The soundtrack from the With/Without short film is available for download or streaming. The track, written and performed by Rosie B and Rachel W is maybe not to everyone’s listening taste, though I think it’s fantastic.
You can now also send me your tracks through Soundcloud and I can feature them if they’re any good. Click on the Soundcloud dropbox at the bottom of the right column.
Chloe with her teacher, Ms Ledingham
Chloe’s Young Brits at Art 2010 win/Saatchi presence continues to attract attention over the web and papers. Below are a few links to various websites featuring her accomplishments.
Chloe L was featured in this week’s Big Issue. The article gives an idea of the media attention and excitement that comes during and after the Young Brits at Art Awards. With Chloe being a joint winner, there should be even more attention to follow.
This Artwork of the Week has been a long time coming. I think I overlooked it due to just being too busy and the works being created for YBAA were so good and plentiful that I didn’t get a chance to revisit it. Alison C‘s (S3, Duncanrig) work was such a simple a beautiful idea. The triptych work was based around prejudice and prejudice is formed from not knowing. We lack knowledge due to things being harder to see, hidden, in the dark. So, Alison turned the light on for us. It’s a really clever idea, an idea that the Equality and Human Rights Commission loved too, making it one of their top 100 shortlisted entries for YBAA.
Sorry this took me so long Alison, but it’s such a lovely piece, it was really worth waiting for.
A slideshow of the Top 100 is now on show, you can also view the entries individually over at the commission’s Flickr account. Below are the seven top 100 entries that were connected through myself, by either a workshop or just working with a pupil or set of pupils.
I recently featured the work of Katie H-M (from S5, Oban High) in a pupil profile and have a little update for those that were as mesmerised by her work as I was. Katie has been in touch and she has collected some thoughts and her favourite photo to enter into the Young Brits at Art competition.
The competition closes on the 30th April, so those that are a little bored of me going on about it will be happy to know that I will be thoroughly ‘shushed’ after that.
Anyway, Katie has emailed me her work and I will submit it directly through the website as a single entry. In the meantime, enjoy the finished entry below:
The Young Brits At Art Workshop I hosted in Caldervale High, Airdrie was given some press in the Airdrie Advertiser. Featuring some photographs I had shot of the workshop the piece shows the strength and impact of the pupil pieces created. Thanks so much to Ms Lyon for emailing me the scan above.
A fabulous artwork of the week this week, from Oban High School. Anna C took part in the day workshop for the Young Brits At Art competition and was able to create these marvelous mixed media piece. It’s mostly painted in Acrylics with ripped paper, sharpies and a little touch of stenciling too.
Anna’s idea came to her when she was thinking about the pressures in her own life. There is so much responsibility on youth to succeed and achieve. Most permanently live their life in the spotlight, whether it be with online presence or through successes, there seems to be a lot more importance on ‘status’ with young people than there used to be when I was growing up.
Anna’s use of the word ‘FAIL’ is no accident, it symbolises failure to succeed in exams, in life and with image, presence and status. It is a common internet term that is usually used to sum up something that has gone terribly wrong for someone, though onlookers are invited to laugh at the situation and to revel in the failure.
Such a marvellous piece, dramatic, meaningful, of the moment and lingering. I wish Anna all the best in the competition.
This week’s masterpiece comes from Chloe L from Ladywell School. Chloe had to create a piece of art inspired by David Shrigley in a two hour workshop. At first she was not too certain about what she wanted to base her painting on, though after discussing some ideas with Miss Ledingham she had decided that she wanted to paint something positive, aiming for a beach scene.
After some discussion with myself about the aim of the competition and the issues it’s trying to address Chloe had agreed that her piece should say something more. We were talking about the faceless houses along the beach and that although all the houses looked similar, there were different things going on in each one. She highlighted a house by darkening it to contrast it against the row and decided that there would be an argument going on.
This makes what is a pretty and simple beach scene very interesting and thought provoking. Something that the competition asks for. It makes us imagine what could be happening, it pushes us into the scene and makes us become part of the drama. I do feel that Chloe has produced a simple, but visually stunning image, producing thoughts that linger on with us long after viewing. Hopefully the judges will have similar tastes and she will do well.
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