Project: Printmaking – Organs of Life
Participants: Year 3/4 pupils
Partnering with: Lydgate J&I
Artist: Shelley Burgoyne
Science topic: Animals Including Humans
For our Animals Including Humans topic we have chosen to focus on the skeleton and its role. We will look at animals with and without skeletons, changing bodies, growth, muscles and teeth, and using the amazing body, skeleton and body parts to inspire a series of large and small printed artworks. Our specific link to the Change theme will be to incorporate research about changes that take place in our organs as they function and process the constituents that make us breathe, think, grow, move and digest. Our starting point will be to produce a life-size skeleton and body drawing as a group artwork. This will be developed with individual images of organs that will be printed using relief printmaking techniques and added into the drawing. As well as a composite group work we imagine creating a series of booklets of images and writing.