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Chesterfield College: News... |
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Chesterfield art
students ‘on message’ with national drawing campaign |
| Date: 4th November 2008 |
Art and Design students at Chesterfield College are pictured with
their creations from a weeklong programme of workshops. The spirals
represent the phrase ‘Leave Your Mark’ in Morse code. Over 180
students from the Foundation, Access and National Diploma programmes
took part in different drawing sessions throughout the week, which
link to a series of national events entitled THE BIG DRAW run by The
Campaign for Drawing.
Lecturers Kathi Chamberlain and Mark Veevers developed the
collective artpiece by joining up student work from silversmithing
and ceramic workshops into ‘dots and dashes’ to spell out the aim of
the campaign.
The team of staff in the College’s Art and Design Directorate
introduced students to experimental media over a programme of
creative sessions, aimed at fostering a wider definition of
‘drawing.’ Other activities included constructing a scale model of
Chesterfield town, which was used for still life drawing; and
physically marking film reel to make rudimentary animations.
Nineteen-year-old Ruth from Sheffield said the breadth of new
techniques she experienced over the week would influence the way she
makes art in the future.
“I’m usually more comfortable making my drawings as lifelike as
possible but in these sessions, using tools like blow torches or
drawing onto a surface as small as the film reel, you couldn’t be
precious, and end up with surprising results.”
Rob Baxter Temporary Head of Learning for Art and Design said,
“Whilst the Directorate has always had a very solid approach to
traditional visual communication, there is an emphasis within all
our Art and Design provision on experimenting with different media
as well as new technologies – exactly what the Big Draw is about.”
“This was an exciting, creative and unique event, which not only
helped to emphasise the importance of drawing within Art and Design
practice, but also redefined what drawing is or can be - and was
good fun for all the students, a quality often forgotten these
days”.
Pictured with Scraffitto tiles and heat-treated acid etchings: Ruth
Markin 19 (left) and Sam Ledger 18, who are both from Sheffield,
with Emily Fieldsend 18, from Barlborough.
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