In Year 6, we have been learning about the life and work of Yinka Shonibare, a British-Nigerian artist, who has overcome disability to become a highly acclaimed artist, known for a variety of artistic techniques. We focussed on his collage work as inspiration for our own art work, in particular his piece called ‘Line Painting’.
We learned that Yinka Shonibare often chooses to use African fabrics for his mixed media work so we designed our own patterns and painted our own fabrics influenced by African fabrics.
Inspired by the work of Yinka Shonibare, we have created our own collages. Using the fabrics which we designed and painted as well as African fabric from Nigeria, old atlases and a range of other self-chosen materials, we created these fantastic artworks with the theme of ‘Identity’.
What does your collage say about you, Year 6?
Hope you had a nice time,Year 6
Nice artwork Year 6!
The Collage was enjoyable because we got to learn about Yinka Shonibare and even though he got paralysed when he was 18 that didn’t stop him which tells us not to give up . I also enjoyed the art because it was really fun making two designs of Fabric and using them on our collage , I was really happy with my fabrics and we got to use different material to make our collage!
Wow good work Y6!Keep the good work up!
My collage says that I love nature and animals.
My collage told that I came from France and I love Christmas and nature.
I had so much fun making my collage! My collage shows where I’m from, where I have lots of memories and my name!
My collage shows my identity and how I love nature and the world.
my collage showed my identity and how fun my class is and how i love the world.
I loved making the patterns on fabric because it was really fun and so easy to do. If I could I would definitely do it again.
I was not here for the collage but I would have enjoyed it.
I enjoyed doing a collage , since we created something about ourselves. In my collage I included the French flag as well as the fabric I made. I hope we can do this again soon.
My collage had some pictures from Ireland and Turkey. Ireland because it is where my family is from and Turkey because I go on holidays in the summer in Turkey. ☀
What my collage says about my identity is that I cut out certain shapes that relates to my likings. For example I cut out triangles as the triangle’s angles always add up to 180 degrees.
My collage is about my identity. I learnt that when he was 18 he was paralysed in one side
I absolutely loved this art lesson, because we all got to test different designs, and all stuck patterns and pictures onto a piece of fabric to represent the identity of ourselves!!!
My collage was about how I like nature. I found this very fun to make.
My collage had France and the United Kingdom as I was born in France and live in the UK. I really liked my line and triangle pattern.
The collage was very fun and Yinka Shonibare’s art was a very interesting topic to me.
This was so much fun . We got to make collages that were about Yinka Shonibare and about our cultures , this taught us how to be inspired.
the collage was sooooo fun I loved experiencing all the different materials and i learned so many things about Yinka Shonibare such as he wanted to explore many different cultures than just his home country through art.
It was so fun!! My collage says that I am from the UK. We learnt a lot – did you know that Yinka Shonibare was paralysed in his bottom half so he had to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair?
I loved doing the collage because i could put my own identity into an abstract artwork.
Making this collage was very fun as I got to make it all about me depending on the countries I chose to stick on the collage. I decided to stick on my home countries and every country I’ve been to, I made the background my favourite colour because that represents me.
I loved doing the collage it was very fun! My collage showed nature and animals because I love animals. Yinka Shonibare was paralysed but that didnt stop him from art.
I loved doing the collage because I like abstract and I showed my identity at the same time!
I had a lot of fun making those collages!! I got to make my own patterns and chose from a variety of others. This is my favourite piece of Y6 artwork. We took inspiration from a famous artist, Yinka Shonibare, who managed to produce wonderful artwork half paralysed!! he is a great role model, who shows as that we can do anything when we set our minds to it.
Making the collage was so much fun!!! My collage shows how happy and joyful I am, I am grateful for my friends, where I come from and that I like animals. This was a great project so thank you to the teachers organising it.
My collage says about me is how I think outside the box. It helps me to truly see how my creative side inspires me.
The theme for our collages was IDENTITY. We were allowed to cut up the out of date atlases and stick the countries that were special to us on. For example, I cut out Ghana because my friend is from that country.
it was good