Art - a Beacon Department

Sharing Success: Opportunities to share good practice among members of the teaching profession.

Read reviews of past events for this subject:

Glass Fusing Workshop >>
Introductory Workshop in Art Therapy >>
Felt Making Workshop >>

PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGERY WITHOUT A DARKROOM
Monday 13 July 2009
9.30—3.30
The HENLEY College Rotherfield Site

Using easily obtainable chemicals, teachers had the opportunity to create photographic images from a range of materials, including acetate negatives and natural objects. The images produced were Prussian blue and this was the process used by architects to produce blueprints.

The images are easily produced and can be used by students for a range of applications, particularly beneficial in art and design. The images are exposed using daylight and are processed with water.

Participants had the opportunity to coat their own paper and produce images using a range of different negatives. Paper and chemicals were provided.

9.30 Registration and Coffee
9.45 Introduction; coating of paper using chemicals; creating negatives
12.00 Lunch—a light lunch will be provided
1.00 Exposing paper; processing; discussion
3.30 Tea and depart

The workshop was led by Jude Wall, Photography Lecturer at The HENLEY College. Jude is a graduate of the University of Brighton and has taught at the University of Kingston. She has her own practice and is an architectural photographer. Her exhibitions include a solo at Oxford Castle.

“ Very helpful and informative. Excellent opportunity to share good practice.”

“Fantastic day, really inspiring and exciting!”

“Very enjoyable – certainly will be using the idea for pupils”

'FROM ROCK TO FLEECE' with Mel Gannon
JULY 2008

A felt workshop to capture the essence of Chesil Beach in Dorset by exploring textured and sculptural surfaces.The size of pebbles on the shoreline varies from one end of the beach to another. Attendees worked to recreate the cobbled surface of the landscape with sculptural felt making techniques using a palette of subtle shades.

GLASS FUSING with Shirley Eccles
OCTOBER 2008

An introductory course covering the basics in glass fusing

The aim of the course was to offer art teachers a new and exciting medium they could introduce to their schools in an easy, safe and creative way.

Different projects were covered to get technical information on types of glass, fusing, annealing and firing. Using a Microwave kiln attendees experimented to create a small fused piece of jewellery with coloured bulls eye glass and have instant results.

Shirley Eccles is a qualified art teacher and practising artist. She has worked in a variety of media (painting, ceramics, sculpture) but her passion is the art and craft of glass. Her broad practical knowledge has brought her to glass from a different perspective and it is this understanding and experience she wishes to share with other teachers to enable them to use glass as an accessible art medium in schools.

Shirley loves to experiment with glass techniques and has studied and exhibited in the UK, Germany and the USA. Her work has been accepted for the British Glass Biennale and she has won a scholarship at the Pilchuck School of Glass in America. Shirley is resident artist at New Greenham Arts as well as schools and in the community.