TUTOR: SIMON TAYLORUAL LEVEL 3 DIPLOMA IN ART & DESIGNSCULPTURE. UNIT 6PROJECT TITLE: TOWERStart Date. 14/11/13 to 6/2/14Critique: am 6/2/14Assessment: am 6/2/14

Aims: -To enable students to explore and experiment with a range of materials and processes-To provide students with creative techniques to enable, extend and develop their 3/d awareness and practical skills.-To present and expand contextual perspectives in Art and Design.

HEALTH & SAFETY.

To produce a final Project outcome students are required to take part responsibility for your own learning. This will enable a greater freedom that will support, planning, research, ideas, methods, evaluation and reflective practice.PRACTICAL SESSIONS:As part of ‘working practice’ your must be aware of Health and Safety practice and procedures.-Be aware of Fire and Evacuation procedures. -Familiarize yourself with Studio/Work Facilities: Managing and organizing your work station to enable conducive learning for yourself and the group in general.- Equipment, tools and machinery should be used safely and correctly according to instruction and guidelines. -All Workshop Codes of Professional Practice should be abided to and good conduct carried out.

Part 6. Professional Practice. Carry out Health & Safety and good studio practice and fulfil the Professional Practice questionnaire.

TOWER

Introduction:

Towers represent: strength, power and beauty.

Towers have been used throughout History as, homes and fortresses, providing shelter, warmth and safety for its inhabitancy.

Modern Towers are known as Tower blocks that developed in the Modernist era, the Contemporary version we know as the more aesthetically appealing Sky scrapers.

We also use the word Tower as a metaphor-“there he stood, grown suddenly tall, towering above them" (J.R.R. Tolkien).

Dictionary. Tower: tow·er n.

- A building that is higher in proportion to its width and length.

- A tall, slender structure used for observation.

- One that mentally or visually embodies strength, firmness, or another virtue.

BRIEF:

You will explore and experiment with a range of materials and processes that will build a body of 3/D work that has been inspired and developed using the Theme of ‘TOWER’.

Research and Practical developments will explore MANMADE or NATURE themes that investigate Representation, Abstraction or Metaphorical Ideas.

Your Project will develop a final form that is a free-standing Vertical structure and created from a single or multiple materials.

Part 1. Research: 15 minimum Sketchbook pages.

- In your sketch book gather research information that develops your ideas and concepts you have about ‘TOWERS’. This resource material could comprise of photographs /photocopies, drawings, cut-outs etc, e.g. Watch Towers, Skyscrapers, Ancient monuments, Tall organic forms, Tall manmade forms.

- To further your research, select two different Artists who work in different ways but have inspired your creative TOWER ideas.

Document and discuss their work with Illustrations by writing min’ 100 words on each artist.

Part 2. 3/D Experimentation and 2/D Designing.

Exploring and experimenting with 3/D materials and processes in practical workshops: WK 1. Paper WK 2. ClayWK 3. Wire & mesh metalsWK 4. Plaster.

Over these weeks you will develop your own ‘TOWER’ ideas by drawing and building your project research.

SCULPTURE

TOWER

TUTOR: SIMON TAYLORUAL LEVEL 3 DIPLOMA IN ART & DESIGNSCULPTURE. UNIT 6PROJECT TITLE: TOWERStart Date. 14/11/13 to 6/2/14Critique: am 6/2/14Assessment: am 6/2/14

Dictionary. Tower: tow·er n.

- A building that is higher in proportion to its width and length.

- A tall, slender structure used for observation.

- One that mentally or visually embodies strength, firmness, or another virtue.

BRIEF:

You will explore and experiment with a range of materials and processes that will build a body of 3/D work that has been inspired and developed using the Theme of ‘TOWER’.

Research and Practical developments will explore MANMADE or NATURE themes that investigate Representation, Abstraction or Metaphorical Ideas.

Your Project will develop a final form that is a free-standing Vertical structure and created from a single or multiple materials.

Peter Randell-Page

Tony Cragg

Tony Cragg

SCULPTUREPROJECT TITLE: TOWER

Workshop 1. 14/11/13Paper TOWERS.Task 1: In small groups Design and Construct a Tower using a unlimited amount of A1 paper and a limited amount of masking or sello tape ( 3 cm strips) Design your Tower on paper in groupsBuild your Tower as tall as you can.Build your Tower with good design and aesthetic