the value of different mediums. Breaking away from traditional styles learned in earlier years.

https://www.artnews.com/feature/who-was-jean-michel-basquiat-why-was-he-important-1234579679/

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OCTOBER GALLERY | Rafael Trelles | ART | BIOGRAPHY | ART FOR SALE

Rafael Trelles combines naturalistic drawings of flora and fauna in which suggests overtones of ethereal significance. His paintings are suffused with hints of hidden insight and awareness.

I thought this would be a good artist who depicts portraiture

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A Coventry/Warwickshire artist who works between painting, poetry and textiles.

Gyetvai's work captures "an emotive and evocative interpretation of nature which is constantly refined throughout the process of making."

Her work shows examples of the ways painting and drawing can be combined with textiles and mixed media work

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Michala is an MA Fine Art Painting graduate with distinction from Coventry University. She is an award winning, widely exhibited artist who works between painting, poetry and textiles. She states:…

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Christine Wertheim and Margaret Wertheim (Yr 8)

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Christine Wertheim and Margaret Wertheim (Yr 8)

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A project by Christine Wertheim & Margaret Wertheim of the Institute For Figuring. The Crochet Coral Reef is an artwork responding to climate change and also a global community-based exercise in applied mathematics and evolutionary theory.

Website - https://www.margaretwertheim.com/crochet-coral-reef

TED Talk - https://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_wertheim_the_beautiful_math_of_coral?subtitle=en

How can this help pupils? - lessons?

Understanding the responses to climate change helps us comprehend how climate change has impacted our everyday surroundings. Encourage pupils to predict what they think will happen in the future. This activity promotes critical thinking and encourages them to think outside the box. Additionally, it incorporates elements of science (through prediction) as well as design and art into their work.

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Gilliam was recognised as the foremost contemporary African-American colour field painter. Colour field painting, is a form of abstracted painting, taking colour outside of the canvass and being suggestive of the composition rather than being representational.

In the 1970's Gilliam, identified that cutting and rearranging geometric shapes from thick canvass opened his mind to new ideas. He became aware of the expansion of colour and experiments that his practice was now open to and found that his new way of working resembled the patterns identified on African-American quilts.

Gilliam, not only worked on canvass of paper and canvass itself, he also removed his work off of the canvas and created large installations.

IDEAS SURROUNDING STUDENTS:

By exploring Gilliam's work, students could potentially become less 'precious' in the way that they are working. This could be through the idea of cutting up their work to then create additional outcomes.

This may also move students away from the idea of making everything hyper-realistic, which then in turn makes them become more comfortable in their own unique practice resulting in more work being produced through experiment.

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“I am a better artist today in that I am obviously a better teacher. Whether I am teaching or making art, the process is fundamentally the same: I am creating.” — Sam Gilliam quoted in Curtia James, “Working With His Seven League Boots On,” American Visions 4:1 (Feb.

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1982 Limpopo-Johannesburg based.

“Art does not know colour”

Nelson Makamo’s artwork speaks to changing the global mindset of what it means to be an African child. His portraits have strong emotions that every young African possess, from conviction to prowess and determination, you cannot help but resonate with every piece. His mixed media style and a unique mark-making technique that breaks the scholarly rules is a very distinct signature.

Allows students to identify with diverse communities and global artists. Experiment with other mediums - marking making, acrylic paint. Introducing colour - personality, background, nationality? Current curriculum looks at works by Mark Powell and Enam Bosokah (Biro portraits). Interesting to blend artist ideas together?

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Saba Barnard a US-Pakistani artist likes to paint Muslim women. She created a painted series called ‘Technicolor Muslimah’ of fun portraits to question and lesson the perception of Muslim women as one dimensional, “other” and exotic, but to express their joy, kindness and humor. For students of cultual heritage that want to capture their perception of their heritage and work with photography/painting.

