This Art and design video supports teachers in guiding learners as they plan their final 3D sculptures inspired by the artist Joseph Cornell. The lesson encourages learners to reflect on personal memories and explore how to represent them through symbolic objects and thoughtful assemblage.
year: Stage 6
Learner video: Making relief sculptures
This Art and design video supports learners as they transform their personal memories into symbolic relief sculptures. Learners begin by selecting shapes and colours to represent emotions and events, creating a design. Then they develop their abstract compositions into layered 3D artworks.
Teacher video: Experimenting with 2D to 3D
This Art and design video supports teachers in guiding learners through the creation of a relief sculpture inspired by the artist Louise Nevelson. Through a two-part activity, learners explore abstraction, translating personal memories into symbolic shapes and developing their ideas from paper compositions into layered three-dimensional forms.
Teacher video: Self-expression
This Art and design video supports teachers in guiding learners through the initial stages of a sculptural project rooted in self-expression. The lesson introduces the concept of ‘self’ through artistic reflection, encouraging learners to explore personal memories and experiences as inspiration for three-dimensional work.
Teacher video: Fiona Rae
This Art and design video supports teachers in guiding learners through an exploration of abstract painting inspired by contemporary artist Fiona Rae. The lesson focuses on developing visual literacy through discussion, interpretation and personal response.
Learner video: Painting skills
This Art and design video demonstrates an abstract painting activity inspired by the work of Fiona Rae. The activity encourages creative expression, thoughtful use of colour and experimentation with mood and shape.
Learner video: Painting techniques
This Art and design video demonstrates expressive painting techniques using tools like cotton buds and sponges. The activity encourages playful exploration, creative mark-making and confidence with materials.
Teacher video: Painting techniques
This Art and design video supports teachers as learners explore a variety of painting techniques to represent animals in imaginative ways. From stippling and pointillism to washes and textured paints, the video demonstrates how different methods can be used to create depth, texture, and mood.
Learner video: Animal art inspiration
This Art and design video demonstrates a drawing activity inspired by the imaginative animal artwork of Lisa Ericson. The activity encourages observation, creative thinking and storytelling through detailed imagery.