Welcome to Maryhill High Media Arts College Art Department.
 
The Art Department at Maryhill is a popular and successful curriculum area with a total of four staff contributing to teaching throughout key stages 3, 4 & 5. Annual visits to galleries are an important feature of many visual arts courses with special opportunities regularly offered to our identified gifted & talented students; such as last summer’s trip to Tate Liverpool to see the Klimt retrospective and the group project to produce large murals for Kidsgrove train station.

Art is a key subject of the specialist school status and as such introduced Art – Photography courses, firstly at Advanced level in the 6th form and from last year at GCSE level too. The department is currently involved in helping to plan the whole school Media Arts event which will be held in the summer term ‘Da Vinci Day’.
Other important dates for the department calendar are 25th & 26th June when the whole of year 7 will be taken off timetable to undertake a special Art project entitled ‘My Journey’; students will have the opportunity to produce large scale designs working in groups of 5 or 6.

This year promises to yield excellent examination success for our students once more and we anticipate lots of smiles on results days in August.
Well done to the year 10 winners of the department’s ‘Olympic Coin Design’ Competition; their 50pence designs have been submitted to the National Royal Mint competition in London.

C G Christou
Head of Art
 

Community Arts Projects in Kidsgrove

 

A range of projects based around Kidsgrove Town Hall are presently ongoing involving several year groups from Maryhill. Read below to find out more.

Years 10 GCSE Art students and year 12 AS Photo students have been involved in completing 2 separate projects to generate art and photography work for display at Kidsgrove Town Hall.
Both projects focus on images of Kidsgrove locations such as The Victoria Hall, Mow Cop Castle, Harecastle Tunnel etc
Year 10 have produced 2 very large murals paintings in acrylic on canvas; their colour palette was inspired by the contemporary German artist Jan Neuffer, famous for his images of Berlin.
C.Christou, Head of Art
 
Councilors have visited the AS group before xmas to explained their ideas to students.
They will need to re-visit to look at progress, taking place after half term.
Then we can hopefully select images that are suitable and plan in detail the exhibition at town hall.
S. Austin, Art Dept

Watch this space for more details and update in the coming weeks.