Week 2: Statues and Sculpture

This week we're going to be looking at statues and sculpture! Statues are the form of public art that we're probably most familiar with, and one of the oldest forms. In the videos below, we'll look at some more traditional forms of statues and in our groups this week we'll look at ways that contemporary artists have looked at the idea of the statue and played with it to come up with interesting and innovative sculptures. Our activity for this week will involve making a sculpture from air-dried clay (which you should have received in your art packs).

In the video below (5 minutes), Marga introduces some questions for us to think about when looking at statues.

You can download the transcript of this video below:

The question of how realistic statues should be is a very interesting one and one that Matthew Jarron, Curator at the University of Dundee, discusses further in this video (3 minutes):

Hope you are ready to have some fun with clay! This week's activity is all about making animal reliefs. Dani, a current student at Edinburgh College of Art, shows us how work with clay and make our animals in the video below. Please read pages 14 -18 of the Arts Award Bronze log book and fill them in as you complete your activity. (The log book is on the Teams site if you need a digital version!) Post the pictures of your completed work in your group's channel so we can all see them and if you have any questions, don't hesitate to let us know!

Next week, we'll have our first talk by Matthew Jarron, Curator at University of Dundee Museums. Matthew will tell us about the history of public art in Dundee - as you've already seen from our first session, Dundee is very rich in public art compared to many other places and Matthew will explain to us why this is.

The talk will take place on Friday 19th of February at 3pm. We will post the link to the Teams meeting in the Teams site before hand.