The Art Department at Hautlieu

Unit 1 Art Handbook – AS and IB Academic year 2019-20

Title: LIBERATION

Study Time: 4 hours studio practice/5 hours’ Self-directed study a week.

16 week Liberation including 7 weeks skills audit/ 63 hours TOTAL NUMBER OF HOURS

128

First Assessment: SUMMER TASK 8TH SEPTEMBER 2019

WHAT MAKES US HUMAN WORKSHOP AT LA HOUGUE BIE 19TH TO 20TH SEPTEMBER

1919

MONDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER AUTUMN ASSESSEMNT 2019

25TH TO 26TH NOVEMBER AS CONTROLLED CONDITIONS 10 HOURS 2019

13TH DECEMBER Liberation assessment 2019

6TH JANUARY AS EXAM PAPER GIVEN OUT 2020

27TH AND 28TH APRIL FINAL EXAM 2020

Tutors : Mr Allen, Mrs Rutter and Miss Koester

Brief

Hautlieu Art Department’s project next year explores the title Liberation. There are many links to Island life, the obvious one being the occupation during World War 2. One of the themes we want you to think about is the freedom from limitations and thought to the hundred-year anniversary of women getting the vote in Jersey. Throughout the year, we will link art projects to the rich history of women in Jersey society from smuggling, witch trials, Claude Cahun, to women in politics. This exploration of the votes for women challenges us to ask the question what is male? what is female? What is masculine? What is feminine? We will have to consider issues of gender, identity and of understanding of the self, which ultimately explores what makes us human. You will be challenged to think about how we define or categorise female, male, feminine or masculine. It is important we do not define different as the other. You will be joining philosophy students for a two-day intensive workshop with the artists Karen Le Roy Harris and Miriam Sedacca at La Hougue Bie. Karen and Miriam are working on a parallel project looking at women’s roles in the mill industry in London, which they are hoping to produce a body of work for in the Mill in St. Peter’s valley. The use of La Hougue Bie is deliberate. Olga Finch, Jersey Heritage’s Archaeologist, will give you scientific and anthropological evidence for what life was like in Neolithic times for communities. This part of human history is the beginning of farming and the development of villages moving away from the hunter-gatherers. In this new society, were roles developed because of gender? The workshops throughout the two days will ask you to work as individuals, in small groups representing the family unit and as a whole community. Although you will not sleep on site, we will have 15 tents for studios and to produce a body of work, which will encompass many art forms. At the end of the two days, I hope you will be able to reflect on what makes us human, • What does it mean to be human? What is gender? • Is there such a thing as the self?

• Can we really ever know the other?

• Is how we interact with others what makes us human?

• is creativity an important part of what makes us human ?

Miriam works mainly in film and part of the two days will be recording documenting and reflecting on what we all learn. The two-day work shop will occur during the winter solstice and Olga will open the Long Barrow early in the morning if you want to see the light traveling down the passage grave after which they will have Neolithic breakfast that you will cook yourselves. We plan to host a big celebration event on the Friday at the end of the workshop. This a real community builder and impacts a much wider audience. Along with publicity for the two-day workshop, the site will be open to the general public. The students will be educated on the wider role of Jersey Heritage, the site of La Hougue Bie in particular. There will be a possible audience 200 plus just for the event on 20th September.

SUMMER TASK

WHAT WE WANT YOU TO DO.

1. This summer task is the starting point of a body of work based on the phrase LIBERATION that you will complete over the first term completed and assessed BY 13TH December.

2. Your starting point might be very personal but it must relate to Jersey in some way. We recommend you use a sketchbook / journal to produce this summer task.

3. Remember we are a visual language so how you put things together visually is really important. DO NOT use different coloured gell pens or felt tips to annotate you work, DO NOT use bubble writing. DO NOT put borders around things. Use black pen or pencil to explain your ideas.

SUMMER TASK LIBERATION

Complete a tree hanging artwork. These will be displayed in

the trees around the la Hougue Bie site.

You must show evidence of preparing and trying out

ideas that build up to this ‘final’ piece. You must

include in a sketchbook in whatever order is most

relevant;

1. At least ten drawings / paintings from

observation and your own photos that link to

your final idea outcome

2. Use at least five materials in your prep work

(don’t worry, not in every drawing but do not do

everything in HB pencil)

3. At least two artist references and responses that

makes your ideas better must be included

4. Complete both sides of your fabric hanging using

whatever materials you want (pen, drawing

materials, paint, stitch, spray paint etc.)

5. YOUR FABRIC HANGING MUST BE

COMPLETED IN PORTRAIT NOT

LANDSCAPE

6. Design hanging mechanism this could include a

fringe of objects

Your summer task must hit four assessment objectives

1. Development- here you must research and record your ideas and findings. This is done through artist reference, photography, drawing, quotations etc.

2. Material Experimentation- You must use materials appropriate to intentions i.e. gold paint making a sacred object, using real shells to make a sculpture based on the beach or responding to an artist’s work in the media of their practice.

3. Record- You must have a MINIMUM of ten sustained drawings from direct observation (that’s from a real thing or place or person, not copied from an artist or downloaded from the internet).

4. Present- Finally present all your findings and produce a final piece in whatever material you deem appropriate.

EXAMPLES

ARTISTS TO GET YOU STARTED (please also find your own if you wish – these are to start you off with some ideas)

CALENDAR 16 week LIBERATION BRIEF.

