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

Cecilia Granara graduated from St George's in 2009. After completing a foundation course at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, she is currently studying to complete a BA in Fine Arts at St Martin's College of Art and Design, London. In this exact moment she is at the Ecole Nationale Superieure Beaux Arts, Paris, on an Erasmus exchange.

This is her website:

 

Ideas and resources to help Y13 with current IWB task (the significance of media in artworks)

Some interesting sculptural projects in a range of unusual media

A relevant blog to start you off...

Materials & meanings

Another good page

Follow the links to the artists' sites

How does an artist's choice of medium impact upon the final outcome?

Prior to Duchamp & Picasso. most sculptors used ceramics, carved stone, bone, plaster or wood and cast metal to express their ideas. Now available media might include frozen blood, vaseline, waste products, sharks and formaldehyde, condoms, old tights, kebabs, cigarette ends, used engine oil, the artist's own body....

Or in this case - the artist Gianni Motti presents a bar of soap that he claims is made from fat that was liposuctioned from Silvio Berlusconi:

Latest Y13 Workbook task:

Open publication

We did it!

Good Work Art Monkeys. You totally rocked the MAXXI!

 

photos by Oli R and Mr M

Jonathan Moen's Painting Published in The Sunday Telegraph (23/09/12)

The work was selected from the many thousands on the 

Saatchi Gallery Schools' Art Prize site

Images to inspire Y12 artists working on their MAXXI performance sculptural garments

Latest updates on the TEDxTransmedia events that we are participating in at the MAXXI

Our catalogue for the 2012 
IB Art Exhibition at SGBIS

Gallery Dreaming - some ideas

Here are a couple of my own ideas for the MAXXI, plus one from ex-SGBIS Art student Jona Smulders Cohen (more info HERE)