4 - 8 March 2008

Tuesday - Saturday

10am - 5pm

Images from the exhibition

For the third year, Harbour House hands over the Gallery to the Art Department of Kingsbridge Community College for a week, giving the Art and Photography students of Year 12 the opportunity to show what's involved in studying at AS Level.

Professional photographer Eliot Siegel has been drafted in to work with the students once again, sharing his experience and expertise in the world of portrait and fashion photography. The students turned the school hall into a temporary photography studio, and over the course of a day manipulated lighting, backdrops, and models to produce a series of dramatic digital portraits.

Other themes explored by the photography students include Evidence and The Natural World, making use traditional photographic techniques.

The art department continues to make use of the dynamic sculptor Meier Williams, who has guided the students through a two-day workshop, Architecture and the Human Form.  This represents the culmination of a period of thorough research, where the students have practised drawing from the model, researched a wide range of artists, and studied the architecture of the church at West Alvington. On a trip to the British Museum in London they looked at classical sculpture, the forms and aspects of body adornment seen in other cultures, the use of body armour, and, to begin to relate the figure to its environment, they studied the architecture of the building itself. The students' sketchbook work alone is vibrant and bursting with ideas, and the finished sculptures are stunning.

Other projects include Conceal and Reveal, a theme explored through painting and printmaking.

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