After test week and the brilliant enrichment week (well done Miss Mabb). Year 7 have their trip to Tate Britain on Tuesday and in lessons will have a go at making masks, year 8 will start their first year 9 project on Fashion Design and year 9 students will be doing a mini project called "Issue Bods" using illustration techniques. Year 10 students will continue with their coursework before embarking on a mock examination project starting over the summer holiday. Year12 are finalising their "Human Form" project.

Wishing everyone all the best.

Challonerart hopes that we all enjoy the rich activities on offer in this promising week.

Test week is a chance for you to show your knowledge and understanding of art. Tell us what you know about the basic elements and the RED-P process. Draw a picture and develop it. Y10, this is the time for your assessment and Y12 will be making main pieces.... all the best

Phyllida Barlow was born in 1944 in Newcastle upon Tyne. She studied at Chelsea College of Art (1960–63) and the Slade School of Art (1963–66). After joining the staff in the late 1960s, Barlow taught at the Slade School of Art for more than forty years before retiring in 2009 and is now a Professor of Fine Art. Phyllida Barlow has had an important influence on younger generations of artists through her work and long teaching career in London art schools. At the Slade School of Fine Art, her students included Turner Prize-winning and nominated artists Rachel Whiteread and Angela de la Cruz. In 2011 Barlow became a Royal Academician and in 2015 she was made a CBE for her services to the arts in the Queen's New Year's Honours. In 2017, Barlow represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale. See here work here

Have a look here for all the information you need to succeed in the art test after half term

REVISION

In this fabulous Film, artist Zaria Forman talks eloquantly about her amazing drawings and her love for the environment. Truely inspirational

Angela Conner is an English sculptor who works in London. Conner has exhibited internationally and has large scale sculptures in public and private collections around the world. In her early life as a sculptor, Conner assisted Barbara Hepworth. She was born in 1935.

Sarah Simblet is a master draughtsman who is a teacher of drawing at Oxford University. She generally works on anatomy and the natural form such as trees and flowers. She has contributed to several books including one of our favourites in the art department library. See some more of her images here

Mary Fedden was a british painter of beautiful still lifes and landscapes who focused on colour and whose compositions were inspired by two French artists, Bonnard and Matisse. Read about her here