This week as part of the 1st years "art and the environment" project, we dealt with the sub-theme of "Form". The lesson saw students look into the work of Neil Mabb and his work relating to form or more so the loss of form. Neils projects deal with the notion of removing form and suggest that we are to concerned with what we know (hard knowledge) as oppose to open up out creative minds with removing the identity of forms. The lesson started with each student bringing in an object of their choice purchased form a Charity shop and wrapping the contents so that its identity was removed and hidden form the other students.
The students then carried out a 3 part drawing activity:
Draw what you feel
Draw what you think
Draw what you see (the object by this point was unwrapped)
Of course like all lessons that hold ownerships onto how ambitious were the students in their purchases are a risk, some objects have more about them in terms of further experimentation. I wanted to challenge the students into seeing what else that could use their object for other than its primary function (a challenge for a 16 year old holding a random object). Below is a particular student who decided to use her object as a drawing machine and produced some great experimental drawings. I really hope she takes this further and develops a series of these looking at different medias to experiment with.
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