Subject Leader: Keith Swainson

Multicultural

Testing process - Initial bench mark drawing at start of year.

Drawing based progress test at the end of the year.
Drawing – tone, composition, mark making, negative space.
Sculpture – experimentation with creating 3D form including ceramics
Painting – basic colour theory and colour mixing, qualities of different types of paint including ready mix, acrylic and watercolour and application of paint
Printmaking – exploring variety of techniques and processes
Graphics including Photoshop - Basic Image manipulation
Basic dry media -pencils, coloured pencils, felt pens, chalk pastels and wax crayons
Thinking - Speaking and listening including class discussions about the work of others (both artists and other students’ work)
Evaluation and reviewing including peer and self-assessment
Understanding art concepts and context of art, craft and design with their own and other work
Written evaluation of the work of Artists, Designers and Craftspeople
Understanding of Key words

Using specialist art vocabulary including research skills – Internet art search engines, books and magazines/journals
Developing work processes – Showing progression through practice to make: Improvement in use of media, observational skills and line and tonal work.
Experimentation in media and concepts
Developing own concepts

Woking with various elements (both 2D and 3D), to make a composition

Make a suitable space available for making art work, a table or drawing board.

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

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

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  Tate Britain
  
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  Tate Modern
  
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  Saatchi
  
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  National Portrait Gallery
  
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  Modern Art Oxford
  
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  Ashmolean
  
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  White Cube
  
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  White Chapel
  
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  Serpentine Gallery
  
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  The National Gallery
  
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  The Photographers Gallery
  
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  The British Museum
  
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  Royal Academy of Arts
  
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  Hayward Gallery
  
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  County Hall
  

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  The Old Fire Station Gallery
  
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  The Roald Dahl Gallery
  

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  The Lemon Grove Gallery
  
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  The Stanley Spencer Gallery
  
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  Jelly Legg’d Chicken
  
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  Modern Artists Gallery
  
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  Bohun Gallery
  

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  Cork Street, London
  
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  Oxford Open Studios
  
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  Reading Open Hand Studios
  

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  Turner Prize
  
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  Jerwood Prize
  
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  Artspace
  
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  Art 200…
  
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  RA Summer Exhibition
  
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  University Degree shows
  

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  Burlington Arcade
  
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  Oxfordshire Arboretum
  
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  Camden Market
  
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  Reading museum
  
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  Victorian and Albert Museum
  
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  South Hill Park Arts Centre
  
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  River and Rowing Museum
  
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  Pitt Rivers Museum
  

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  Radio 4 Front Row
  
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  South Bank Show
  
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  Culture Show
  
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  Arena