Author: 0009676

Dudley-college-artsfest-music-students

Level 3 Music PerformanceLevel 3 Music Performance

LEVEL 3 MUSIC PERFORMANCE

Generation Rewind

2020 has been a strange year where many things have been cancelled; concerts, music events and valuable times that we would have spent with our family and friends. As a result, the Arts have been affected. As music students, due to Covid-19, we have been unable to perform any gigs this year. So, we wanted to work through 2021 with a bang! 

We organised and put on a Live Streamed Music Performance where the set list represented life as a teen in Britain. The good times, the bad times and the little bits in between. The entire repertoire contains songs that were in the charts in Britain and were songs popular amongst teenagers. The gig took place on Wednesday 28th April, and we named the event ‘Generation Rewind’.  

We decided to raise money for a local charity called ‘Make Some Noise’ which is based in the West Midlands as their mission objective is to inspire young people and be a catalyst for positive change. They were established in 2001 and have been local communities ever since. In order to raise money for them, we created a Go Fund Me page that was linked to the live stream and all our social media posts to ensure that we raise as much money as possible for this cause. We had over 400 viewers on the night and raised £400 pound for the charity. We hope you’ll enjoy this short from the show as much as the audience did.

Read Full Read Full

Level 3 ActingLevel 3 Acting

LEVEL 3 ACTING

Witches Can’t Be Burned

Year 1 Acting & Level 2 Performing Arts

Witches Can’t Be Burned was entered into the NT Connection drama awards and won! The recognition of our work is a fabulous reward to all involved and we are incredibly excited about working with The National to show our work at its very best.  Here are some snippets of our show recently performed as a live broadcast.

It’s difficult to express how brilliant NT Connections is.  It has become a fundamental part of my students’ educational experience. They learn and grow so much through this process that goes beyond their college and their course.  Participation in Connections gives them a taste of what it means to work in this industry – the mind-set and dedication required to produce work of the highest standard possible.

Andrew Wilson – Group Leader

Connections is a really great opportunity that I’m really grateful to be a part of. We have all thrown ourselves into this and it really helps people come together and work together to create something we’re all proud of. The chance were given is amazing and I hope connections can be something that continues for other young people to experience

Vickie Davies-Turley – Student

Read Full Read Full

Level 2 MusicLevel 2 Music

LEVEL 2 MUSIC

Lazarus Radio Broadcast

Students were given a brief that they had to create a radio broadcast celebrating the work of artists who have passed away in the last 10 years, resurrecting them for future generations. They were allowed to choose their own bands/groups and their own approach. Some chose to perform covers as a tribute act, others wrote or produced original material inspired by their chosen artist. 

Lazarus

BTEC Level 2 Diploma in Music Industry Skills 20/21 

 

Tracklisting

0:00-1:38 – Track 1

Melody-Angel Ellis – original production inspired by XXX Tentacion 

1:42-3:51 – Track 2

Kaci Richards (Vocals), Ryan O’Neill (Guitar),
Shay McGinn (Bass) Sydney Griffin (Drums) – cover of Back In Black by AC/DC 

3:51-6:37 – Track 3

Dmitrie Detheridge (Vocals), Rebecca Green (Vocals), Caleb Larbi (Piano), Marshall Littlewood-Nash (Drums) – cover of Goodbyes by Post-Malone ft Young Thug

6:37-9:55 – Track 4

Aurora Murphy (Guitar), Tom Smith (Bass), Emily Foster (Keys), Jakub Jankowski (Drums) – cover of What I’ve Done by Linkin Park 

9:55-13:14 – Track 5

 Dmitrie Detheridge (Vocals), Tyrese Morris (Vocals) – cover of Roley by Cadet

13:15-17:09 – Track 6

Kaci Richards (Vocals), Ryan O’Neill (Guitar), Shay McGinn (Bass) Sydney Griffin (Drums) – cover of Zombie by The Cranberries 

17:10-20:04 – Track 7

Aurora Murphy (Guitar), Tom Smith (Bass), Emily Foster (Keys), Jakub Jankowski (Drums) – cover of Faint by Linkin Park 

20:04-23:48 – Track 8

Rebecca Green (Vocals), Tyrese Morris (Vocals), Caleb Larbi (Keys and production), Marshall Littlewood-Nash (Drums) – cover of Advice by Cadet x Deno 

23:48-26:41 – Track 9

Kate Harper (Vocals), Chloe Lowther (Guitar) – original composition inspired by Amy Winehouse 

Read Full Read Full

Level 1 Art and DesignLevel 1 Art and Design

LEVEL 1 ART AND DESIGN

The course is designed to be an introduction to the world of art and design. Students have the opportunity to learn a wide variety of skills that will include drawing, painting, mixed media, printmaking, ceramics and sculpture. 

