Sculpture Ideas

A couple of the students have done some small sculpture test ideas based on bird's nests, and next year we shall further develop their ideas, along with the hand sculptures and other ideas we have been working on.

Bird's Nest Sculptures Natalie Tyler 

Photo via This is Colossal 

Environmental Art from Mr Randall's Classroom

Tile Workshop

We had the tile workshop today, where we tested out different designs for some tiles that we will be making for the top of the fence posts. Aimee run the workshop and brought all the materials to make the tiles and decorate them. The workshop went very well and at break time more students turned up and had a chance to make some tiles. Once these tiles are completed Aimee and I will plan the rest of the tiles and how to produce the 40 designs students from the school have designed.

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.