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All students from the Early Learning Centre to Year 12 were invited to create a terracotta creature as part of a Whole School Art project fo Creative Arts Week.
During Term 2 and culminating in Creative Arts Week in Term 3, students from the Early Learning Centre to Year 12 were invited to create a terracotta creature. Every student was encouraged to find their own unique way of making the creature, while meeting certain requirements.
Each miniature sculpture had to be handsize, easy to hold and made by pushing and pulling clay. The creature had to be made with a single piece of clay with no pieces added or joined. The creature had to have a flat base so that it could easily stand, and two deep eyes created with a piece of dowl provided.
The hundreds of figures were combined onto black wooden discs and installed in the Hillsley Atrium as part of the ELC to Year 11 Exhibition before finding a temporary home in the Senior School Library. Each creature was unique, just like the individuals who created them and together, they formed an amazing and powerful installation, reflecting the potential that our students can achieve when they work together as a team!
Special thanks to Ms Lyn Begg for introducing this project and the Visual Arts Staff for their support in bringing the project to fruition.
Mr Deryck Greenwood
Head of Creative Arts
British artist Anthony Gormley is well known for his life-size sculptures that mimic the human body. His Field series, however, represents a different approach. Between 1991 and 2003, Gormley created five fields, each consisting of thousands of terracotta figures. Up to 210,000 were used in his latest piece of the series, Asian Field, in 2003. Each figure is between 8cm and 26cm high and are all installed on the floor of a room facing the viewer. The Field series were collaborative installations, made with the help of the public. Large groups of everyday people created the individual pieces that the artist then displayed together in installations, usually in large indoor spaces.