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Surrounded by her three children, a mother self-confidently regards the viewer. All four of them have halos. The blue sky and golden stars in the background recall not only ceiling frescos in Catholic churches - in conjunction with the red and white stripes, the reference to the American flag is unmistakable.

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https://www.annaparkart.com/2020

issues and blurred lines around issues in present day society making her work relatable and accessible to students

delves into themes of identity, culture, and personal narrative. This can encourage students to reflect on their own identities and express themselves through their art.

Park’s background and experiences contribute to a broader understanding of diversity in the art world. Studying her work can promote discussions about representation and the importance of diverse voices in art.

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Xenobia Bailey - textiles artist - yr 8 - colour + shape exploration

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Xenobia Bailey - textiles artist - yr 8 - colour + shape exploration

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The supernaturalist and cultural activist
Just like the Warrior Queen of Ancient Palmyra that inspired Bailey to go by the name of Xenobia, she’s a rebel at heart. Her interest in craftsmanship took full bloom after university; drawing influence from African philosophies, she combines needlecraft and funk aesthetics to de-traumatise lost fables.

Cultural Awareness: Introducing students to Bailey's art promotes understanding of African American culture and history, fostering empathy and appreciation for diverse backgrounds.

Her innovative use of textiles and vibrant colours can inspire students to explore different artistic mediums, encouraging creativity and self-expression.

By highlighting her social commentary, students can learn how art can be a powerful tool for activism and change, motivating them to consider their own roles in addressing societal issues.

Featuring diverse artists like Bailey helps students see themselves reflected in the art world, which can boost their confidence and inspire them to pursue their own artistic ambitions.

https://madmuseum.org/learn/xenobia-bailey-0

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Born with a developmental condition, Katayama uses self-portraiture along with hand-made sewn props to document the everyday struggles that she is presented with.

Katayama argues that working with a needle and thread is more meaningful to the everyday life, rather than working with plaster to make her props and plaster and medias alike are accessible to the majority.

By working intuitively, Katayama has been able to capture the past pain and trauma from the amputation of her legs at the age of 9, therefore by making and wearing these hand-made body props, we get a sense of her determination and eagerness to document her challenges.

LINKS TO LEARNING :

Students could work together to tackle an issue that is meaningful to them, they could produce a photo journal, documenting their approaches to the issues through a creative and interpretive way.

By students having to make their own props, much like Katayama, they would hopefully feel more intuitive to documenting their interests in ideas surrounding the context of their choice. Again hopefully making the work become meaningful to them and something that they can confidently comment on.

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Mari Katayama uses her body and the materials she finds around her to make self-portraits, embroidered objects and living sculptures

Playing with conventions of the self-portrait, Katayama creates hand-sewn sculptures and photographs that prompt conversations and challenge misconceptions about our bodies. Born with the developmental condition congenital tibial hemimelia, Katayama chose to have her legs amputated at the age of nine. Her wearable sculptures, which also feature in her images, often include limbs, hands and embellished hearts. She has said, 'The hearts I make are always "broken" hearts. That's because a broken heart, which has been bumped, tumbled and battered, shines like a mirror ball, and reflects light from multiple sides, good and bad, much more than a fresh and smooth heart without a scratch.'

This display shows a range of work created in the last 20 years. Katayama's work reflects her belief that contemporary art is based on your own experiences. She uses everyday materials that she finds around her - including her own body, clothes and newspaper clippings - to make her sculptures and images. Commenting on her process, Katayama says: 'I make objects with a needle and thread because I believe they are the most powerful mediums. Compared to plaster, wood or metal, they are light, easy to handle and accessible to everyone.'

Mari Katayama, bystander #23

bystander #23 is a performative self-portrait made by the artist from the wider series bystander, which comprises twenty-four works in total. bystander #14 is also in Tate's collection (Tate P82669). In these photographs Katayama is wearing a soft sculpture of her own design comprised of stuffed textile arms in various flesh colours. Some represent Katayama's own hands and arms, others those of villagers in the community in which she made the work. All are stitched with small pearls and decorated with white lace. In bystander #23 Katayama is shown close up, seated on soft furnishings. The sculpture is draped around her shoulders and torso, and her legs are bare. In bystander #14 Katayama appears to wear this sculpture as a skirt, as she lays on the beach. A large soft sculpture of her legs is just behind her and the sea is in the background.

