Year 9 Curriculum Guide



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Subject: Art & Design

Subject Leader: Keith Swainson





Topics that will be taught

How can parents help

The themes will be taken from some of the categories and explored with practical work in each academic year. Themes will vary according to class and teacher.
Themes include Ancient, Modern, Contemporary and

Multicultural


Practice and extension of many skills and processes from year 8 including drawing, painting, printmaking, ceramics, graphics, three dimensional and ICT.
Extending skills and processes learned and applying in a more self-directed independent manner with a view to develop towards GCSE style thought processes and development.
Testing process

Initial bench mark drawing at start of year

Drawing and evaluating test
Drawing skills

Extending range of media, techniques, control and use. Exploration and experimentation relevant to art work


Painting skills

Selection of media and materials appropriate to requirements of work


Ceramics skills

Construction development of all techniques, press and slab moulding


Printmaking skills

Explore print forms and extend as appropriate to students needs
Showing an interest in the skills and themes covered.
Make a suitable space available for making art work, a table or drawing board.
Visit museums, galleries, sculpture parks and exhibitions and encourage dialogue about specific pieces of work which can be followed up and researched after visit.
Encourage your child to record images with photographs, collect images in a scrap book.

Engage with your child by working alongside and produce artefacts with them.


Focus on engagement with exploring curiosity.




Topics that will be taught

How can parents help



Graphics skills

Design process, advertising and packaging, illustration as an application of art.


3D skills

Appropriate methods and materials for 3D solutions


ICT skills

ICT selected as appropriate to students work


Thinking skills

Show the relationship between own work and the work of others

Art work as inspiration, artist work connected to students’ work.

Connections can be through use of media, stylistic thematic or conceptual.

Students make own selections of others work.
Developing work Processes Developing with reference to prior years and making more self-directed independent work.
Abstraction & Realism (figurative) processes - Produce work in both areas

Show an informed understanding of the nature of the forms

Be able to explain various methods of producing each form.






Reference/Extension Material: ART


Literature

There are too many to mention but a good start would be with The Art Book, Phaidon.


Main Galleries London /Oxford

  • Tate Britain

  • Tate Modern

  • Saatchi

  • National Portrait Gallery

  • Modern Art Oxford

  • Ashmolean

  • White Cube

  • White Chapel

  • Sepentine Gallery

  • The National Gallery

  • The Photographers Gallery

  • The British Museum

  • Royal Academy of Arts

  • Hayward Gallery

  • County Hall


Local Galleries

  • The Old Fire Station Gallery

  • The Roald Dahl Gallery

  • The Lemon Grove Gallery

  • The Stanley Spencer Gallery

  • Jelly Legg’d Chicken

  • Modern Artists Gallery

  • Bohun Gallery


Famous Gallery Streets

and Studios

  • Cork Street, London

  • Oxford Open Studios

  • Reading Open Hand Studios


Annual Events and Awards

  • Turner Prize

  • Jerwood Prize

  • Artspace

  • Art 200…

  • RA Summer Exhibition

  • University Degree shows

Websites

Excellent art search engines

http://www.artchive.com/

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/


www.tate.org

www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk

www.npg.org.uk

www.modernartoxford.org.uk

www.ashmolean.org

www.whitecube.com

www.whitechapelgallery.org

www.serpentinegallery.org

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

www.photographersgallery.comwww.britishmuseum.org

www.royalacademy.org.uk

www.southbankcentre.co.uk

www.londoncountyhall.com

www.thelemongrovegallery.co.uk

www.stanleyspencer.org.uk

www.thejelly.wordpress.com

www.modernartistsgallery.com

www.bohungallery.co.uk


Places of Inspiration

  • Burlington Arcade

  • Oxfordshire Arboretum

  • Camden Market

  • Reading museum

  • Victorian and Albert Museum

  • South Hill Park Arts Centre

  • River and Rowing Museum

  • Pitt Rivers Museum


Television and Radio

  • Radio 4 Front Row

  • South Bank Show

  • Culture Show

  • Arena




Contact Email: Subject Leader: kswainson@gillotts.org.uk





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