Year 7 Observational Drawing

Today two students produced some fantastic observational drawings of a bottle. Well done Charlotte Keen and Maya Withey!

Year 7 Still Life

Year 7 were set a homework to create their own still life using Sam Taylor-Wood and Caravaggio for influence. We had some fantastic photography and time lapse work produced! Please find attached a link to Ben Brown's Time Lapse titled 'Time Flies'' More photos to follow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvdiNH80X_0

CB year 10 art & design group

Unlikely looking bunch aren't they but surprisingly creative. Watch this space.

Year 9 Self Portraits

95 work in progress!

CGS Art Show 2012



Josh Shreeve

 

Lucy Gregory



Emily Gloor



Natasha Furmidge



Being greeted by a  laughing horse is no ordinary circumstance and appropriately this sets the scene for another fabulous exhibition highlighting the talent and imagination of the current crop of artists and photographers at CGS. Traditional themes have been given a contemporary twist and a wry sense of humour prods the eye of the art establishment. Reality drips from the frying pan the shed becomes a receptacle for art with attitude and ambition. Trees grow from the inanimate object and echo the emphasis on time and transformation. On entering the show the foyer space houses a wonderful set of framed works where bare feet and barbed wire prepare the visitor for an edgy and interesting experience.In the first  room a couple of piano millipedes writhe under the watchful eye of the Caretaker; the stand out portrait by Becky Smith. Photographic pieces demonstrate a high level of technical skill with Harry Ryan's Trafalgar series a following the theme of old school colliding with new. Here in the main gallery space crisp graphic images off set fluid painterly portraits where Monty Python meets Henri Matisse. Film work and animation also investigate beautiful simplicity of the body in movement by Zoe Moody and the karaoke chaos of Rory Brown's 'Journey'. New to this year are a selection of year 11 art students who on merit have found themselves amongst the best in school. Here it seems there is an inexhaustible supply of talented new artists waiting to chance their arm; roll on next year!

Royal Academy On-Line Finalist!

A painting by seventeen year old, fine-art student Rebecca Smith from Chesham Grammar School, was one of only 45 works eventually chosen by the curators of the Royal Academy A-Level Summer exhibition on-line. The judging panel which included the Royal Academician Grayson Perry were faced with 1,450 submissions from courses all over the country. Rebecca’s painting entitled ‘the caretaker’ will feature on the Royal Academy website with fellow CGS student Harriet Stone being shortlisted. Both these student artists will be showing work at the annual  Exhibition at the school on Saturday 30^th June from 12-4pm. A-Level art and photography created by the students over the past year will be on show where sales of postcards, fridge magnets and revenue from a prize draw will go towards the Breakthrough Breast Cancer charity. Head of Art & Photography Chris Biddle said, ‘The standard of work this year was exceptional and really highlights the potential, skills and imagination of the students. Anyone interested in the current state of art at schools should come along and support a worthy cause.’

Becky Smith pictured with her certificate and winning entry ‘The Caretaker’.

CGS Summer Exhibition

Come and celebrate the endeavours of CGS artists and Photographers at the Summer Exhibition.