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Mari Katayama, I'm wearing little high heels I have child's feet

Mari Katayama, I'm wearing little high heels, I have child's feet

I'm wearing little high heels and I have child's feet feature Katayama posed in her bedroom in Gunma, Japan. She is surrounded by personal possessions - including clothing, fabrics and sewing equipment - and a life-sized, embroidered soft sculpture in the shape of a human body. Both photographs closely relate to Katayama's work as an activist and public speaker. Frustrated by the fact that high heels for wearers of prosthetic limbs were not readily available, Katayama began to make her own. The work developed into the High Heel Project, where she documents her process of making and wearing high heels with artificial legs.
Gallery label, October 2023

Mari Katayama, bystander #14

In this self-portrait, Katayama is wearing one of her soft sculptures made from stuffed textile arms. She is lying down on Naoshima Island in Japan's Seto Inland Sea. Made during the artist's residency there, the hands and arms represent both Katayama and residents from the local community. The bystander series is the first time other people's bodies featured in her work. Stitched with small pearls and decorated with white lace, the sculpture appears to be part of her body yet also alien to her at the same time. This may suggest both the difficulty and the power of living with others, which Katayama encountered during the residency.
Gallery label, October 2023

Art in this room

Mari Katayama bystander #23

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Mari Katayama I'm wearing little high heels I have child's feet

Mari Katayama I'm wearing little high heels, I have child's feet

Mari Katayama bystander #14

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Mari Katayama uses her body and the materials she finds around her to make self-portraits, embroidered objects and living sculptures Playing with conventions of the self-portrait, Katayama creates hand-sewn sculptures and photographs that prompt conversations and challenge misconceptions about our bodies.

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Kenojuak Ashevak - yr 7 totem pole ink project

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Kenojuak Ashevak - yr 7 totem pole ink project

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1927-2013

Kenojuak Ashevak was a celebrated Canadian Inuit artist. Her drawings and prints, comprised of simple, stylised motifs and coded symbols of Inuit culture and folklore, brought her international acclaim. In addition to her best-known works, she also maintained a diverse practice which included soapstone carving, textiles, and design.

Relates to previous learning on totem poles. Experimenting with a range of mediums, colour theory and global artist history. Textiles design, stained glass and drawing inks.

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Kenojuak Ashevak was a celebrated Canadian Inuit artist. Her drawings and prints, comprised of simple, stylized motifs and coded symbols of Inuit culture and folklore, brought her international acclaim. "There is no word for art," she once said. "We say it is to transfer something from the real to the unreal. I am an owl, and I am a happy owl. I like to make people happy and everything happy. I am the light of happiness and I am a dancing owl." In addition to her best-known works, she also maintained a diverse practice which included soapstone carving, textiles, and design. Born on October 3, 1927 in the Inuit camp of Ikirasaq in Northwest Canada, Ashevak became regarded as a notable pioneer of Modern Inuit art, with her art becoming diffused into Canadian culture through its reproductions on postage stamps, currency, and exhibits in national museums. She was inducted in Canada's Walk of Fame in 2001 before her death on January 8, 2013 on Dorset Island, Canada at the age of 85.

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Kenojuak Ashevak was a celebrated Canadian Inuit artist. View Kenojuak Ashevak's 744 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available prints and multiples, works on paper, and sculpture for sale and learn about the artist.

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Tadei's work is characterised by her bold use of colour and materials, including mosaic, glass, bronze and feathers.

