Workshops at the Art Pavilion for schools

London Metropolitan University - Illustration workshop with Emily Evans, Senior Lecturer and lecturer on the Graphic Design BA (Hons) and Illustration and Animation BA (Hons)

Process: collage/print

The workshop will explore visual communication observing, recording and visualizing the stories of our culture and society. This will encourage personal and imaginative outcomes.

London Met Interior Design workshop - Constructing the essence of a brand

Jeanette Harris, senior lecturer, and Suzanne Smeeth-Poaros lecturer in Interior Design BA (Hons) introduced students to the interior design courses at London Metropolitan University through a sculptural window display project.

Process: 3-D/collage/colour/light

Students were introduced to an Interior Design brief and how to explore ideas using 3-D collage. They discovered how form, structure, colour, materials and light can create a sculptural window display for Selfridges, representing one of 3 fashion designers.

Fine Art workshop - (Prince's Foundation) students explored new and exciting forms of photographic collage.

Process: Archival imagery/negatives/collage/slides/projection

Working with archival imagery from the NASA archives, students explored collage techniques on a miniature scale, by making our own 35mm negatives and then enlarging these using a traditional slide projector. This workshop gave students the opportunity to explore film collage techniques and the relationship between photography and forms of storytelling.

Textiles workshop with Jill Kennedy-McNeill lead tutor at the Prince's Foundation - Students explored Applique and digital embroidery stitch techniques to create a mini envelope purse.

Process: Applique and digital embroidery stitch on fabric

Students were introduced to the fashion and textiles course at the Prince's Foundation. They were then introduced to the basic functionality of the sewing machine and various fabrics and textile techniques. Students were guided on how to set up and operate a sewing machine and shown how to applique and explore digital embroidery stitch. Students created a mini envelope purse which they customised and constructed over the duration of the session.

Students were introduced to career progression in Industry and emphasised learning outcomes that are transferable to other disciplines.

Drawing and Styling for Fashion workshop with Berni Yates - University of the Arts and Sarbjit Natt - A Team Arts Education

Process: Styling and Drawing

Students were introduced to the leading BA Fashion Course in the world at UAL. They explored styling garments and experimented with a range of drawing styles learning how the infamous fashion students work at the University.

Exhibition tour of the Rachel Jones exhibition and a drawing workshop activity exploring the body, emotion and colour.

Jones develops her chosen materials of oil pastels and oil sticks to produce a new body of paintings on canvas and paper. Her exhibtion say cheeeeese builds on Jones’ previous work, repeating the motif of obscured teeth and the orifices that contain them. Only partially legible, these forms signal both a multitude of symbolic and literal entry points to the interior self. Jones’ new works extend the use of this now-familiar motif to incorporate bold, hand-drawn lines over dense blocks of colour. Jones’ oil pastel on canvas and paper works often repeat symbols, colours and textures.

Process: Drawing methods using oil pastels, oil bars and paint sticks

Students were introduced to her processes and techniques examining ways of expressing that which can be seen and sensed rather than uttered. They listened to music as she would in her studio to help guide the mark making techniques and exploration of colour through emotional responses.