On Friday 10th November Hugo Bugg came in to talk to art students about making a career out of their passions. We are very lucky to have so many ex Woodroffe students who have gone onto have highly successful careers in the visual arts, and Hugo, the youngest ever winner of Best in show at the Chelsea Flower Show in no exception.
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On the 6th July we took the train from Axminster to Waterloo, to get a chance to soak up some urban culture and visit the Tate Modern and the newly refurbished National Portrait gallery. Students used the opportunity to find first hand and contextual references for their coursework project. The skies were blue, the exhibitions were great and whilst this one is always a long day, it often provides the basis for brilliant ideas that evolve over the next five months.
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Sixth form Art, Graphics and Photography students spent three days in Cornwall this month on a residential trip designed to enhance their understanding of university life, expose them to exciting courses relevant to their studies and allow them to visit fabulous artworks first hand to get a sense of what they really look like in the flesh.
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This February/March was our 24th Town Mill show and below is photo taken a few months ago of some of the students whose work featured in our very first show in 2000.
Back then we (our Sixth Form) were working with an artist in residence called Nick Evans using boat building skills learned on the seafront at our local academy to create artwork for the Town Mill show.
In half term the Art department hired a minibus and drove off to London with our sixth form Art/Graphics/Photography students.
The plan was to see as much art in 48 hours as was humanly possible to help students with their ideas for the recently released exam paper, and to get the lower sixth thinking about their own thematic study which is about to begin.
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On the 12th Of January Year 10 and 11 BTEC students travelled to London to explore how the many visual aspects of the Harry Potter movies were created and look closely at the type of professions that make these things happen.
We were fast tracked into the studios and given some freebies to take away that were great examples of the graphics created to bring the films to life. The students took notes of the specifics of costume creation, set design, latex modelling, concept design, graphics and model making which will all feed into their own work for the course.
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Life drawing need not always be purely based in the human form as year 10 Graphics students discovered last week.
Whilst working on a re-branding project involving dinosaurs they were treated to a life-drawing session with a living raptor, Winnipeg the Eagle, the closest thing they could safely get to a dinosaur.
At the start of the year, we planned to re-invigorate the graffiti wall which after more than a decade was looking a bit tired.
The new build had concealed the wall, and whilst it was given a good undercoat and the climbing holds where attached we planned the designs to fit its new, more functional purpose. These ideas came from the students with over 60 of them coming forward with climbing related themes and motifs.
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