Y6 Great Art Quest
DAY 1
The Great Art Quest, the aim of which is to develop pupils’ understanding and responses to the works of art they see, is well and truly up and running.
The first stage of Year 6’s great art quest began with a visit to the Barbara Hepworth Museum, led by Craig Johnson our resident storyteller for the project. After learning about the atmospheric studio and building where Barbara Hepworth lived, worked and died, we were given the chance to become Hepworth experts ourselves. Exploring the garden and its sculptures, we were set the task of renaming the artworks with titles which had been inspired by our own experiences, thoughts and ideas. After sharing our mysterious and often humorous ideas, Craig led us to a group of sculptures which fired up our imagination enabling us to create a collection of weird and wonderful stories based on the sculptural forms before us.
Following the museum visit each group embarked on a St Ives town trail which led us to the Malakoff, the church, the Guildhall and the library all of which hold the secret treasure of striking Hepworth sculptures. Accompanied by Vicky Wiltshire our artist for the project, we learned about Barbara’s techniques and her inspirations. We were able to touch the sculptures and feel for the very fingerprints that Hepworth left when sculpting her works of art. The Church held a poignant moment of reflection as we learned of Hepworth’s loss of her son and how she made the stunning Mother and child sculpture in remembrance of him especially for the church in St Ives.
DAY 2
Day two saw us learning in school with Craig with this time a focus on poetry. Drawing on our ideas from our previous day’s visit we generated words and phrases about particular Hepworth works and used them as a starting point for our poems. We worked hard to give the sculptures a character with feelings, using our literacy skills to create what we hope are some striking verses.
DAY 3
Who would have thought just cling film and cellotape could make such eye-catching sculptures? On day 3 we were visited by Vicky, who demonstrated how to wrap any interestingly shaped object with clingfilm and then cellotape to create Hepworth inspired sculptures. We had fun cellotaping barbies, roller skates, bottles, bananas……and the challenge was stepped up by attempting to introduce inverted shapes into our works of art. Those that used Barabara Hepworth’s ideas along with their own imagination produced some striking results and the magnificant end products were captured in a sculpture photo shoot to be shown at the Tate.
Thank you for taking us to the museum!
I enjoyed making our sculptures and visiting the museum when we were with Craig in the garden with all the inspiring works.
It was really hard making the sculptures but I really enjoyed the whole thing, especially making up the stories with Craig.
I can’t wait to see our art work in the Tate!!!!!!!!!!!!
i loved doing our stories with the stones it was fun !
Looks like great fun was had by all! My daughter continued Day 3 that evening by making a cling film and cello tape sculpture of my hand much to the amusement of the rest of the family!
I think that the great art quest is a good way to develop our skills.
This is amazing what year 6 have done. I wish I could do this! It looks so exciting!
I just loved making our sculptures with Craig. One of my sculptures was this cube with a cone inside it pointing down. My second one was my old clock and I used my fingers to do the horns. I can’t wait until I go down to the gallery to see some of our art work.
All of these pictures look very interesting although it looks very very hard to do. I hear that all your art is going in the Tate gallery
I loved it and I’m going to make one at home
I really enjoyed story telling with Craig and I think all of our sculptures were really good.
It was really fun making our sculptures but I also really loved going to the museum with the stories and not forgeting the town trail I also can’t wait intil our work goes into the tate gallery I really can’t belive it. I have really enjoyed the great art quest it has been really exciting!.