Art including Photography

Intent:

The Rodillian Academy art department aims to create a visually stimulating environment that will inspire our students enthusiasm for art and design.

We offer a broad and varied curriculum with the goal to be both engaging and challenging to pupils of all abilities.

Our students are given the opportunity to study and create art for different purposes, from observation and imagination, to illustrate, to create a mood or atmosphere, and for emotional expression.

To ensure progress over time our students practice, re visit, and embed the key skills of recording, drawing from observation, making links with other artists, developing their own ideas, and refining their work, applying a range of materials and techniques.

In photography, pupils record through planning photoshoots and taking photographs, as well as developing technical photography skills such as lighting and composition. They refine and edit photographs using digital manipulation and mixed media techniques. They develop their own ideas with reference to other photographers and  photographic genres.

The foundation of the art curriculum is focussed on the formal elements: colour, line and texture, tone and form, shape and pattern. Short term skills building workshops are followed by increasing the time scale of our schemes of learning, so that students are able to engage in more depth. Working towards open ended project briefs that offer greater opportunity for independent creativity.

We strive to develop resilience, and an open mind set, so that our pupils are increasingly able to pursue their own lines of investigation and self-directed study.  Empowering them to create art work that realises personal and meaningful intentions.