No Frame Art & Education
Authentic creative process stemmed from the U.K art education system.
Student-centred teaching and learning
Critical & Contextual study
Project - based learning
Collecting 1st-hand resources
Thought provoking discussions based on individual idea
Closely tailored, high quality workshops with a wide range of materials and techniques
practice issue-based art in a contemporary way
In creating personalised, original outcomes.
Young Artist (16-18): Portfolio for Universities in the U.K and abroad
8 - 12 weeks per project
10 hours in 2 weeks
This course is designed to help students develop the skills needed for progression to top-ranking universities in the UK and abroad. The skills learned can support students’ pursuit of a wide range of creative subjects and open doors to careers in the arts, design, film, craft and architecture.
With 13 years of teaching experience of A-Level and IB art & Design, students benefit from tailored, high quality workshops, rich resources and assessment examples to develop their understanding of the creative process. Students are guided to bring their true interests and valued qualities in their projects. High tutor to student ratio in a supportive learning environment is favourable in this authenticity personalised approach.
Throughout the process, students can develop resilience by handing diverse creative challenges and practice ‘research purposefully’ skills. Undoubtedly this is an important key to success, not only developing portfolio and preparing interviews, but also their continuation of education in Universities of their choice.
Students are offered to take opportunities and deepen contextual understanding on how delicate issues are expressed in sophisticated ways and will be able to grow analytical skills in creating personalised body of work. Innovative, broad yet highly intentional artistic experiments with a range of materials and techniques will be led further discovery to refine and modify works to be able to speak each young artist’s own voice effectively with quality.
This is an opportunity to go through a true transformation: to be able to think and work like an artist and discover their authentic artistic nature. Learn to value the diversity of their own and peers’ experience and leave with a comprehensive understanding of people and communities beyond their immediate experiences.
Young Artist (7-12), (13-15)
6 / 12 weeks per project.
1-2 hours a week
This is to help young artists retain and develop various art making abilities and sustain their enthusiasm for self-expression and imagination within an artist-teacher led environment.
Students are guided ways of interpreting the theme by looking at artists’ works as good examples. They learn how to access relevant resources, moreover, to be able to explain and use their learnings to develop their work.
Array of the themes offer students to explore various artistic approaches by examining how artists saw the world and expressed in their unique way through cubism, abstract expressionism, modernism, surrealism etc. Also students will be able to discuss current issues, including gender, race, physical & mental health condition issues to be able to see their own and other’s life with more empathy and positivity.
Students progress their artistic practice in combination of learning careful observation skills and expressive visual language skills with range of materials and techniques including, drawing, painting, mixed media, printing, 3D, photography, textile etc.
Students are encouraged to take creative challenges to serve their curiosity, to be willing to work with commitment and search for solutions collaboratively.
The skills learned can also support students’ pursuit of a wide range of creative subjects in school and further education in the arts, design, architecture, language and science.
Day workshop
3-5 hours a day
Invest your day to this course to experience the creative art making process. A highly recommended programme for organizations whether that are known as art-related or not, but the ones wish to stimulate fresh, creative approach in your job environment.
grow vital qualities such as high level thinking skills, critical approach, problem solving skills and team work. This implies high achievement in school, competitions and progression to universities and careers in the creative industries and/or as an art consumer who is able to actively engage with art in their life.
Furthermore this creative process and its key skills are universal and greatly beneficial to other specialism and fields. CREATE: in the extensive context, it means to communicate thoughts and intentions those are ‘invisible’ with the most suitable ‘visible’ outcomes. Everything around us has been created with its needs and ideas, including science, maths, language, politics and business etc. Through purposeful research, thought provoking conversations and analytical approach, the creative process teaches how to think creatively first, followed by how to develop the initial ideas and outcomes further. The brilliance and originality of the outcome could be resulted differently from the degree of idea. Evidently this experience grows some of the most exclusive and highly employable graduates and specialists in the world.
Various backgrounds of participants’ specialism, work as strength in the session. Each can bring diverse perspective to the topic, interpreting their own unique ways and inspiring other peers and colleagues. Even without prior knowledge in art subjects, participants are able to enjoy learning and testing various art materials and techniques that is related to their needs.
The course contains: generating ideas with open and closed questions, accessing and explaining visual, written and other resources to develop the participant’s own and or their team’s work. With rich visual examples of relevant selection of artists’ work, participants are supported to take an experimental and analytical approach to their work and can develop a critical and open-minded view.
By the end of the day, each participant could create an outcome that speaks to their idea. The key skills can serve back to their specialism and other subjects. Evidently, this way of thinking procedure grows some of the most exclusive and highly employable graduates and specialists in the world.
equip art students to use the subject as a tool for individual expression and
“Creativity is essential in a global economy that needs a workforce that is knowledgeable, imaginative and innovative.”
TATE
Public Courses
6-12 weeks per project.
2 hours per week
Open to any student and art practitioner who wants to progress their artistic practice through a combination of tuition, tutorials and mentoring.
To take No Frame’s unique creative process to develop your skill and inspire ways to approach art
To create a portfolio of artwork for applications to postgraduate courses
To add more diverse genre of works to your professional portfolio
You want to return to your art practice after some time away
You are keen to fire up your art practice and create new habits, e.g. a daily sketchbook routine
You have a short period of time to concentrate on your creative practice and would like to benefit as much as possible from one term.
