1. Year 11 GCSE
Exam 2015
Apart AND / OR TOGETHER
(pick and choose from the following tasks)

2. Similar to a camera capturing multiple
exposures in a single image, artist Katie
Grinnan created this sculptural time-lapse
of her body moving through a daily yoga
routine using sand, plastic, and enamel.
The end result is representative of both
time and form as each split second is
layered onto the last creating what is both
a singular figure and many

3. Task
• Press your hand/fingers 3 times across a piece of clay
showing movement. Cast this in plaster.
• Alternatively work in groups of 3 or 4 and take a group
cast using mod-roc. 2 people need to have hands
overlapping while the other using mod-roc to cover. Then
add plaster to your cast

4. Layered photo drawings
Photographer Christoffer Relander created a series of
photographs titled “We Are Nature” using double and triple
exposures.

5. Task
Using 2 sheets of acetate, layer a photo of yourself with images from
nature. Make a detailed tonal drawing or tracing of the double image.
Transfer your tracing onto the silver juice carton sheet. Scratch out
the drawing using a compass point to create an etching plate.
Print the plate using the etching press.
If you have 2 printing plates you can create one portrait and one
natural plate. Then experiment with layering the plates as you print
them using different colours/tones
Alternatively create this layered effect on photoshop!

6. Homework
http://www.christophniemann.com/
1. Create a visual and annotated brainstorm
across a double page spread.
Find as many relevant images and ideas as
possible related to the exam theme. Consider
using a dictionary and thesaurus to help you find
alternative ideas besides those given in the exam
paper.
2. Place an object on a piece of paper. Draw on
the paper around the object to create a new
image. Photograph your creations and stick them
in your sketchbook. Some could be quick
drawings, and some more detailed. Complete 10
images/drawings and photograph each one.

7. Fine Liner drawings
Vasco Mourao is an architect and illustrator originally from Portugal
who now lives and works in Barcelona. His densely illustrated cities
and structures are drawn entirely by hand and while all are of course
fictional places, they often incorporate real buildings. For instance, in
the most dense piece above entitled New Yorker one can find the
Chrysler building, the Met, the Whitney, and the Guggenheim among
others

8. Task
• Using fine liner pens copy the images of building to
create a densely packed, detailed line drawing covering
the whole of your paper. It does not need to be realistic
and you can pile buildings on top of each other

9. In Things Come Apart, McLellan exposes the inner working of 50 objects
and 21,959 individual components as he reflects on the permanence of
vintage machines built several decades ago—sturdy gadgets meant to
be broken and repaired—versus today’s manufacturing trend of limited
use followed by quick obsolescence.

10. Task
Bring in an object that you can take apart. Try to choose an object
with lots of different parts to it, like an old broken radio or phone.
Lay the parts out on a piece of paper and photograph/draw them.
Then create a new sculpture from the parts using glue/wire/tape. Re-
photograph your sculpture/object

11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWqH1oIWJJY
The latest work from
Illinois-born artist and
dancer Tony Orrico.
Tony has
worked/performed
continuously for
upward of four hours
on his drawings that
resemble enormous,
manically scribbled
spirographs
“I stand facing the wall in a stationary stance, using my arm span,
bilateral movement, and alternating variables to inscribe three large
circles. In circle one (day one), my right hand spontaneously navigates
as my left hand instantly copies and reverses the patterning. In circle
two (day two), I repeat this practice with the left hand leading. For the
center circle (day three), both hands direct simultaneously, striving for
perfect unison.”

12. Tasks
• In front of you on the table stick down 1 sheet of paper
with masking tape. Using fine liner pens or pencils create
exactly the same movements with both hands and draw
whatever is in front of you. Keep your arms outstretched
and don’t bend your elbows!
• Now take another piece of paper. Fold the paper in half.
On one half draw trees (from photos provided) using
black ink and a thin brush. Fold the paper in half to
create a symmetrical print. Work in to using more ink
maintaining symmetry in the image.

13. Homework
Collect together a group of the
same objects. Make a detailed
observational drawing or painting
of this collection.
Research the work of Lisa Milroy
and Lorraine Shemesh (her
drawings and paintings of objects-
right)

14. Task
Students get into pairs and create a
combined portrait of themselves and
their friend using collage techniques (see
John Stezaker) these can be create
using horizontal strips, or random
shapes as long as they create a
combined portrait.
At the end of the lesson, take in all
collages to photocopy up to A3 on
cartridge paper, ready to paint into using
black and white acrylic.

15. Task :Drawing Animal Hybrids
Make detailed hybrid
animal drawings.Use
photographs (provided)to
first create collages, then
either monoprint or draw
from them. Look at
Thomas Grunfeld.
Take photos of each
student for next task!

