Arts Celebration... Watch this Space!

We have used our creativity, bravery and perseverance to create our poems, plays and songs. We have practiced, practiced, practiced! We are looking forward to sharing everything we have done with you all very soon... Watch this space!

Digital Art 2019

Our Semiconductor-inspired digital installations were a hit at our recent Visual Arts Celebration.

Visitors stopped by the Kiva Theatre, gazed up towards the stars and beyond and were engulfed by surreal audiovisuals.

 

Some even dallied with the business of merchandise....

Click here for our Google Site, which features background information on our pieces of art, our inspiration and our process. 

Check out more about our learning journey - ever more relevant before the arrival of the Digital Technologies update to the New Zealand Curriculum in 2020 - on the slides below. 

He mihi nui ki a hoa/a big thank you to everyone who helped us out, appreciated our work on the night or inspired us in any way, big or small. Kia ora!

Art Celebration: Cubism Group

Thank you to everyone who came to the Visual Art Celebration. We had lots of fun creating and preparing. Here is a showcase of the Cubism art...

Matilda: We have been drawing cubism. We have experimented with many different materials and art styles. We did 3 faces, one on brown paper with pastel, one on white paper with pencil, and one on magazine paper with sharpie. We drew our faces with Indian ink, and we decorated the frames with the things we like. We did name art, we wrote our names in block letters, drew lines through them and coloured them in with pencils. We were inspired by Picasso, the famous cubism artist.

Caleb: We have been working on drawing other people from different angles. But my favourite part was my name art. I first drew diagonal straight lines. Then I drew my name, next I coloured in my name with green and blue and the background yellow and orange, redish. I used orangy-red and yellow coloured pencils and normal pencil.

Eva: I am grateful that I finished all my artwork for the art celebration, in the end the art celebration was epic and totally worth all that time and sweat. I am grateful that my art skills have got much better after the art celebration.

This is our art celebration soundtrack. We have created this to entertain you while looking at our art. This piece of music is funky like cubism art. Scan you device on this QR code. By Theo, Liam, Luc and Finley

Arts Celebration: Weds 21st Aug and Thurs 22nd Aug

Please come along to our Arts Celebration to be inspired, motivated and moved... It is called an Arts Celebration because we are Celebrating The Arts. We are yelling it! We are on the go, we are in flow, we are breathing life into ideas. The school will be a gallery. See the new Pou which welcome you into the grounds, the waka that we arrived on, the classrooms lit, festooned with the brightness of the child’s mind. This is a dance. Students have been exploring themes of identity, who we are and where we come from, our environment. The explorers, like Kupe of Te Moana Nui a Kiwa, or of the stars, this galaxy and beyond. We have been thinking about social cohesion too; how do we connect and feel connected to our community? One way to do that is to have an art exhibition; no a celebration and make sure you invite everybody to come. Tell them to put on their finest outfit and bring their friends and their friends too. Artists models for inspiration include: Miro, Banksy, Van Gogh, John Pule, Arnold Manaaki Wilson, Alexander Calder, Emily Karaka, Matisse, Picasso and Eva Rothschild. One group have been inspired by the digital art of Semiconductor, a recent exhibition at the City Gallery. Wow! And we have been making music to go with it too! To ensure the evening runs smoothly, please read the following: Bring a torch to navigate the way as the sun sets. There will be QR codes linked to children’s artwork in order to listen to music, stories and background information relating to their art. A QR reader on your cellphone and headphones will be essential! (See below.) Parents, please note that children need to be managed at all times during the course of the evening as there are delicate pieces throughout the spaces. QR Codes This year we are trying out something new. We want to give parents and whānau more information about ideas behind artworks. Some spaces will have links to the process or music that has been created by the students, some will have links to the artists that inspired our amazing finished products. A QR code looks like this: It's a machine-readable code consisting of an array of black and white squares. The QR code then links you to a website. In the case of the Arts Celebration, you will be linked to Soundcloud, our Blogs or Seesaw. Download the reader onto your phone at the App Store to be ready for the night. Parking Parking is always tricky. If possible, walk to school and make it a night out for the family. If you do need to park - please think “will the bus get through regardless of whether you parked legally or not…?!” or this could be the result!

Digital Art: Arts Celebration 2019

Inspired by the work of Semiconductor (the UK duo whose exhibition we viewed at City Gallery), a group of budding digital artists have been exploring ideas from our learning with a range of tools.

See the slideshow below for more of Semiconductor's work and our mahi for Arts Celebration preparation so far.

We have been thinking hard about planning our Art - we want to make sure we are telling a story about Earth's natural environment (te taiao) or outer space (tuarangi). 

"I might use garage band to record natural sounds like birds or wind and water rushing. I would also like to use dark and bright colours and earth tones." - Sabine M

"We think black holes are an interesting subject and are going for a more realistic touch, but we also still want it to make the black hole look like a black hole." - Avery D & Naomi K

"I will be using Silk and Giphy. Silk is a way to make art out of almost coloured light. Giphy is how you make the stop motion video." - Emelia K

"I want to film raindrops falling down onto a flower but the flower doesn't grow. When the rain stops and the sun comes out the flower starts growing rapidly." - Hunter T

"I want to use different digital art programs, and I also want to try and be as creative as i can!" - Raffy K

"The pictures will be like bright, glowing cobwebs and Silk. Wind and explosion audio will accompany my art." - Fülōp N

Here is a sneak peak of what we are creating. This tester was made from a mixture of one group's audio with another artist's visual, created on Silk.

Art Taster Day- Cubism- Visual Arts Celebration

On Friday we had an "Art Taster" day. We looked at different artist models to get inspiration for our Visual Arts Celebration. 

In one of our rotations we looked at the work of Picasso and Braque who developed Cubism. They had a huge influence on Western Art at the beginning of the 20th Century. 

Here are some of our initial thoughts about Cubism: 

Hunter R- It is like cutting things up and putting them back together.
Nye- Shatter a vase then put it together without all of pieces or instructions. Like an unfinished jigsaw
Georgia- it looks like something being reorganised
Rim- It is layers on layers
Ruby- it looks like expressing yourself in two ways. Two different feelings at the same time.
Isabella- it looks like a picture that has been taken apart then put back together.
Eva- It looks like pictures stuck into pieces then put in random places.
Joni- It is abstract art and does not matter if it looks real. It is imaginative stuff rather than copying from real life.
Naomi- It has been scrambled and does not make sense.
Lily V- Everything is mixed. There is a normal drawing then adding it with something else. It is like a professional artist mixed with a kid drawing.
Lachlan: We are making two faces. One of them is different to the other one in a different way.
Angus: It is like getting a photo of someone’s face and cutting it out and putting it in different places. It is making things look stranger than usual. 

Visual Arts Celebration - 5.30pm to 7.30pm on Wed 21 and Thurs 22 August Our annual Celebration of The Arts and Student Learning is on the horizon. Our spaces will be open to the community on Wednesday 21 and Thursday 22 August from 5.30pm to 7.00pm.  We would love to see whānau on either of the evenings to view the artworks across the school. Expect to see art in response to our inquiries over the last two terms and hear music inspired by our learning.  To ensure the evening runs smoothly, please read the following: There will be QR codes linked to children’s artwork in order to listen to music, stories and background information relating to their art. A QR reader on your cellphone and headphones will be essential! Bring a torch to navigate the way as the sun sets. Keep an eye out for further information on Class Blogs and in the Newsletter. Parking is always tricky. If possible, walk to school and make it a night out for the family. If you do need to park - please think “will the bus get through regardless of whether you parked legally or not…?!”  or this could be the result!