Through these activities, they will learn perhaps the most important skill of all – how to see and respond to the visual world. Research using the internet and library resources will form part of the learning programme. Students will be looking at the work of other artists to inform and inspire their own work.

They will also have the opportunity to exhibit their work in a public exhibition at the end of the year. In addition to the practical work in the studio, students will go on trips and visits that directly relate to the projects they will be doing. Alongside learning creative skills, students will also develop more academic skills in English and maths

Here is some of the fantastic work the learners have produced over what has been a difficult and disruptive year.

Leah Carless (Tutor for Level 1 Art & Design)

Ashani Allen

Roberto Alex Lozneanu Bogatu

Nicky Cartwright

Bradley Colley

Maria Cuestas

Thomas Evans

Isabel Glynn

Hassan Jahangir

Adam Shaw

Melissa Snook

Ben Stanway

Hollie Willinger

Read Full Read Full

HND Art and DesignHND Art and Design

HND ART AND DESIGN

Maggie Evans

Previous Education: Level 3 Extended diploma Art & Design
Destination: HND Art Practice

Sensory Rooms 

I was influence by Edward Walker’s lava lamps and initially of the “Psychedelic Movement” and the “Love Generation”. Lava lamps came about in the 60’s and It was the perfect light for modern times, 

Walker declared: “If you buy my lamp, you won’t need to buy drugs because the lava lamps are meant to calm and relax people.

This video still screen shot is part of a project which was based on the role of technology in art & design. This is my FMP project, and the work is an illustration of projection utilising handmade lava lamps. The intentions here were to communicate sensory room experiences as an artist medium, for an audience with and without complex health needs, becoming a ubiquitous creative space that promotes the reduction of stress and anxiety. A safe environment where audience become participants, through the physicality of simply being present, interacting through simple movements.

Grace Gajsler

Previous Education: The Academy of Kidderminster
Destination: University of Wolverhampton

Collaboration and Technology 

The themes of my project are connections via the internet and creative remixes. Art viewers and critics have their own interpretations of artworks based on their experiences, ideas and tastes, and I wanted to explore my peers’ ideas and interpretations by creating remixes of original pieces I sent to them. This project is a collaboration of ideas from a variety of artists of different media and specialisms with the outcome of a diverse collection of work, and a collaboration between close friends through a personal and public digital connection.

Barbara Miller

One is Too Many

One is Too Many is an installation rooted in a body language crisis created by the use of filter apps that can manipulate and enhance an image to enable the ‘perfect appearance’. For many, this allows a filtered version of reality, one that is hard to find flaws in and that enables them to hide their own insecurities and imagined flaws. The installation is my response to bring about awareness to this practise and its links to a mental health illness known as ‘face and body dysmorphia’. The individuals that have this illness see a distorted image of themselves when looking in the mirror. This illness can lead to depression, self – harm and even suicide in young women. I found this evidence shocking and it was this that gave me the impetus to produce this artwork. 

The installation was inspired by Tracey Emin’s ‘My Bed’ and Elaine Shemilt’s “Doppelganger. Two artists that challenge socio-political and feminist issues as part of their practise. 

My intention is to confront the viewer and challenge this practise that pressurizes young women to conform to society’s obsession with beauty. 

The main brief for this project was that it should be conceptual, where the idea involved takes precedence over the aesthetics of the final piece.

One of the principles of conceptual art is to break away from consumerism and capitalism and to achieve this I used paper in all my experiments; Paper is a low grade and throwaway material. My experiments involved trying various drawing techniques, making face masks and distorting images to suggest human fragility.  It was through this process of experimentation that ideas emerged. 

My aim through my installation is to invite the viewer to interact by questioning, connecting and interpreting and to evoke feelings about gender inequality and to realise that the true cost of beauty is not through money but through the cost of women’s mental wellbeing.

Steve Sheasby

Previous Education: Foundation Certificate in Art and Design
Destination: Independent practice

Word Room

“Word room” is a concept that is intended to reflect many individuals’ state of mind given the current worldwide Coronavirus pandemic.

Never in living memory has our society faced such a threat to our personal freedoms and mental well – being, I therefore wanted to create a concept that captured some of these anxieties.

So, I started to think of our living spaces and how we felt about them pre – pandemic, i.e., places of refuge of safety and places where we could relax and rest.   

Our living spaces are almost like the spaces that occupy our heads, a private space where our true self exists.

So how has the pandemic affected our true self spaces?

It has made us fearful of acting in the ways in which we are so used to in today’s society, it has threatened our very mortality, and it has filled our heads with words that would have meant nothing in the past. Words that now fill us with caution, distrust, and fear.

Our worlds have been forcibly shrunk to the spaces in which we live.

It is the 4 walls of reality.

Read Full Read Full