Level 2 Art and Design 2022Level 2 Art and Design 2022
LEVEL 2 ART AND DESIGN
Rayne Allen
Ryan Ball
Bradley Colley
Erin Corbishley
Dayzel Fernandes
Megan Finch
Angle Gee
Riyad Imran
Reeda Sherazi
Caitlin Taylor
Category: Student Gallery
Level 1 Art and Design 2022Level 1 Art and Design 2022
LEVEL 1 ART AND DESIGN
Our Level 1 Art and Design learners have worked on a range of exciting projects this academic year, from Natural Forms, Portraits and Mini Monuments. Learners developed a range of skills working in ceramics, digital illustration, print making and fine art practices.
Below is a select of work from our fantastic learners. We wish them all the best as they progress to the next stage of their education here with us at Dudley College of Technology.
Jo Davis (Level 1 Art & Design Tutor)
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.
Foundation Art and DesignFoundation Art and Design
FOUNDATION ART AND DESIGN
Fashion and Textiles
Fine Art
Visual Communications
Extended Diploma Art and Design 2022: EvolveExtended Diploma Art and Design 2022: Evolve
EXTENDED DIPLOMA ART AND DESIGN: EVOLVE
The second year commenced with COVID 19 measures suggesting that we had been through the worst and that the educational landscape was returning to normal. And so, began, for many second years, the creative boot-camp of refocusing upon finding their creative pathway, exploring progression options and getting their work portfolio and exhibition ready. This was no mean feat, considering no-one could be sure what potential impact remote-learning and unprecedented assessment procedures may have had upon their social and skills development.
It would appear that the previous 18 months has made them into more curious and questioning individuals. Their return to studio has allowed them to embrace the physical space and access the materials, techniques and processes that ‘lockdown’ had denied them. Released from their confines, they had rediscovered ‘beginner’s mind’ and as the year progressed their work became more personal to them and showed us qualities we, and perhaps they, hadn’t seen before.
With so much of their educational time having been achieved through the medium of near-instantaneous digital communication and social media platforms, there has perhaps been a resurgence in the analogue. What is clear is that art students communicate most effectively through their creative practice. It is a sincere, insightful and effective language that society needs to experience again.
Martin Doyle, lecturer, visual arts
Ethan Andrews – Relentless
Anna Brookes – Hannibal
Mia Brown – Tranquility
Jess Carter – Battle Of Hunger
Ellie McCollom Cartwright – I’m Not Waving
Holly Clarke – Agnostophobia
Jasmine Crump – Alleyway
Joey Dovey – Sewer
Courtney Duncan – When Can We Be Free?
Amy Giles – Mandalas
Amy Grazier – Ritual Remedies
Mia Goodwin – It’s All Make Believe, Isn’t it?
Beatrix Graeme – River View
Alex Hadley – Abobe Board Solvent
Abbie Haynes – Gemischte Linie
Charlee Henderson – Hidden Himalayas
Alex Hill – Mermaid Cave
Elliott Kirkham – Disco Scene
Anna Kobylinska – Replaced Imagination
Macsen McConnell – Suspension
Surenjeet Moman – Encaged
Josh Morris – Observer
Lucy Morris – Perception
Caitlin Neale – Apricity
Ella O’Connor – The Woman in the Woods
Halimat Olaloye – It’s a Festival
Sandy Rae – The Mystery Of the Ash Tray
Karolina Rosiek – Life Is Like a Rubix Cube
Libby Small – Ego
George Smith – Agoraphobia
Morgan Stokes – More Than One Face
Monique Surae – Freed
LIly Mae Timperley – The Meeting of Mortality
Karis Treasure – And Life Goes On
Jaycob Young – Parasyte
A-Level Textile Design 2022A-Level Textile Design 2022
A-LEVEL TEXTILE DESIGN
A-Level textile design encourages students to work with a wide variety of skills and processes across the fields of textiles, fashion and interiors. This includes printed textiles, constructed textiles, embroidery, fashion construction, weaving and fabric manipulation. Students are introduced to different techniques which they are then able to develop into personal outcomes. This can be clearly seen within the variety of imaginative outcomes produced by the students.
Learners are encouraged to explore both historical and contemporary techniques and to support their work with research into a range of suitable artists, designers, and trends. They are prepared for industry or Higher Education and all the students from this year are continuing their education by pursuing degrees in fashion and textiles or progressing onto the art foundation diploma course.
I hope that you find the work inspiring. I am very proud of what the learners have achieved this year, particularly due to the additional challenges that Covid has presented.
