Key Knowledge

Textiles-Natural Applique/Hessian Leaf overlay

• To know how textile artist Jean Daveywinter uses collage and layering techniques, combined with use of paint and dye to colour fabrics.
• To understand how different properties of fabrics (eg. textures,  sheen/lustre) can be utilised in textile artwork.

3D-Chris Ofili shoes/Alberto Giocometti figures/Tissue bowls and vases

• To understand how artist Alberto Giocometti uses 3D materials to create human and animal form sculptures.
• To investigate different artists’ individual figurative sculptural forms.
• To know how wire can be twisted and bent, and modroc used, as sculptural materials.
• To know the 3D shoe artwork of Chris Ofili and study how shoes have been represented in art by different artists.
• To know that PVA glue will harden, and can be combined with tissue paper to use as sculptural material.
• Understand the translucent nature of tissue paper.

Key Skills

Textiles-Natural Applique/Hessian Leaf overlay

• Use dyeing techniques to colour fabrics.
• Use applique techniques, both glueing and sewing, to create a natural form artwork.
• Use knowledge of properties of fabrics (texture/colour/sheen/lustre) to create an overlayed textile collage.

 3D-Chris Ofili shoes/Alberto Giocometti figures/Tissue bowls and vases

• Use bending and twisting techniques to bend wire in a sculpture.
• Use modroc-learning to work quickly and smoothly.
• Use moulding and attaching techniques with clay.
• Use a mould to create a hardened sculptural form with PVA glue and tissue paper.

Key Vocabulary

Layering, Dye, Fabric, Texture, Sheen, Lustre, Textile, Applique, Sculpture, Modroc, Translucent, Mould, Moulding, Attaching