The Art Department at Hautlieu

Unit 1 Art Handbook - AS Academic year 2018-19

Title: TREASURE ISLAND

Duration: 12 weeks with feedback and controlled assessment 26TH and 27th NOVEMBER

(Studios not accessible 6th and 7th December for GCSE Controlled conditions.)

Study Time: 4 hours studio practice/5 hours’ Self-directed study a week.

7 weeks skills audit/ 63 hours completion of the TREASURE ISLAND 4 weeks/36 hours Total

Hours 99 hours Plus 10 controlled conditions equals 109 hours

First Assessment: SUMMER TASK 4TH TO 10TH SEPTEMBER 2017

Second Assessment: SKILLS AUDIT 22th to 27TH OCTOBER 2017

Final Coursework Assessment: TREASURE ISLAND 13th DECEMBER 2017

Exam Paper given out 7RD JANUARY

AS EXAM - 7th and 8th May

Tutors : Mr Allen, Mrs Rutter and Miss Koester

Brief

WHAT WE WANT YOU TO DO.

Develop a body of work based on the phrase treasure island over the first term completed and assessed BY 13TH December. Your starting point might

be very personal or have global significance. We recommend you use a sketchbook / journal to produce this summer task.

Your summer task must hit four assessment objectives

1. Development- here you must research and record your ideas and findings. This is done through artist reference, photography, drawing, quotations etc.

2. Material

Experimentation- You must use materials appropriate to intentions i.e. gold paint making a sacred object, using real shells to make a

Treasure- any

thing or person greatly valued or highly prized:

sculpture based on the beach or responding to an artist’s work in the media of their practice.

3. Record- You must have a MINIMUM of three sustained drawings from direct observation (that’s from a real thing or place or person, not copied from an artist or downloaded from the internet).

4. Present- Finally present all your findings and produce a final piece in whatever material you deem appropriate.

Remember we are a visual language so how you put things together visually is really important. DO NOT use different coloured gell pens or felt tips to annotate you work, DO NOT use bubble writing. DO NOT put boarders

around things. Use black pen or pencil to explain your ideas. Charity: Spare

Some Change?

Images from recent Jersey-funded projects in (from left) South Sudan, Jordan and

Myanmar (Jersey Overseas Aid)

Do we see individuals with complex inner lives, or do we file them under ‘starving

kids’ or ‘refugees’? Does the £10m / year which Jersey spends alleviating suffering

abroad assuage our conscience or prick it?

Record

All of you will have given (to) charity. Some of you might have worked for a charity.

Few of you will have received charity, but did you know that you live in one of the

only parts of the British Isles that has actually received overseas aid, as well as having

given it? Maybe you’re lucky enough to be able to speak to someone who remembers

the Vega bringing the Island Red Cross parcels in 1944 and 1945. Maybe you know

someone who has been abroad on a volunteer work project with Jersey Overseas Aid.

Maybe you can find stories of charity work closer to home, perhaps with the Hospice

or the RNLI. Visit a project, if you can. Roll your sleeves up. Challenge yourself.

In any case, collect at least one story or incident that illustrates an aspect of Charity

which you find interesting, and record it in a manner (visually or otherwise) which

you find appropriate.

Present

Finally, present all your ideas in one place. Personal, informed, aesthetic, critical –

channel and marshal your findings into a meaningful whole, which links the different

elements together. Add to our understanding – as individuals, as Islanders, as humans

– of what Charity really means.

ARTISTS TO GET YOU STARTED (please also find your own if you wish – these are to start you off with some ideas)

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

1. Brainstorm 2. Dircet observational drawings 3 A4 pages 3. Two artist References 2 A4 pages 4. Two Material experimentations using three materials on each A 4

page 5. Primary sources (own photos) 6. Plan final idea 1 A4 page 7. Resolved art work

Use your chosen artist as a starting point for your own research.

Be clear about your idea. Why have you chosen research this idea?

Document your research,

Look at other artists who have used similar themes, materials or techniques.

CALENDAR 12 WEEKS GRAVITY BRIEF.

Thursday and Tuesday eveninings 3.30 to 5.30 Artist in residence. week

Date ACTIVITY Assesment AOB,s HOMEWORKS

1 5th SEPT

Self assessment AS summer task Begin skills Audit. Folds develop group sculpture and begin drawing

Assessment places in Progress file AO1

2 11TH SEPT

Begin series of material experiments

Art history lecture Raft of the Medusa

Drawing from stages of construction produce three pages of research in work journal.

Individual Action Plans

and Feedback. Progress

file. AO1/AO2

3 18TH SEPT

Art history lecture Gender and art.