No Frame Art & Education
Authentic creative process stemmed from the U.K art education system
What do you do?
;Some examples of projects/ workshops
Drawing as a way of living
Drawing comes to naturally since young age and is fundamental to our learning, growth, and understanding of the world around us. Sometimes, it is misunderstood as a natural talent or become a standard, judging whether a person is ‘good’ at art. No Frame Art & Education believes however, art is a way of thinking and doing, rather than good at certain skill, also drawing itself has much deeper possibility in it.
In our sessions, students are encouraged to develop their observation skill so that the findings and realisations can be ‘recorded’ accurately on a picture plane. Drawing is a great tool to describe space and objects, test ideas, improve sense of aesthetics and express feelings. Experimentation with intuitive marks and different line qualities will allow more freedom to students to explore texture, shape, layering, blending as well as colour elements. Any soft or hard materials can be used for drawing, for example brushes, sticks, scrunched bubble wrap, fingers and engraving tools (printing) to search for the effect that is most suit to the artist’s intention.
Catered themes and carefully chosen artists’ work along with constant 1:1 tutorials and feedback as support, students will be able to develop their high-level thinking and visual language skills to express their concept with meaningful and creative art works.
This can mature ability to focus to the task and build individual’s self-esteem with confidence. The learned skills can serve all areas of art, design and craft, including digital art and 3D as well asother subjects in school life and other working environments.
Photography, photo manipulation & projection art
Photography has unique characteristic that can make an image with technological support and see the result instantaneously. As an artistic discipline, it is a great way to hone creative skills. With pacy speed, students are able to test ideas and learn elements of art, under close supervision and feedback which involves discussion, demonstration to assist to become better from.
The course is carefully curated and based around particular themes such as people-less portrait, ordinary and or extra ordinary, lost and found, movement etc. and related photographers’ work. It is devised to explore identity and various human condition issues to help to exercise students’ own critical thinking skills in developing their personalised body of work.
Students are offered to deepen their visual language skills: creating mood using light, dynamic use of framing and understanding rules of composition to successfully communicate their ideas through their photographs.
Our course gets more exciting and original as it explores further, using DIY filters, No-lens photography such as cyanotype and diverse ways of photo manipulation techniques, including chemical transfer printing. Vintage slide projector will be opening whole new possibilities in creating images with exclusively artistic effects by laying photographs, textured objects as well as hand writings and scratch marks.
Students will be introduced projection art and installation genre, all of which will enable them to put to use all the skills and knowledge they have acquired.
Make it
3D & Installation: Paper Construction/Deconstruction
This is one of the most remarkable workshops / projects in our courses, encouraging students to think out of the box when they approaching art, proudly, resulting in winning many prestigious awards including Royal Academy of Art.
Inspired by an exhibition, Slash: PAPER UNDER THE KNIFE (2009) by Museum of Arts and Design, students will be introduced to paper as a creative medium and source of artistic inspiration, examining the diverse use of the material in a range of art forms. With focused experiments and tailored feedback, students will be able to move on with more confidence and bring their true interests and valued qualities in their projects and develop their idea and skills further.
No Frame exemplify young artists’ work that revealed the intelligent and passionate exploration of paper by cutting, weaving, tearing, shredding and layering to tell a authentic story of their own: some hardship of emotional experience, fun yet critical observations of the world around them, myths, culture clashes and political issues which they experienced.
In the class, we gave 2 conditions -creative challenge- to students: the material (paper only) and 3D element. To fulfil these conditions, work involves interacting with different tools and media that requires searching for new ideas, courage to break out from a comfort zone and practice skills with patience to be able to strengthen hand-eye coordination. Hence students were enriched diverse problem solving skills which allowed them new creative workflows and expanded visual vocabulary to become a better communicator.
A wide range arts backgrounds such as illustration, game design, film, fine art sculpture, fashion, architecture as well as science, maths, language and history are benefitted from this experience.
“The experience was an eye opener to a whole new form of art that both enthuses the human sense of sight and feel. “
- Museum of arts and design
“This project has given new grounds to my ideas as an artist and also provided me with sense of adaptability in terms of using my surrounding materials as part of my art medium.”
Oheji Anthony UPELLE-ODOH (2021 - 2022)
Craft: Textile using tufting technique
The traditional textile techniques of weaving and embroidery offer exceptional quality with elaborate detail and diverse texture in 2D and 3D work. The creations are infused with warmth that enliven and enrich human life.
In this course, we want to showcase the diversity and expressive power of the handmade and suggest craft as one of the most exciting experimentation in art today. For example, tufting with a machine, offers faster working times and allows students to experiment with their ideas on a larger scale. This is a great compromise the characteristic of craft work that is time consuming and challenging to retain the skill set. Students are able to play with the diverse possibilities through materiality, from yarn to wasted plastic, exploring colour, surface, pattern, construction and finish, to develop their individual investigations further with excitement.
“This experience has given new grounds to my ideas as an artist and also provided me with sense of adaptability in terms of using my surrounding materials as part of my art medium.”
Oheji Anthony UPELLE-ODOH (2021 - 2022)
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