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exploring images creating images extension activity
Exploring Images
An Extension Activity
On Creative Explorer, your students have had the opportunity to create a photographic work of art. You can extend this exercise by helping them to develop an exhibition around their compositions. This could be either a class or a group activity.
Firstly, students will need to print out their compositions. They may wish to add colour if there is not access to a colour printer.
Then have them move on to making up their exhibition, taking the following factors into consideration:
- What order should the images go in?
- Will all images be the same size?
- Do the images require any particular lighting?
- Do the images need captions along with their titles?
- Should a short biography be provided for each artist?
- Should there be a programme for the exhibition, containing such information as artist biographies?
Once your students have decided the basic layout for their exhibition, they will need to begin thinking about the practical details, such as mounting and framing their works.
Fiona Pardington is well known for creating amazing frames using such items as old buttons, bottle tops, string, and pictures and text from newspapers and magazines. She says, "I ask myself how the frame can add to the impact or meaning of the work, because if it can't do that, it shouldn't be there." Encourage your students to consider whether a frame would add to the meaning of their image, and what materials would best suit the message of the image.
Curriculum Links
The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum (Draft) describes four strands within the discipline of the visual arts. These are Learning the Languages of the Visual Arts, Developing Ideas in the Visual Arts, Communicating and Interpreting Meaning in the Visual Arts, and Understanding the Visual Arts in Context. By learning about photography, photographers and other visual artists in New Zealand, and by experimenting with composition techniques in the activity provided, Creative Explorer can be used to meet a number of achievement objectives at levels 3 and 4 of this curriculum statement.
Some Additional Resources
There may well be many resources available in your school library to support visual arts. However, the following materials may be useful:
Ministry of Education. New Zealand Artists Series. Learning Media, Wellington. This features artists such as Cliff Whiting, Paul Dibble, Carole Shepheard, Claudia Pond Eyley, Fatu Feu'u, and Marte Szirmay.
Ministry of Education. Photographers in Search of a Nation: A History of New Zealand Photography. Learning Media, Wellington, 1993-1995. This series is presented in the form of four sets of thirty-six colour slides, with notes for teachers in each set. The four sets are:
Photo Pioneers: Nineteenth Century New Zealand Photographers;
The Pictorialists, and Photography for All;
Documentary Photography; and
Photography as a Means of Personal Expression.
Aberhart, Laurance; Barr, Jim; Barr, Mary; Burke, Gregory. Imposing Narratives: Beyond the Documentary in Recent New Zealand Photography. Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, c. 1989.
Burke, Gregory, and Weiermair, Peter. Cultural Safety: Contemporary Art from New Zealand. Wellington City Art Gallery, Wellington, 1995.
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