St. Hilda’s Art and Design Department
In response to a brief set by ‘Wild in Art’, the people behind the Super Lambananas, St. Hilda’s Art and Design Department have risen to the challenge and created a fantastic penguin with an ecological message.
Pupils in the Penguin Club discussed their ideas and were invited to submit designs.
The completed penguin, inspired by artist Michael Velliquette, is called ‘Spirit of the Earth’. The girls created a design out of cut paper.
The design is busy and detailed and hopefully keeps the viewer looking and searching for all the creatures nestling in an imaginary landscape.
The girls talked about the joint responsibility of everyone on the planet to protect the earth for future generations. The front celebrates nature and its diversity and the back shows a melting ice cap as a warning, like an illustration from a modern day fairy tale with a moral.
5 St Hilda’s pupils featured in this year’s School’s Artists’ Portfolio published by afterschoolclub.net. The pupils were asked to let their pencils and paintbrushes do the talking by inviting them to enter their Express Yourself competition. The work of Ridda Mahmood, Faye Halliday, Kate Ellison, Nichola James and Roksolyana Maksymyk all featured in this year's portfolio.
by Roksolyana Maksymyk "I come from the Ukraine and my work is often inspired by different cultures. In this painting i was trying to express my doubts about which culture I belong to. I always feel trapped into deciding what path in life I should choose. My painting shows all the images that come to my head when I think about who I am. Many of these images are special memories from my childhood events."Untitled
Which Way To Go?
by Faye Halliday
"Hello, I’m Faye Halliday; I live in Liverpool. I love animals and spend my weekends helping in animal rescue centres and horse riding; however this love is more than a hobby. When I’m older I want to be a vet which leads on to my art piece. I try to work hard at school and sometimes feel torn between the different aspects of my life – family, school work, animals etc so I tried to express this in my piece. I chose to do it as a sort of spider diagram as I think it is the easiest way to explain it."