An example of sculptural work on a large scale - exhibited at the Yorkshire sculpture park (a gallery which shows work outside. Some students are unfamiliar with this)

Animal Instincts | Yorkshire Sculpture Park

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Prince Gyasi, b.1995 is a Ghanaian international visual artist and co-founder of a non-profit organization Boxedkids, which helps kids from Accra get an education. His commonly known photo prints explore and capture the atmosphere and vibrancy of his community, whilst challenging traditional narratives about Africa. His work explores the beauty of black bodies, elitism of art and motherhood/fatherhood/childhood. Useful and relatable artist for students who want to explore photography and colour, representing their culture and heritage and a focus on underprivileged youth

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Immediately upon seeing Ghanaian artist Prince Gyasi’s photo prints, one is struck by the soulful and vibrant colors. Colors are an essential element in Gyasi’s work. His vivid hues are more than aesthetically appealing because for Gyasi, “color can serve as a therapy, it can treat depression and transform emotions.” ​ Gyasi is unique in many ways. This 23 year old forthright artist has always been drawn to the visual arts. From an early age, Prince was exposed to photography, color, and composition. Prince, “when my mother went fabric shopping at Makola Market, she’d drop me off at this photographer’s small studio.” In high school, Prince began experimenting with photography, capturing photos of the world around him using his cellphone. Since then he has purposefully continued to create with his phone, saying, “the norm is not for everyone. I’m different and I’m stubborn. I like to challenge myself to do the same thing that traditional photographers do using just my phone” (interview, Nataal Magazine). ​ Prince creates images that are bold, hopeful, and tell the stories of marginalized individuals who are often pushed aside in society. Most of his images are created in his hometown of Accra, using the surrounding landscapes and community as his muse. Each hyper colorful print reveals fundamental human emotions that are tied in with a person’s life such as fatherhood, motherhood or childhood. Using his iPhone, Prince captures both resiliency and strength through his striking silhouettes placed against brightly altered landscapes and vivid backgrounds. His art showcases the nobility and grace of black skin, offering viewers a counter-narrative to dominant notions of beauty. ​ Community is important to Prince. In addition to being a professional artist, he is the co-founder of BoxedKids, the title referring to “kids who are trapped in a place or situation,” which helps underprivileged children from Jamestown, Accra. Since the start of this foundation, Gyasi has collaborated with kids from this area, bringing creativity to their lives as well as setting up funds for their education, “so they can make a better future for themselves” (interview, Sukeban Magazine). ​ Prince Gyasi was signed to Nil Gallery Paris in 2018 and had a solo show at the gallery in November 2018. His works have also been exhibited at the Seattle Art Fair 2018, the Pulse Miami Beach Contemporary art fair, and the Investec Cape Town art fair. In December, Vanity Fair included Prince Gyasi in their article “9 of the Most Exciting Artists to Follow from Miami Art Week 2018,” rating him as number five out of nine. ​ In December 2018, he worked with Apple Inc. on a project in Ghana entitled “A Great Day in Accra.” The documentary highlighted the HipLife music scene in Ghana. In this project, he shot Ghanaian HipLife musicians like Gyedu-Blay Ambolley, Reggie Rockstone, and Okyeame Kwame, among others.Most recently, in March, Prince was interviewed about his art by BBC World and BBC Africa. ​ Prince currently lives and works in Accra, Ghana.

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Year 9- Architecture Project, Alternatives to John Piper (Kambel Smith)

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Year 9- Architecture Project, Alternatives to John Piper (Kambel Smith)

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Context :

In Year 9, there is a project that focuses on architectural drawings, collage, and layering of media. This results in a double sketchbook page focused on John Piper, followed by a final design that incorporates mixed media collage techniques, including observational drawing and mark-making. However, you could explore other artists who use similar techniques but address more modern themes.

Lesson Ideas :

Instead of just focusing on John Piper, who is an artist whose main medium is architectural drawing, you could use Kambel Smith, who explores similar themes but creates sculptures made from cardboard and paper. The students could create something similar in these books or as a sculpture.