Clare Buchanan, A level Textile Design Tutor
Matthew Barnett
Isla Brown
Tanvir Dhillon Kaur
A-Level Photography 2022A-Level Photography 2022
A-LEVEL PHOTOGRAPHY
A-Level Photography allows learners the opportunity to express themselves creatively while exploring ideas and concepts that are personal and meaningful. This is clearly demonstrated across the wonderful work created by this years A-Level cohort. I could not be prouder of the work and achievements made by each member of the Photography group.
Learners often choose issues within society as a means to connect their Photography to an audience. The course consistently challenges them to problem solve and improve both quality and concept as they progress. This ultimately prepares them for both industry and Higher Education.
Industry-standard software and equipment are embedded throughout the course to again support progression, exploring the Creative Cloud Adobe Suite with programs such as Photoshop and Lightroom for image editing, along with InDesign to create their stunning portfolios and project work. To allow for a deeper understanding of photography, learners are encouraged to work with both modern and traditional techniques such as darkroom and Cyanotypes. This 2-year programme builds theoretical and practical knowledge to allow our learners the creative means to express themselves through Photography.
I hope you enjoy exploring the work from this year’s Photography learners.
Simon Morris, A-Level Photography Tutor, Dudley Sixth
Matthew Barnett
Holly Dent
Laura Enright
Leoni Smith
Ellis Spencer
Courtney Westwood
A-Level Graphic Communication 2022A-Level Graphic Communication 2022
A-LEVEL GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
The role of a graphic designer is incredibly varied. You may find yourself immersed in a fantasy world while designing a set of illustrations for a book, or exploring complex data to create exciting and vibrant infographics that inform rather than confuse.
Graphic communication students at Dudley Sixth are introduced to a wide selection of processes and techniques. Using a range of both traditional and digital methods, they are encouraged to move beyond their comfort zones to produce a variety of work supported by an understanding of design theory and a developing awareness of contemporary practitioners to inform and influence their ideas.
In their second year, students begin to develop their own visual identity while becoming increasingly self-directed and independent, producing a collection of work tailored to their interests and specialisms. This could be an advertising campaign, design work for a clothing website or a set of illustrations for an album sleeve or book. Throughout the year, students will be encouraged to try new approaches and consolidate the skills they have learned in their first year to produce strong, challenging and professionally-produced designs. I believe you will see all of these qualities in this year’s second year work. I hope you enjoy it.
Chris Worley, A-Level Graphics Tutor, Dudley Sixth
Mahnoor Choudary
Daisy Ford
Gurleen Kaur
Naiya Patel
Muzaina Shah
Spencer Shuttleworth
Samoya Thomas
Taran Tumani
A-Level Fine Art 2022A-Level Fine Art 2022
A-LEVEL FINE ART
In a usual year, A-Level fine art students would have the opportunity to complete two projects over the duration of year two – one self-set, the other selected from externally-set topics released by the exam board and whose final outcome would be produced during an exam. These would normally form a 60/40 split.
This year, the students have been completing one project for the whole year. The pieces of work you see here are the results of a very difficult year, both academically and generally. The results are a real testament to my students’ resilience, willingness to engage with online learning and the sheer determination of every single one of them. They should be extremely proud of their achievements – as am I – and I wish them all the luck for the future.
Gillian Worley, A-Level Fine Art Tutor, Dudley Sixth
British Art Show 9 Wolverhampton
Isabelle Chambers
Mahnoor Choudhary
Daisy Ford
Precious Adoma Gyasi
Ellie-Mae Harvey
Alyssa Jones
Kiah Anighoro-Knight
Layla-Mae Lunn
Hannah Morris
Summer Partridge
Kiera Ryder-Richardson
Skye Sanders
Nourin Shiakh Sultan
Samoya Thomas
Mia Harvey-Vowles
Courtney Westwood
Production Arts 2022Production Arts 2022
PRODUCTION ARTS
In what has been a challenging two years, this Production Arts group have managed to produce high quality work. Ranging from creating a portfolio of disgustingly real special effects make-up, to designing make-up looks for dancers and actors. They have created costumes for a plethora of productions, often with very tight deadlines!!! Alongside costume and make-up, they have created props for live productions and for film and have helped run and organise the shows. When working from home they were able to create their own SFX materials such as home-made scar wax and fake blood!!! Overcoming obstacles and creating fine work is how this cohort shall be remembered.
Luke Orchard and Jo Davis, production arts tutors
Watch this Showcase of Work by Dudley College Production Arts Students
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Meg
Lola
Kim
Emma
Elanor
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