We have loved facilitating this collaboration between artist Zoe Robertson and Phoenix Dance, Leeds for Our Biennale www..ourbiennale.org. Not only have dance and art students worked together to really challenge their creativity but the outcomes will be taken into Kirklees schools to produce new dances which will be performed at the Our Biennale finale on […]
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With support from the Penistone Line Partnership the first station to hang paintings for the Great Kirklees Railway Exhbition is Honley. 30 paintings are now exhibited along the platform at Honley Station depicting Castle Hill, Honley, The Penistone Line and the Tour de France. Both colour and imagery reflect the theme of Darkness and Light
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We have made a start on one of the exciting projects for Our Biennale 2018 (an arts festival for children and young people in Kirklees taking place this autumn). The Great Kirklees Railway Exhibition aims to create 100 paintings by Kirklees children and young people to be exhibited along platforms of stations along the Penistone
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As well as our fabulous swarms of buzzing bees our older groups made their very own flying machines alongside The Children’s Art School Director Chloe Williams who was commissioned to make her own fantastical flying machine. Using willow and tissue paper the groups started by creating wings or balloons: Then used junk modelling to create
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We have loved being involved in this years Holmfirth Arts Festival Parade, working alongside Bee from Handmade Parade and artist Dave Young: With the theme of Flight we had a fantastic few weeks working in the Market Hall , Holmfirth delivering our own sessions and helping out at the public workshops… We created bee
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With support from Holme Valley Parish Council we have been creating paintings to be exhibited around Holmfirth for the coming festivals. These photographs show works in progress by year 5 at Holmfirth JI and N school. Gorgeous colourful paintings which represent the festivals and the community events in Holmfirth. Look out for them in the
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We are very excited to announce that The Children’s Art School has been given a £46, 000 Grants for the Arts Award by Arts Council England to deliver a Kirklees Children’s Biennale (that’s a bi-annual Arts Festival !) Supported by and on behalf of the Kirklees Cultural Education Partnership the Biennale will reach hundreds of
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Our Intermediate and senior groups really outshone themselves with this fantastic Halloween big draw! Using themselves (by drawing around each other) they used light and dark to create these skeletal/ghostly figures: Seniors started adding an accessory here and there!!
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Great work being produced at our evening class for high school kids and grown ups. This 6 week course aims to develop observation skills and to enable students to create the illusion of 3D using light and shade as well as begin to understand composition . We are exploring drawing and painting, using pencil,
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We have loved being part of the Honley Feast Parade in collaboration with Rhythm Sticks. With a nod to the history of Honley Feast when the day would start with a circus parading through the streets Katie Mallard from Rhythm Sticks led a samba band wearing hand-made costumes-(lions and giraffes ) and children from Farnley
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