MV16 Arts End of Year exhibition - Time to celebrate the student's hard work.

 

Thursday 26^th June saw MV16 celebrate the hard work and creativity of the students in the Arts Faculty.  The work on display was representative of work produced by students throughout the year from the following AS and A’ level courses: Art & Design, Graphics & Illustration, Fashion & Textiles, Photography and Design Technology.  The show is a snap shot of each student’s great potential; the work is diverse and reflects the creative ambition of each student that has developed over the duration of their courses.  Behind each piece of work is a wealth of research, development and experimentation.  This work is a reflection of the student’s determination, practice, patience and above all skill. 

 

The Arts students have produced dynamic and exciting work that has explored a range of media resulting in outcomes to be proud of.  Many students have studied on a range of the practical arts courses building a creative portfolio preparing them for the next stage in their lives.  They have been encouraged to explore and experiment using a wide range of Art & Design media and techniques. 

The Arts at Melton Vale Post 16 are consistently led by innovative solutions.  We aim to nurture the most innovative students in Leicestershire and help support them to realise their creative aspirations. 

 

The Arts staff are tremendously proud of each students personal achievements.  This year once again, many students have achieved 100% in their final assessments, this is a result of their hard work, creative talent and enthusiasm.  Our aim at MV16 is to equip our students with a wide range of exciting and contemporary based skills in order for them to progress confidently to prestigious H.E institutions. Over 50% of our students are progressing onto Arts related degree courses this year, and additionally a healthy number of students are going on to Arts Foundation courses locally.

 

I hope you enjoy looking at the images below - if you have any questions regarding how things have been made etc. please ask.

 

 

 

 

 

 Sketchbooks are a fundamental underpinning of all work on display, they become a true 'labour of love' for the students.  This is the one focus of interest that we place right at the beginning of the students AS studies, we literally train them to use them to record, reflect, experiment, document etc. their entire creative journey.  The Textile sketchbooks generally have a 'bulky' feel to them & only when they are bulging with samples, fashion illustrations etc. do the student's feel happy.

 

 

The students work very hard on their layouts, colour palettes, samples, fashion illustrations (this one is a wizard at using magazine collage to underlay her fashion illustrations - exquisite), and not to forget their annotations too.

 

 

Sampling is vital to the students growth as a practitioner, but also for their confidence in expanding their wealth of skills & techniques.  Without an array of skills they can't develop their ideas fully.  So the documentation of these skills & techniques is vital for their studies, but also for them to reference & reflect upon in the future.

 

 

 

These two bodices were created as a direct result of research into architectural details by two different A' Level Textile students of mine - they have used a wide variety of manipulation & surface driven skills to successfully realise their design ideas.  Each panel of the bodice is a sumptuous riot of textile techniques (all developed & documented in the student's sketchbooks). Both of these students are progressing onto Textile related degree courses, both obtaining their first choice as a result of direct entry - I am so proud of their achievements & certainly feel they are ones to watch in the future.

My student above was fascinated by Contour Design (this has been very popular this year & I am now writing into my SOW a little mini project about Contour Design for my A' level Textile students - unit 3).  The beautiful underwear was inspired by the Dolce & Gabbana 'Byzantine Mosaic' range (who wasn't inspired by this amazing range - I certainly was!!).  This student was quite tempted to apply for Contour Design, but has actually successfully secured herself a place on a Fashion Communication & Promotion degree course, which will enable her to combine her love of Fashion & English. 





 

 

My student below was inspired by Rocco architectural fine details, which were extracted and manipulated into free machine stitch suitable for a 'bra-let design'.  This student is progressing onto an Arts Foundation course and then intends upon applying to a Contour Design degree course.

 





 

It's not all stitch & textiles, my student above produced this amazingly detailed painting based from a man that frequents a local bar where she has a part time job.  The painting is large scale, approximately twice A0 in size, and obviously took her weeks to complete - it's been painted straight onto a sheet of canvas (that was prepared first).  Her whole unit of work explored the fragility of people, both young and old - this can be seen in the studies of elderly people in her sketchbook.  She has chosen to engage in portrait based painting throughout both her AS & A2 units of study.

My AS student on the right has chosen to create quite a
disturbing self-portrait, enhanced with the use of red paint & areas that are highly detailed contrasting with areas of almost under painted, vague patches.




To the left is another painting by one of my AS Art & Design students - this is from Unit 1 - it's a truly beautiful painting when seen first-hand - the detail is breath-taking & the suitableness of the chosen colour palette, quite exquisite.


To the right is another
painting by one of my AS Art & Design students - once again from Unit 1 - she wanted to create a portrait that was painted in a more graphical style, the paint resembles the contour that you might find on a geographical map - it's stunning first-hand, as there are many more contour rings than you can see here.

To the left you can see a student who wanted to paint on an alternative surface & so chose clear PVC - which is a great surface to paint directly onto & as you can see gives some wonderful results.

We truly wish all of our Arts students the very best of luck for their results in August 2014 & of course for their creative careers ahead of them!!

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