A-Level Art students exhibit at Leeds Art Gallery

A group of Brigshaw A level students attended a workshop at the Art Gallery in Leeds to create the basis for a student exhibition.

We were given the task of creating the skeleton which would form the base layer for an even larger piece of art work on the whole.

Our brief was minimal: we could use a wide range of materials to create anything we wanted taking inspiration from the fabulous work of Hughie O'Donoghue. We used card, acrylic paint, ink, tissue paper, and could even paint on the walls and the floor - essentially we could use any surface we wanted in the room to create this large piece of art.

As a group, we work very differently creating different styles of images: James Child used a projector to paint a portrait, Jamie Aldus created a bird cage which hung from the ceiling and Rosie Trugden painted a rather large face on the wall... just a taste of the artwork we created.

All the artwork provided a base layer other schools to paint over, remove, or just leave as they were. The end result: an open exhibition for the public to see. We went along and were pleased that other schools did follow our lead and used our work as the foundation for their art work.

By Jamie Aldus, Year 12