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Tuesday, 26 October 2010

Ron Mueck Exhibition!


What is art? This is a question all of us at Springston School are trying to answer, so we have set out on a quest to answer it. To start our quest students had to get involved with art themselves. This meant a few lucky pupils got to go to the art gallery to see the amazing Ron Mueck exhibition.


This was an outstanding opportunity for the students as the exhibition was only to be set up and seen in three cities across the world. The exhibition was a series of very realistic human sculptures hand made by Ron himself. Many of the sculptures were people evolved in Ron’s life like his dad, wife, daughter or friends but some were just big moments in life.


As well as getting to view the great artwork the students even got to create there own facial expressions using clay. All together this was a fantastic opportunity with all of the students enjoying themselves while learning heaps.


By Courtney J. (Yr 7) and Georgia W. (Yr 8)

Court Theatre Drama

On Tuesday 26 October our art activity was Court Theatre Drama. Our instructor was Emma and she was pretty awesome. Emma works with the Court Theatre Jesters and does productions every Friday and Saturday nights. She used to work on 'What Now' as the character 'Red', the letterbox.

We started off with the game 'Zip' and then progressed onto something to improve our eye contact and memory. We played 'One Word', 'Yes Let's' and 'Experts'.

Our favourite game was 'One Word.' This game is when we get into pairs then one of the pair starts the conversation off by using an active word. There is no script, no preparation, you just have to go with the flow. This is called improvising.

Every one enjoyed their time and we hope for Emma to come back soon.
Thanks Emma!!!

Friday, 22 October 2010

Is it Art? What do you think?

http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/2008/03/spotted_inside_city_hall.php

Sorry we have gone missing for a few weeks but we have been rather busy getting into our new inquiry and 'Letting our Imagination run Wild'.

We have started by looking at lots of different types of art and wondering what makes something art.

What type of Art do you like?