Artist information

Kambel Smith creates large-scale sculptures representing iconic works of architecture using cardboard salvaged from the trash and other discarded materials such as foamcore and paint.”

“Smith was diagnosed with Autism when he was eight years old. During the past ten years, his father has engaged the artist in daily improvised storytelling, encouraging Smith to participate in the created narrative by making drawings and sculpture.”

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I don't remember the most defining moment of my life, but one thing that's very clear is how angry I was. Maybe the anger is the reason why I can't recall what happened, but my father believes it was the moment that saved my life.

In my bedroom, he found a pile of crumpled papers. They were drawings expressing my view of the world through actual enemies in battle with superhumans I created to help me fight them. I hid the drawings because they symbolized the world that would not accept me, but for my father they uncovered a talent that would ultimately change my life.

He began to create stories about the characters in my drawings. Those stories opened up a whole new world for me. In the years following, we created dozens of new characters, published four novels, created an animated motion picture, and accumulated over 400 paintings and drawings, but little did I know this was just the beginning of my artistic journey.

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I don't remember the most defining moment of my life, but one thing that's very clear is how angry I was. Maybe the anger is the reason why I can't recall what happened, but my father believes it was the moment that saved my life. In my bedroom, he found a pile of crumpled papers.

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Rebellious Silence, 1994, RC print and ink, 46 5/8 x 31 1/8”.

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Shirin Neshat, Iranian photographer, Y9+, Cozmin

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Shirin Neshat, Iranian photographer, Y9+, Cozmin

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https://bordercrossingsmag.com/images/made/images/articles/_resized/neshat3_800_501_90.jpg

The barrel of a rifle divides her face in two, making it look like a mask. Neshat is herself the model for this last photograph, one image among many that are difficult to situate. Who are these women? Why are the visible parts of their skin covered with love poetry while their hands and feet cradle weapons? Neshat likes their inherent ambiguity. “What can be threatening,” she remarks, “can also be very beautiful.” Writing in The Guardian, she said her photographs were “a peculiar intersection between sexuality, politics and violence.” In the unsettling romance engendered by these images, happiness is, inescapably, a warmed gun.

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Designs for an Overpopulated Planet: Foragers, 2009

For this project Dunne & Raby look at evolutionary processes and molecular technologies and how we can take control. The assumption is that governments and industry together will not solve the problem and that groups of people will need to use available knowledge to build their own solutions, bottom-up.

Pupils in a classroom:

To combat climate change

how can we evolve in the changing environment - the way that we eat?

get them to imagine what may happen to us - evolve or technology?

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Barbara Walker

"Barbara Walker MBE, RA is a British artist based in Birmingham in the UK. Her work is informed by the social, political and cultural realities that affect her life and the lives of those around her. Growing up in Birmingham, her experiences have directly shaped a practice concerned with issues of class and power, gender, race, representation and belonging. Her figurative drawings and paintings tell contemporary stories hinged on historical circumstances, making them universally understood and reflecting a human perspective on the state of affairs in her native Britain and elsewhere."

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Artist page for Claudette Johnson MBE (born 1959)

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Lavett Ballard (B.1970) Creates images to tell stories out of collage. The images are painted, destroyed and reborn into new art. Also creates installations. Ballard views her art as a re-imagined visual narrative of people of African descent. Her use of imagery reflects social issues affecting primarily Black women’s stories. Very useful to share with students to demonstrate how to collage and develop / communicate stories within their art. 

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Lavett Ballard | The Original Art of Lavett B.

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Neither sculpture nor drawing, Feng’s piece is composed of hundreds of tracing paper buildings of various sizes, their laser- printed details deriving from images of city architecture, which are grouped in dense clusters and hung from the ceiling with transparent fish tackle thread.

Website - https://www.saatchigallery.com/artist/han_feng

How could you put this to pupils:

pupils could look at the houses where they live - incorporate the pupils houses together?

Installation work that could exhibit for open evenings?