Happy Christmas.

Have a great, well deserved holiday. Drink mulled wine, eat mince pies and soak up a festive film or two...its not really Christmas if you haven't watched Elf!
You have done a great job this term and now need to focus on your specialism.
Hopefully when you return you will have a few ideas after completing your materials task off you brief.
I look forward to seeing your work-I am sure it will be a cracker!
Embrace the inner happy cat.

 

Logo competition.

After our discussion about the logo competition please find the brief if you want to look at this again. I would go for more neutral and cool colours as their website is full of these especially blue/green.
Deadline to e-mail these to me is January 5th so I can collate and get these submitted by 6th January.
Don't forget the winner receives £200.





Dear Students ,
Thank you for participating in this end of year challenge !  I have chosen you because I know ASFC, I know the staff in the art department and I know what a talented group of individuals you are.
I have just taken over as Director of Development of the IOA and have to have a UK entry for a new logo meeting we are holding in January. We are giving the organisation a face lift and making it more relevant. I have attached a brief outlining this with a makeshift logo I concocted with no artistic flair or proper thought so please ignore it !!  The current logo is at the top of this page and I hate it . It is very outdated and too fussy and quite frankly, uninspiring to anyone wanting to join the organisation.
The prize for winning  and being the UK entry is £200. 
If your design is then chosen by the international panel we will go on and use it in our communications ( presentations, website, business cards etc ) . We will also feature you as the international winning logo creator in a piece for the online newsletter or website for the world to see. This will look great on any Uni or job applications !!
The closing date for entries is January 6th and I will let the lucky person know before the end of  January.  If there is only one of you who enters but I don’t think it is up to scratch to put before the panel then I reserve the right to not choose that one entry so please take your entry seriously,  look at all the key points mentioned in the briefing note , put down the mince pies and egg-nog and design something fantastic.
Many thanks for participating.
Happy Holidays ! 
Elaine

Photography competition.

What a great opportunity to show off your skills.
Deadline for entries is January 6th.....get snapping.
Good luck.

Our annual photography competition is now open for entries View this email in your browser

Good morning Jo, Our annual FE Week and Me photography competition is back and once again FE Week has teamed up with NCFE to hunt for stunning pictures that depict learning in the FE and skills sector, through the eyes of students. In 2016,  after over 700 submissions, FE Week and competition sponsors NCFE, whittled down the photography students’ entries to the competition down to 10 finalists.  Coleg Cambria student Libby Gillard was the winner of the photography student category in 2016.   Mid-Kent College learner Bailey McElligott was the winner of the non-photography student category.  You can view last year’s finalists by downloading our finalists PDF – click here This year there are two categories of entry: photography student and non-photography student. This year’s prizes will consist of: Category – Photography student – Nikon D5500  and work shadowing placement with a professional photographer. Category – Non-photography student – Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ60 The deadline for the annual FE Week and Me student photography competition, in partnership with NCFE  is Jan 6, 2017 at 17:00. How to enter... Brief: entrant’s photos need to portray learning in the FE and skills sector, through the eyes of students.. Photos can be taken on any type of digital photography kit. It is as simple as that! To enter the competition students need to email their entry along with no more than a 100 word description of their photo and why they’ve chosen this shot to feweekandme@feweek.co.uk no later than January 6, 2017. Entries received later than this date will not be reviewed or considered for short listing. Entrants need to provide the following information  when submitting their photo. Any entries with missing details will not be considered. Name Category entering: photography student or non-photography student Course details Name of College or Learning provider Email address Mobile telephone number Photo description (100 words max.) Shortlisted entries will be announced on January 20 2017. Online voting will commence on January 20 2017 - photography student category.   Voting will close at 17:00 on February 1 2017. The winner will be announced on February 3 2017

Blackpool

Fantastic fun had by all on the art residential trip this week.

The sun came out and we had a fantastic time visiting illuminasia and Grundy art gallery, alongside some fab phography and light trails.

we almost didnt want to come home.

Click below for the full video of our trip.

Blackpool video.

Vintage News box article.

This amazing article shows clearly that sculptures can work well small scale as well as large scale. Amazing idea which links well with Mini structures.



Toronto-based artist Talwst, using unexpected but effective media, has created fascinating series of miniature historic dioramas inside of vintage ring boxes. The dioramas depict a wide assemblage of scenes from various historical periods.

Link to article.

Get entering!

Look at this fantastic competition. Get your entries in to me by Thursday lunch and I will send them all together. It could be a photograph you have taken in college and not just of the college.
Good luck and happy snapping.

