news: playing paper, stone, scissors – Project 360

It can be that such schools art's projects are restricted not only in the time available within the school timetable but also in purely where and what sort of access the participants can have in practical terms. It may be a great idea to explore perhaps perspective, or distance or perhaps social themes but it can be that everything which the children create must come from and within the confines of the school grounds. Such limitations I try and turn to an advantage allowing the participants themselves to create environments and references which are directly available to them. 

For part of this project, I'm looking to explore background, center ground and foreground, creating images using these elements to underline an idea or theme. To open out the possibilities available I thought the use of Photo-Montage would free the pupils from pratical constraints, allowing hopefully their imagination to run free. It's generally 'not my thing' you could say, but it may prove exciting for the pupils and it's position in modern art production has been in recent year underlined with John Stezaker receiving the Borse Photography Prize in 2012 for his college work. Some examples of photographic montage work to get the mind thinking…….

 John Stezaker work which received the Borse Photography Prize

John Stezaker, 2012

John Heartfields political photomontages

 again John Heartfield

 Alexandra Bellissimo

Photomontage would allow the possibility of bringing together in a single image, separate elements under a single theme regardless of scale or practicality 

Even using a single image multiple times can create a new and enhanced image - here Mary Miss has strengthened an architectural sense of depth