Leaving Certificate Craft Exam

Over the past week the Leaving Certificate Craft work was examined here at the College. Posted today are some examples of the clay modelling work created for this exam.

Toni Hoffmann

Daniel Roden

Imogen Wardell

The Art Books of Henri Matisse

Today Form Primary and Form I visited the Chester Beatty Library where the Art Books of Henri Matisse are on Exhibition. Included in the exhibition are four of his most famous books, two of which are owned by the library and his celebrated 'Jazz' book which is on loan from the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection. 

The exhibition will run until September 25th. 

 Icarus

In The News...

Over the last couple of days the Irish Times has published articles on two exhibitions both worth visiting.  Firstly, the link to the full article on the Annual RHA exhibition is HERE. The exhibition includes work by T.P. Flanagan, Erin Quinn and Rachel Parry.

The second article, published today, discusses The Art Works Of Henri Matisse going on display at the Chester Beatty Library. Read the full article HERE.

Future Columban Artists!



Squares with concentric circles by Wassily Kandinsky.

Today the College hosted an induction day for new Junior entrants to the College for the next academic year. The Art Department had an opportunity to tap into their create side this afternoon, and inspired by the work of Wassily Kandinsky they produced a huge mural in less than one hour!  In fact until the work is fully dry and hanging on a wall it is impossible to photograph it as a mural! 

Photos posted below show the process as well as sections of the finished mural.

Business as usual!

It appears that we may have sorted our technical glitch  and now hope posting can continue as usual!

Posted today is work by Form II. They spent last week examining the concept of emotions and feelings and how they are expressed. Firstly they chose an emotion from a list provided, and were asked to reflect the meaning of the word in the text of the word. This could include imagery as well as suitable use of colour, size, shape and type of font.

Their next exercise in exploring the concept of how we experience emotions and feelings is to create an 'emotional box'. Once again pupils were asked to choose an emotion from a list provided and to create a box in which the emotion can be felt . Results will be posted in the coming weeks and it will be interesting to see how we image emotions can be tangibly felt!

 (Please excuse spelling error above !)

Hiccup!

Scc Art have been experiencing some technical difficulties in recent days but hope to have it sorted very soon..... sorry!

Examinations

The Leaving Certificate and Junior Certificate Exams are now over. They were held last week and now our Leaving Certificate and Junior Certificate pupils are feeling very relieved!

Senior cycle pupils took the craft paper and disciplines such as clay modelling and batik were explored. The Junior Certificate drawing exam allowed for a number of man made or organic objects to be drawn. These were then added to their projects along with their life drawings and the envelopes were sealed.

Identity

The Form I Identity project has continued to develop over the last week. All pupils are using text to help to portray their identity pictire. Some pupils have also opted to use colour. Posted today are some examples of the work in progress.

Identity

School has now resumed for the final Trinity Term which will bring the academic year 2010/2011 to a close. The Form I began work on a new project yesterday based on the theme of  IDENTITY. Using finger prints as a starting point they will go on to produce an 'Identity Image' which will also incorporate text. Also worth pointing out is our new hugely valuble resource; the projector! (See the photo below!)

After taking finger prints using paint, the pupils began to draw the contour lines from their finger prints on larger sheets of paper. Next they will have to compose suitale text which will also suit their identity.

Gala Concert Poster Competition

Gala Concert Poster Competition entry

by Fenia Miescke, Form V.

3rd place prize.