AoC Student Photographer of the Year Competition 2016

Winner of 2015 competition, Alice Armfield, Isle of Wight College

Do you have a keen eye for photography?  If so, then enter AoC’s Student Photographer of the Year competition.
This year’s theme is ‘How colleges change lives’.
Show how much this means to you so we can see your expression and emotion in the photograph.  Do this through your use of composition, techniques, light and colour, direction of light, depth of field or leading lines.
The competition is open to all AoC member college photography students.
The prizes to be won this year are:
1^st Prize – SLR camera
2^nd Prize - £200
3^rd Prize - £100
Closing date:  EXTENDED to Friday 14 October 2016
Finalists will be notified shortly after the closing date
Judging
The competition will be judged by Michael Pritchard, Director General of Royal Photographic Society. He will pick the winner and two runners up. The finalists will be chosen based on the level of creativity and the ability to demonstrate this year's theme.

The Imperial War Museum & Lowry art gallery.

Great day, great inspiration and great fun....just great!

First of all we looked to the past for inspiration.

Saw some tanks....which pleased Alex

Of course Chris got in on the photo action!

And then we looked towards art of the future, combining the latest scientific techniques to create interactive art pieces.

We visited a working artists studio...

We had a fun filled, enriching day.

Watch our video......

https://quik.gopro.com/v/pDW2CtyRAK/

Foundation day out!

Must see exhibition at The Lowry art gallery.

#asfc art science

A fantastic exhibition is currently at The Lowry combining art and science.

Project Nimbus is a collaboration between artists, scientists & makers.

Dave Lynch takes art and science to create some exquisite individual pieces. 

Primarily a neuroscientist he takes inspiration from how the brain works. 

Very interested in movement he has taken inspiration from great artists of the past such as Muybridge, who also had a scientific approach to his work.

We especially enjoyed The frozen music collection, using viewers brainwaves to create the piece itself.

The exhibition also explores digital art as a medium. Capturing digital moving image to record the changes in light waves using glass as a magnifier.

And of course we visited The Lowry exhibition highlighting his life and work. 

Although we really did get inspiration from Dave Lynch.

Here are a few photographs of what our brain waves looked like.

The exhibition is at The Lowry all month and Dave Lynch is working in the exhibition space if you have any questions. We really found out what inspired him and his extraordinary work. 

Unit 2 Mini Sculptures.

After producing an amazing group sculpture this week, you should be ready for an individual challenge!
Next week we are working individually to produce something much smaller...................
For those of you who wanted to get ahead with next weeks research on Joseph Cornell, here is next weeks brief for your 2 week project.

Unit 2 Mini structures.



This links well with the curiosities of the past, linking to Object trouve...what can you use to create excitement in your individual pieces? Start collect small objects to display alongside making some of your own!

Unit 1 brief.

Unit 1 Brief- Megastructures

Follow the Mega structures link above for an extra copy of your brief.




and if you want to double check you have everything for assessment next week, see the following checklist.
Unit 1 checklist.

What a busy start to the year!

Welcome 2016-17 Foundation course, new students.

This week sees the start of Mega structures brief. Great ideas, inspiring designs and development into a final piece showing consumerism in today's society and linking with arte pouvre.

To see the students amazing progress, check out the video on the link below.

https://quik.gopro.com/v/pos8AIr20g/

And for a sneaky peep at some of the photographs of the progress check these out before the unveiling of the final piece next week.

And after all that excitement during the week, all students have started some work experience this weekend at the Buy Art Fair Manchester.

Where work is being displayed by a member of our teaching staff James Chadderton.

Good luck guys, have fun, work hard and connect with other artists.

I'm looking forward to hearing all about it next week.

Art Foundation exhibition.

You are all invited to the public exhibition of the amazing work Foundation (and A-level) have produced this year.
The public view is Monday 27th June from 5pm-7pm at Ashton sixth Form College
We look forward to seeing you.

Here is our progress so far, from classroom to exhibition space.

https://quik.gopro.com/v/Hv0YUIH40v/

Art Foundation deadline.

The exhibition is finally up and deadline is tomorrow at 12.55.
 You have all done an amazing job.
Thank you for all your hard work and dedication this year.....you have been a pleasure to teach!

Developing well....

Some excellent development of this years MFP pieces, looking forward to final piece deadline this Friday.

The studio should be busy this week!

Photography piece about the complexities of life with a visual empairment.

Body adornment pieces inspired by body enhancements and the world of dance  developing further into more complex installations for final exhibition.

Some large scale ceramic sculpture based upon structure and endangered animals.

Stitching into objects in a contemporary manner.

The final pieces are looking varied and interesting. The countdown begins until completion.....4 days!