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Lord Grey Academy,
Years 10 and 12
Video capturing ink, pencil and pastel drawings on paper | duration: 1 minute
Using Rachel Jones’s work as a starting point, students from Lord Grey Academy explored scale and mark-making to approach ways of looking at Vincent van Gogh’s self-portrait and consider how they could respond creatively to visual, contextual and cultural sources of inspiration.
Playing with size and proportion, the group worked experimentally in The Courtauld’s Leon Kossoff Learning Centre, using a range of materials and paper sizes. The resulting studies range from abstracted drawings zooming in on Van Gogh’s brushstrokes to details collected around the Courtauld Gallery. They were then scanned and layered digitally to create this video.