16. Task: Sculpting Animal Hybrid
Students begin to sculpt their
animal hybrid using clay. Small
scale sculptures that can be fired
and glazed.
During lesson take photos of
students in Superhero poses/and
or strange angles (.eg from above,
arms outstretched as though they
are hanging from edge of a
building etc). These can then be
collaged on to different
backgrounds next week

17. Half Term Tasks
If your house suddenly caught on fire, what would you grab as you fled out the
door? That's precisely the question Foster Huntington asked himself
This started as a website and became a book. People are asked to group together
the objects they would save from a burning building and submit the photo of the
collection and an explanation of why those objects are significant.
Arrange your own objects like those above and photograph them together. Write an
explanation as to why you would save these. Make detailed drawings of your
objects.
http://theburninghouse.com/

18. Half Term Tasks
http://www.tomhussey.com/SERIES/Reflections/thumbs
Tom Hussey Photographer
These images are part of a series of photos created for an advertisement for medication to help people
suffering from Alzheimers. Alzheimers is a condition where recent memories are stripped away leaving the
sufferer left with memories of their youth. So we the mirror used as a way of showing how the person sees
themselves, in contrast to how they appear to those around them.
Task: Find 2 different photos of yourself at different ages. Create this effect using collage or photoshop, the
hard edges of the mirror makes fitting together the two different images fairly easy. You could create an image
that looks at differences between how we see ourselves and how we are seen by others or how you were and
how you are now. You could even use an older family member as your subject.

19. Half Term Tasks: Impossible Buildings
Filip Dujardin
http://www.filipdujardin.be/
Take photographs of as many different
types of buildings as you can. Take close
up shots and different angles. Then from
your photos create an “impossible
building” collage.
Draw this collage using pen and ink /
etching/printmaking.

20. http://www.fromkeetra.com/
Half Term Task
Out of sketchbook piece.
Create a sculpture by combing two of the same object together. Think about how best to
join them. Maybe you could join more than two? Take a photograph of your new sculpture
and put in your sketchbook. Collect images and research from the website here.

21. Apart and/or together
Ideas for things to draw :-
Objects in pairs – shoes, socks, roller skates, boots, trainers, skis.
Objects that can be grouped together – food on plates, food in
cupboards, objects in the bathroom cabinet, clothes in a wardrobe,
boxes full of odds and ends.
Objects that can be dismantled – mixers, power tools, engines,
plumbing, chicken carcass.
Objects that can taken apart – clocks, calculators, old phones, old
typewriters, old speakers or headphones.

22. Ideas for RecordingA03
Topic Observational Drawing Your own Photographs
People Embracing, hugging, showing affection.
Happiness, grief, loneliness, separation.
Portraits. Self-Portraits. Facial expressions.
Clothing. (folds, creases, colour, pattern, tone)
Human Figures. Hands.
Embracing, hugging, showing affection.
Happiness, grief, loneliness, separation.
Portraits. Self-Portraits. Facial expressions.
Clothing. (folds, creases, colour, pattern, tone)
Human Figures. Hands.
Places Interior spaces.
Places where people gather in your home, socialising or on your own,
empty or crowded.
New and old parts of a town or city. Newly developed, urban decay,
regeneration.
Bridges, subways, tunnels, roads, railways, embankments.
Places where people gather; empty or crowded. Inside or outside.
Natural World Symmetrical and irregular shapes and patterns in nature and natural
objects, e.g. fruit, vegetables, flowers, shells, roots, twigs, nuts, seeds,
plants. (internal & external)
Natural objects sliced, chopped, peeled, ripped, cracked, pulled apart,
mixed together.
Natural objects growing and decaying. (colour, tone, texture)
Landscape. Weather and climates. Erosion and decay.
Decay of natural objects over time. Growth & decay.
Changing seasons.
Groups of living things.
Creatures alone or in groups. (zoo, farm, wild-life park, pets)
Objects Any object man-made or natural that can be taken apart or put together.
Found objects.
Objects before and after being taken apart.
Objects crushed, twisted, stretched, broken.
Discarded objects. Scrap material.
Mechanisms. Storage and packaging.
Pairs of objects – shoes, gloves, scissors, cutlery, ear-rings, etc.
Any object man-made or natural that can be taken apart or put together.
Found objects.
Objects before and after being taken apart.
Objects crushed, twisted, stretched, broken, exploded.
Discarded objects. Scrap material.
Mechanisms. Storage and packaging.
Pairs of objects – shoes, gloves, etc.
Activities Stitching, sticking, fixing, folding materials together.
Ripping, tearing, cutting, dismantling, separating, pulling apart.
Objects related to activities, hobbies and interests.
Figures, faces and hands. (single people or in groups) Facial expressions.
Sporting events, concerts, tube/train station, school bus, shopping, parade,
boot-sale, market stall, air-port.
People at work or working.
Crowds organised (queues, marching, dancing, parade) or disorganised,
(rioting, shop sale) or both. (demonstrations, school playground, football
crowd)
People protesting for change in groups or as individuals.
Imprints (mark and texture)
Imagination Colour combinations. (individual or groups of objects)
Figures, faces and hands. (single people or in groups) Facial expressions.
Colour combinations. (individual or groups of objects)
Figures, faces and hands. (single people or in groups) Facial expressions.

23. Images For Class Tasks