Thursday and Tuesday eveninings 3.30 to 5.30 Artist in residence. w

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Date ACTIVITY Assesment

AOB,s

HOMEWORKS 1 4th -6th

SEPT

Self assessment AS summer task

Begin skills Audit. Liberation putting all the summer tasks

together develop group sculpture and begin drawing

Assessment summer task

2 9th to

14TH

SEPT

Begin series of material experiments preparation for two

day workshop at Le Houguie Bie

12th Battle of Britain day

Art history lecture Raft of the Medusa

Drawing from stages of

construction produce three

pages of research in work

journal. A02, A01

Individual Action Plans

AO1/AO2

3 16TH to

20 st

SEPT

Weight of objects/ making handing objects based on the

work of Cornelia Parker

Two day workshop at le Hougue Bie 19th and 20th

September

work journal. Drawing from

stages of construction

produce three pages of

research in work journal.

AO3/AO4

4 23rd to

27th

SEPT

Complete A 1 drawings

Textile workshop with PJ

Art history lecture Gender and art

Work Journal self reflection

and self evaluation

AO1/AO3 art referances

5 30th

Sept to

4th

OCT

SKILLS AUDIT DRAWING WORKSHOP

Two week sustained drawing. INITIAL SKILLS

PROGRESS ASSESSMENT WHOLE SCHOOL

Work Journal Artist

references

AO1/AO3

6 7TH to

11 OCT

SKILLS AUDIT WORKSHOP PREPERATION FOR

ASSESSMENT

two week sustained drawing

Annotation of all

sketchbook work

AO1/AO2/AO3/AO4

7 14TH to

18th

OCT

ASSESMENT OF SKILLS AUDIT TARGET GRADES

GIVEN

Work Journal self reflection

and self evaluation

Individual Action Plans and

Feedback.

Progress File

8 21st to

25th

OCT

ASSESMENT OF SKILLS AUDIT TARGET GRADES

GIVEN SET OUT EXPECTATIONS FOR FINAL

TREASURE ISLAND ASSESSMENT 13TH DECEMBER

Individual action plans

TIME ALLOCATION SIX WEEKS SKILLS AUDIT 4 HOURS A WEEK 28 HOURS

HOMEWORK 5 HOURS A WEEK 35 HOURS (WORK JOURNAL/SKETCHBOOK)

TOTAL TIME 63 HOURS

Thursday and Tuesday eveninings 3.30 to 5.30 Artist in residence. we

ek Date ACTIVITY

Assesment

AOB,s HOMEWORKS

9 4th to

9th

NOV

IDEAS AND DEVELOPMENT TOWARDS FINAL PEICE 3 PAGES IDEAS/

DEVELOPMENT

AO1

10 11th to

15th

NOV

FINALISING IDEAS tell your teachers your

controlled conditions requirements

3 PAGES ARTIST

REFERANCE

AO2/AO4

11 18TH

to 22rd

NOV

Whole school y12 assessments

PREPARING CANVES AND BOARDS

3 PAGES MATERIAL

EXPERIMENTATION AO2

12 25th to

29th

NOV

CONTROLLED CONDITIONS 25th and 26th NOVEMBER EVALUATING FINAL IDEAS

AO1/AO4

13 2nd TO

6TH

DEC

ASSESSMENT AND FEEDBACK

ANNOTATING

SKETCHBOOK SUBJECT

SPECIFIC LAUNGUAGE

AO1/AO3/AO4

13 9TH to

13TH

DEC

COMPLETE LIBERATION ASSESSED

Year 11 controlled conditions 9th and 10 TH

December art rooms will be closed at this time.

SELF ASSESMENT

AGAINST EXAM

OBJECTIVES progress file

AO1

14 16TH

TO

20TH

DEC

HAPPY CHRISTMAS HOILDAY Brain storm ideas for unit two

Below are a few ways you could start to explore the word LIBERATION for your personal project .

All these ideas are possible from direct experience i.e. you can photograph and draw directly from something

• LANDSCAPE HOLDS SCARS AND TRACES OF LIBERATION – Record seascapes, countryside, forest or urban views in a wide range of mark making forms. In Jersey we have amazing rock faces and natural structures such as rock arches that defy gravity. Our tides are covered by the moon and gravitational forces.

• FIGURES, friend’s family HAVE MEMORIES AND OPIONS ABOUT LIBERATION – Record portraits or full figure drawings in a range of appropriate mark making depicting emotion, movement, peace, rage etc. Gravity talks about forces that pull objects or people together, you might want to look at relationships.

• ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY REFLECTS POWER AND LIBERATION– create a series of sculptures and drawings based on half built buildings, bunkers, religious buildings etc. This research can be under both Gravity headings ie physical and the value systems. Buildings can be like monuments memorials keepers of the past occupational landscape of Jersey during the Second World War. They can have visual mass or spiritual weighting

• HISTORICAL LIBERATION – Look at ancient Dolmens, religious buildings, museum artefacts and respond with sculptures and drawings. Le Hougue Bie balaned rocks taken from around the island. Balance and weight are visual important when you look at historical buildings as they were meant to be powerful places.

• OBJECTS CAN SYMBOLISE LIBERATION – Create a series of textile or pattern artworks using nature, urban or seascapes. Your own collections. Develop your own museums and archives.

GOOD LUCK WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU WITH YOUR SUMMER TASK IN SEPT