Check out this short video to experience the full visual and auditory effects of the recent art installation in our Curve Gallery. To find out more about this exhibition read our article. Continue reading
Category Archives: Art
War on Waste: Cross-Curricular Art Installation
The Art department have been extremely lucky to have had Carly Mitchell volunteering for just over a year. Carly is an ex-student who returned to Chis & Sid to work with students in various lessons in the department. During the last few months, Carly undertook an ambitious cross curricular project, with Art, Geography and Design … Continue reading
Art students from Chis and Sid invited to London Fashion Week by headlining designer Richard Quinn
After getting in touch with Richard to arrange an interview with our A Level Art students for The Chronicle he kindly extended an invitation to our Art students to attend his third London Fashion Week catwalk show for September 2018. Our Art Sudents, all 50, were accompanied by our Head Teacher Mr Walker, Amanda Sutton (Chairman … Continue reading
Year 11 Art students visit Excel Centre
To support our GCSE Art students in making informed and relevant choices that could influence their careers and degree choices we arranged for the second time a visit to the impressive Excel Centre. The Exhibition Centre London, commonly referred to as just the ExCeL, is an exhibition and international convention complex in the east of … Continue reading
Year 10 Art students visit ArcellorMittall Orbit
As in previous years, the Year 10 GCSE Art students visited the iconic Orbit sculpture situated in the Olympic Park, Stratford, designed by Anish Kapoor. The weather was changeable but lead to some superb photographic opportunities on the day. It is an Autumnal trip which lends to the stunning colours captured by our talented students. The experience … Continue reading
Art students visit to the Saatchi gallery
The Year 11 12 Art students visited The Saatchi Gallery during October 2018 this year on a combined trip. The exhibition was named Black Mirror; Art as Social satire. It featured an eclectic range of highly diverse works ranging from resin casts of a horse to industrial labour intensive sculptural installations. The visuals were arresting. … Continue reading
East End Art Tour
Each year The Art Department plan out a tour featuring a number of private galleries across the East End of London. This gives the A Level Art students the opportunity to access current contemporary artworks at both small and large venues which this year included Parasol Unit, Beers Contemporary, Victoria Miro and The Barbican Arts … Continue reading
Classics in Art
On Tuesday 3rd July a group of Year 8 students went to the National Gallery to learn more about mythology in paintings. We started with a treasure hunt and found twelve paintings which depicted a different myth; such works included two by Titian including the ‘Death of Actaeon’ and our favourite ‘Bacchus and Ariadne’. We … Continue reading
Portraiture
Year 8 spent some time this year focusing on the theme of Portraiture during Art lessons, and their progress and hard work has been particularly impressive. Many students when faced with the task of drawing a portrait, were understandably nervous, but after a few lessons, armed with knowledge of proportions and techniques, together with a … Continue reading
Magical Margate Art Trip
(do make sure you scroll to the end to view the students’ photos!) Margate was an experience of contrasting elements. It was a silvery grey day, ideal for photography. We started at Dreamland, both interior and exterior shots. A retro opportunity alongside the off season stillness, the atmosphere contributed to the poignancy of the shots, … Continue reading
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