My Space
St Paul’s Way City -
This artwork was developed around the theme of My Space for an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Central London.
Year 8 and 9 students worked with artist Viyki Turnbull from the National Portrait Gallery and art teacher Laura Brereton to create artwork looking at the relationship between themselves and St Paul’s Way Community School.
This artwork was developed around the theme of My Space for an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Central London.
Year 8 and 9 students worked with artist Viyki Turnbull from the National Portrait Gallery and art teacher Laura Brereton to create artwork looking at the relationship between themselves and St Paul’s Way Community School.
The artwork was developed around the theme of My Space for an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Central London.
Year 8 and 9 students worked with artist Viyki Turnbull from the National Portrait Gallery and art teacher Laura Brereton to create artwork looking at the relationship between themselves and St Paul’s Way Community School.
The students then worked with spray artists’ design4life during three days of the summer holidays to create the spray mural on the walls of the school building. Photographs, video and spray paintings from this project will be on show at the National Portrait Gallery in an exhibition this autumn.
To create this dynamic work, the students looked at reflections of themselves and the city around them, and found ways to reflect the built space in their movements using photography and construction. They made drawings of the negative space in stairwells and between doorways and used these to create 2 metre high architectural models from Dowling rods and fabric.
The students used these to project photographs of themselves onto the surface and thought about layering and changing compositions with their images. They transformed ordinary white cloths into vehicles for their ideas about the school creating distorted images that were fun, weird, surreal and dream-like.
The students’ final design was inspired by Frank Miller’s graphic novels Sin City (as was the title of the work) and they learnt how to spray paint with artists Jae, Barney and others to create this finished work.
The National Portrait Gallery has over 330,000 works in its collection and is devoted to portraits of men and women who have made a significant contribution to British History and Culture.
The exhibition My Space at the National Portrait Gallery was exhibited within the gallery from the 20th October 2007 - March 2008.
Year 8 and 9 students worked with artist Viyki Turnbull from the National Portrait Gallery and art teacher Laura Brereton to create artwork looking at the relationship between themselves and St Paul’s Way Community School.
The students then worked with spray artists’ design4life during three days of the summer holidays to create the spray mural on the walls of the school building. Photographs, video and spray paintings from this project will be on show at the National Portrait Gallery in an exhibition this autumn.
To create this dynamic work, the students looked at reflections of themselves and the city around them, and found ways to reflect the built space in their movements using photography and construction. They made drawings of the negative space in stairwells and between doorways and used these to create 2 metre high architectural models from Dowling rods and fabric.
The students used these to project photographs of themselves onto the surface and thought about layering and changing compositions with their images. They transformed ordinary white cloths into vehicles for their ideas about the school creating distorted images that were fun, weird, surreal and dream-like.
The students’ final design was inspired by Frank Miller’s graphic novels Sin City (as was the title of the work) and they learnt how to spray paint with artists Jae, Barney and others to create this finished work.
The National Portrait Gallery has over 330,000 works in its collection and is devoted to portraits of men and women who have made a significant contribution to British History and Culture.
The exhibition My Space at the National Portrait Gallery was exhibited within the gallery from the 20th October 2007 - March 2008.