Visits & Visiting Artists

Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Liz Bowe
Denise Tindale
The Deep

Galleries and Visits

Students are offered the opportunity to make visits to both local and national Galleries. In recent years students have visited Leeds and York galleries, The Yorkshire Sculpture Park and The Deep. We will be returning to London this year for a short residential visit where A Level students will visit The National Gallery and Tate Modern in addition to attending a live art event where students will be given the opportunity to see artists Antony Gormley, Quentin Blake and Martin Creed talk about their own work and the larger ideas of ‘What is Art’

Exhibitions

Our students have exhibited their work in and around school. We take pride in all of our student’s art and design work and have a continually changing range of displays around the school. Our annual show takes place in April and May and celebrates our students success on their GCSE and A Level courses

GCSE Art and Design Exhibition

Year 11 art students completed their GCSE course with an impressive display of their artistic and creative skills. All students succeed in presenting 3 projects and their final exam work. The work covers a diverse range of approaches and techniques from sculptural carving, casting and modelling, through graphic design and traditional drawing and painting. Our students demonstrate their influences from a range of sources including a visit to the Yorkshire sculpture Park and the Deep in Hull. The art department said ‘Our students have worked hard and have shown a great deal of commitment to their work. We are proud of the achievements of all our students and congratulate every one who exhibited their work.’
The exhibition is open to the public please see the calendar for further details.

Lunchtime activities

Students enjoy the opportunity to extend their artwork through lunchtime art clubs. Some choose to complete and extend class work whilst others want to try out their own creative ideas.

Technology

The art department encourages students to use a wide variety of media including computers. Students can work on images and manipulate their own work through access to a network of very well resourced computers and software including Photoshop and Paintshop Pro. All our computers are networked and have access to the internet for research and development purposes

Gifted and Talented

We are pleased to be able to support al students and are lucky to have a number of very talented individuals. In order to stretch and challenge these students we provide opportunities to extend their learning through lunchtime art club. In the Summer term we have taken a small number of students to Harewood house where students from other schools work together in developing their creative potential. Students have had a chance to develop both drawing and observational skills and experimented with new printing and display techniques.

POST 16

We currently Offer courses at both AS and A2 levels. The courses encourage a more independent approach to the subject and students are provided with one to one tuition and the opportunity to explore a wider range of techniques from a number of starting points. The students are offered the chance to make visits to both local and national gallerieds and venues in order to develop a deeper understanding of thir chosen field of study. 6th form Art students have the opportuniy to discuss life as a Foundation student at Art College recently when ex Sherburn art students return to school to describe life after completing A levels in art and design Returning students talk with current post 16 students as they complete their exhibitions and discuss the practical aspects of student life and the advantages of a foundation course.

We are proud to deliver a rich, enjoyable and diverse experience of Art and Design to our students.