Recent St George's Art on 
the Saatchi Gallery Site

HERE

I have not been great at updating this blog since we started using the Facebook group for most of our Art based communication and discussion. Have a look at these Art Blogs for now!

http://contemporaryartblogs.com/blogs

Some of Mr Morgan's Pinterest Boards:

http://www.pinterest.com/gregelvis/drawing-is-important/

http://www.pinterest.com/gregelvis/interesting-portraits/

http://www.pinterest.com/gregelvis/art-general/

http://www.pinterest.com/gregelvis/st-georges-at-tedx-transmedia-2013/

Year Twelve Tasks

Year 12 IB Artists :

To help you build upon all of your ongoing portrait  work and to gain a clear understanding of the entire IB Art process, you will be using some of the online resources that I have been developing for Triple A Learning.

The two main units are available for you to download

Here

and

Here

We shall refer to them in class and look at at a lot of the linked material. However, your work may well develop in ways that are beyond what is described in the project units...

(nb the content filter blocks the file site in school, so you can only see them off site)

St George's Students Scoop Top Prizes in Vivi Vejo Art Competition

 

Senior Category:

 1st Prize:  Elena Zanchini Y11 (work pictured above)

2nd Prize: Livia Bresciani Y12

3rd Prize: Chiara Castrovillari Y11

Middle Category:

 1st Prize:  Ruihong Jiang Y8

2nd Prize: Conor Leo Y8

Gabriel Carucci shortlisted for Saatchi Gallery / Sunday Telegraph Art Prize for Schools

This IB painting by recent St George's graduate Gabriel Carucci has been shortlisted for the Saatchi Gallery / Sunday Telegraph Art Prize for Schools, sponsored by Deutsche Bank.The work,  entitled  'Forms of Knowledge' was one of the key exhibits in his 2012 IB Visual Arts Exhibition. It explores aspects of his childhood in Ethiopia and Italy.

The 20 shortlisted works can be viewed on our website here http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/portfolio/
 

The organizers sent us the following information:

This year’s judging panel was the artist Martin Maloney, the illustrator, Axel Scheffler, Alistair Hicks, Deutsche Bank art advisor and curator, Alastair Smart, arts editor of The Sunday Telegraph, and Rebecca Wilson, director, Saatchi Gallery.

The competition received over 13,000 entries from over 22 countries internationally and the standard was particularly high this year.

The Saatchi Gallery will hold an exhibition of the 20 shortlisted works in April 2013, there will be an opening night where the winner will be announced. Please keep checking our website for dates. 

Thank you for all the hard work you have put into entering the competition this year. We were amazed by the results and we look forward to the exhibition in April.

Ex-St George's student Jess Smulders Cohen is the latest winner of the Christine Risley Award for textiles. Read about her future plans:

http://www.gold.ac.uk/textile-collection/christine-risley/

Paris Art Expedition 2013

This is our hotel:

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Our draft itinerary (full printed itierary will be out later this week)

Thursday: Palais de Tokyo and Latin Quarter

Friday: Louvre , Pompidou and Le Marais

Saturday: Musee d'Orsay and  Montmartre  

Internationally acclaimed street artist 'Miss Van' currently has a solo show at Dorothy Circus  gallery (near Campo) . I met her at the opening on 17/11 - and she was very nice!

Year 12 IB Artists :

To help you build upon all of your ongoing portrait  work and to gain a clear understanding of the entire IB Art process, you will be using some of the online resources that I have been developing for Triple A Learning.

The two main units are available for you to download

Here

and

Here

We shall refer to them in class and look at at a lot of the linked material. However, your work may well develop in ways that are beyond what is described in the project units...

(nb the content filter blocks the file site in school, so you can only see them off site)

Mr Morgan's Helpful Art College Application Guide

It's not pretty, but it might just help you to get into the foundation course of your dreams:

Download the PDF HERE