Finished Junk Shadow Sculptures

We finished our junk shadow sculptures in todays lesson. Some of us changed the sculptures slightly but we are happy with them now. The shadows can create a different scene than the sculpture itself, so you can see two different sculptures in one! We spoke about junk art as being new and contempory in the art world and our teacher told us about Tracey Emin who won the most famous art prize, the turner prize for assembling her bed in a gallery.

Concern Window Display

A few of us went down to the Concern store on North Main St. and put up our window display...it looks great!

Junk Shadow Art

We continued working with out Art project to create our Junk Shadow art pieces. This can also be called assemblage, which comes from the French word to assemble items together. Today we concentrated on making our piece look aethetically good itself and also on the shadow. We used the projectors and laid items on them to add scenery to our scultpures. Everyone found this an enjoyable class and we will finish them off next week.

Junk Shadow Art

Today we started a new discipline in Art called Junk Shadow Art. This means to create a sculpture out of junk or things that you find lying around the house and making a sculture of it, but concentrating also on the shadow it creates. This shadow can look completely different to the sculpture . Our teacher showed us some images by various differnt artists like Marcel Duchamp who brought a mens urinal into a gallery and called it art, to other artists like Robert Raushenburg and two artists called Tim Nobel and Sue Webster . These artists created amazing shadow scultures out of junk. They are really realistic and inspiring.

We then started our own sculptures working in two groups and using a projector to shine a light for the shadow.

Window Display

Today we set up the window display to scale in our classroom. Our teacher had market out an area with a sheet of the measurements that the window would be. We tried out different ideas of our display but eventually settled on one. We chose to use recycled materials also in our display as our theme is sustainabilty. As its Easter we though flowers sould be nice and summery . The tin cans were stuffed with shredded recycled paper. Having practised the layour we are now able to go down to the Concern store and put our display up quickly without being in the shoppers way.

We wrote a statement today that will appear in the window of the Concern shop on North Main St. It will allow us to explain to people who are passing by why we did the project and our thoughts about it.

TY CLASS

ST ALOYSIUS SCHOOL

SHARMAN CRAWFORD ST

CORK

As part of our transition year we decided on doing a project in Art class. We decided to base our project on the concept of up cycling, which is using old clothes to create new fashionable outfits. This is a great concept as not only is it a good idea to save some money, but it is an individual, eco friendly concept.

Up cycling is all about sustainability, an idea that although many designers are embracing, large corporations are not. This is very important as the fashion industry generates an extraordinary amount of waste and needs to become more eco-friendly.

The fashion industry is often regarded as a really glitzy and glamorous business and the general pubic are often unaware of some of the ethical issues behind it, such as sweatshops where child labour issues are a big problem. The cotton crisis in Uzbekistan affects millions of people, especially school children who have to work in the cotton fields instead of going to school. We recommend up-cycling to everyone as not only is it fun and enjoyable, but it is making an effort to fight a wrong that can be easy to ignore.

Window Display Design

Today we learnt about window display. We will be displaying our upcycled work in the window of the Concern Charity shop in North Main St, Cork. We were shown lots of images by our teacher of different shop windows from around the world to inspire us when we are thinking od a design. These images catch the peoples attention when they are passing the shop and act like advertisements of differetn products. We will use our display to advertise our clothes and to get people to up-cycle more.