The teacher’s preview evening of ‘The
First Cut’ exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery
included the opportunity to work with artists Nicola Dale and Andrew Singleton. Initially, the artists gave
us an overview of their work to date and afterwards delivered workshops where they
shared their secrets with us!
This proved to be great fun and it was beneficial to us all as educators
to be in the position of a learner for a change! I enjoyed the workshops so
much that I took the ideas back to school and challenged my Year 12 students to
take Nicola and Andrew’s ideas on board. Students were shown the artists’ work
and after a demonstration were asked to work in small teams to explore the
qualities of paper.
Students initially experimented with different techniques ranging from
piercing and slicing to rolling and wrapping. They were then asked to use the
best of their ideas to create a group piece that could be hung in the style of
Andrew Singleton. Their homework task was to take an old Manchester Art Gallery
guide and create a small sculpture from it, as Nicola had asked us to do during
her workshop. They were given the theme of water as the old guide was for a
watercolour exhibition. One of the results of this task can be seen below. 
It is interesting to see that this paper workshop and exhibition are
still influencing students today as they work towards their final submission
for Unit 3. I look forward to seeing the end results and would like to say a
big thank you to Manchester Art Gallery, Nicola and Andrew for delivering such
an inspirational session back in July.
What a fabulous ship! You can always rely on our students to produce something magnificent. A lovely post too, as always.
ReplyDeleteThanks Sue! The student who produced the ship is making a paper animation which should be fab too.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely loved this exhibition. It's great to read your post about it.
ReplyDeleteThanks Vanessa, it was great to see so many artists I like in one space. Sad it has gone now!
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