Art on display
Year 11's Appropriation display in C Block
An Appropriate Appropriation
Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them. The use of appropriation has played a significant role in the history of the arts (literary, visual, musical and performing arts). In the visual arts, to appropriate means to properly adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of human-made visual culture. Notable in this respect are the Ready-mades of Marcel Duchamp. Inherent in our understanding of appropriation is the concept that the new work decontextualizes whatever it borrows to create the new work. Year Eleven Studio Art students have taken an image from an artist that they draw inspiration from and transformed, adapted, reimagined and appropriated the work to make a new piece which reflects upon them and their theme. They go through a technique related to the artist or as a way of reimagining the original and then create their own version.
The work will be on display in “the Beugelaar” down in C Block until Tuesday May the 29th.
Wire self portraits from Year 7
In this class, we have worked on making wire self portrait sculptures. They are inspired by Alexander Calder, a famous wire sculptor of the 20th century, as well as other artists. We made these wire selfies by bending wire around the side of our faces of an A3 piece of paper which created an accurate outline of our face. We then made it into a 3D form as we made the eyes, lips, ears and hair. They look very nice and it was lots of fun to create them.
By Liam Fenech and Bill O’Hanlon
Sculptures will be displayed in C Block until 4th June then they will be relocated to the library
Art club's latest creation
Art Club have being working on a major project for almost a year now and we're nearly there!
We are creating an artwork composed of thousands of individually painted recycled bottle tops which were collected from the NHS community. We hope to unveil the work in the next few weeks, so watch this space!
Finbarr Drinan