Year 8 create Giacometti sculptures
Mr Sherrington gives his account on a recent project from Year 8, which explores life sculptures inspired by the world renowed artist Alberto Giacometti:
After drawing each other from life, Year 8 pupils set about making wire figures which they later covered with plaster.
Using metallic paint the pupils have created the illusion of bronze sculptures very similar to the original by Giacometti himself.
Mrs Morris has been inspirational in her teaching and managed to help the pupils create some magical and imaginative work.
All the pupils seemed to have enjoyed the chance to get making and there is a real creative, active buzz around the Art department and a genuine desire make the figures as good as possible.
Alberto Giacometti was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was born in the canton Graubünden's southerly alpine valley Val Bregaglia, as the eldest of four children to Giovanni Giacometti, a well-known post-Impressionist painter.