Drawing work shops Weight of objects/ making handing objects based on the work of Cornelia Parker

Begin textile workshop with PJ

work journal. Drawing from stages of construction produce three pages of research in work journal. AO3/AO4

4 25TH SEPT

Complete A 1 drawings

Textile workshop with PJ

INITIAL SKILLS PROGRESS ASSESSMENT

WHOLE SCHOOL

Work Journal self reflection and self evaluation AO1/AO3

5 2RD OCT

SKILLS AUDIT DRAWING WORKSHOP two week sustained drawing.

Textile workshop with PJ

Work Journal Artist references AO1/AO3

6 9TH OCT

SKILLS AUDIT WORKSHOP PREPERATION FOR ASSESSMENT two week sustained drawing 13th October year 12 parents evening

Textile workshop with PJ

Annotation of all sketchbook work AO1/AO2/AO3/AO4

7 16TH OCT

ASSESMENT OF SKILLS AUDIT TARGET GRADES

GIVEN 20th OCTOBER SKILLS AUDIT

COMPLETE

UNIT TWO BREIF GIVEN OUT. Textile workshop with

PJ

Work Journal self reflection and self evaluation Individual Action Plans and Feedback.

Progress File

TIME ALLOCATION SIX WEEKS SKILLS AUDIT 4 HOURS A WEEK 28 HOURS

HOMEWORK 5 HOURS A WEEK 35 HOURS (WORK JOURNAL/SKETCHBOOK) TOTAL TIME 63 HOURS

Thursday and Tuesday eveninings 3.30 to 5.30 Artist in residence. week Date ACTIVITY

Assesment AOB,s HOMEWORKS

8 30ST OCT

IDEAS AND DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS FINAL PEICE 3 PAGES IDEAS/ DEVELOPMENT AO1

9 6TH NOV FINALISING IDEAS tell your teachers your

controlled conditions requirements

3 PAGES ARTIST REFERANCE AO2/AO4

10 13TH NOV

Whole school y12 assessments PREPARING CANVES AND BOARDS

3 PAGES MATERIAL EXPERIMENTATION AO2

11 20ST NOV

CONTROLLED CONDITIONS 30th NOV AND 1ST DECEMBER

EVALUATING FINAL IDEAS AO1/AO4

12 27TH NOV

ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK Year 11 controlled conditions 9th and 10th December art rooms will be closed at this time.

ANNOTATING SKETCHBOOK SUBJECT SPECIFIC LAUNGUAGE AO1/AO3/AO4

13 4TH DEC

COMPLETE FOLD COURSEWORK AND ASSESSED THIS IS 505 OF YOUR COURSEWORK GRADE. UNIT TWO BREIF GIVEN OUT

SELF ASSESMENT AGAINST EXAM OBJECTIVES progress file AO1

14 11TH DEC

HAPPY CHRISTMAS HOILDAY Brain storm ideas for unit two

Below are a few ways you could start to explore the word Gravity.

All these ideas are possible from direct experience i.e. you can photograph and draw directly from something

• LANDSCAPE – Record seascapes, countryside, forest or urban views in a wide range of mark making forms. In Jersey we have amazing rock faces and natural structures such as rock arches that defy gravity. Our tides are covered by the moon and gravitational forces.

• FIGURES – Record portraits or full figure drawings in a range of appropriate mark making depicting emotion, movement, peace, rage etc. Gravity talks about forces that pull objects or people together, you might want to look at relationships.

• ARCHITECTURAL – create a series of sculptures and drawings based on half built buildings, bunkers, religious buildings etc. This research can be under both Gravity headings ie physical and the value systems. Buildings can be like monuments memorials keepers of the past occupational landscape of Jersey during the second world war. They can have visual mass or spiritual weighting

• HISTORICAL – Look at ancient Dolmens, religious buildings, museum artefacts and respond with sculptures and drawings. Le Hougue Bie balaned rocks taken from around the island. Balance and weight are visual important when you look at historical buildings as they were meant to be powerful places.

• PERSONAL HERITAGE – look at your ancestors, living relatives, important family objects or heirlooms. These things have personal importance and personal gravitas.

• PATTERN / TEXTILES – Create a series of textile or pattern artworks using nature, urban or seascapes as influenced by Gravity ie long stemmed heavy headed flowers defy gravity. Things grow upwards towards the light but that is in the opposite direction too Gravity

• SCULPTURAL – Find scuklptural objects such as shells, seeds, plants etc. to study and create sculptures from these inspirations alll created and shaped by atmosphere and gravity

• DESTRUCTION / RECONSTRUCTION – Take an object, destroy it, recreate it in a different form, record, continue…this has gravity in its meaning.