Plaster Casting

Last week was a lovely sunny day, so we went out and painted the fence artworks and afterwards the students filled their gloves with water and enjoyed the odd shapes the water filled gloves made. So we decided to make some plaster filled gloves, which we did this week. Earlier in the year we had looked at some ideas for using hands in different ways as part of the fence project, so these tests will be a good start to developing the idea further.

Otari School Fair

A few photos from the School Fair fence workshop, these are the first of the artworks and the students have been working on some further pieces that will go up on the front fence. When the work is placed along the fence, a qr code will also be mounted on the fence so people can listen to the sounds the artworks represent.

Student's Sound Sculptures

Fence Artwork

This is a test for the artwork going on the fence, this piece is based on the spectrogram of a tui and the colour scheme is taken from the colours of a tui. The final pieces when they are made will each have a qr code attached, so people can scan the code and listen to the sounds each artwork represents. Click here to listen to a tui.

Colours of Otari School

Last week the students took a series of photographs of the colours found around the school, this is part of our mapping work but it will also provide us with ideas for painting the sound artworks, which we will be starting at the Twilight Fair next month. Over the next couple of weeks we will be trying out some small test sculptures, recording sounds commonly heard in the area, such as tui and children playing and collecting more colours.

Sound Fence - Twilight Fair

The Art Group and I will be running a workshop at the Twilight Fair, the idea being to get the wider School community involved in the fence project.
The workshop will involve building a series of artworks, made from recycled wood, which will represent the sounds students recorded earlier in the year as part of the sound map they made, these include bird song, children playing, wind and rain. Below are some images showing how the artworks will look and if you need any further information, feel free to contact me.

Spectrogram of a Tui

Tiles

All the tile designs have been handed in and below are images of all the design ideas plus some designs using images the art group have produced over the last year. With the art group I will work on the designs to work out how they can be used on the tiles, this will mean looking at combining, repeating and enhancing some of the original designs so they work well as a ceramic tile.