Searching for Creativity Project at Q3 Academy.
The "Searching for Creativity" project has its original roots in my achieving what I had wanted to do in my own professional career. I had worked in many industries over the past twenty years including Children's TV design, the Computer Games Industry and Feature Film Special Effects, and reached a stage where I wanted to encourage the next generation of creatives to follow their dreams and ideas through to reality.
After several conversations with colleagues who themselves were teachers, I looked into developing and crystallising the creative processes that had helped me in my career so I could pass them on to students and teachers as well, for their own creative development.
Skipping forward after almost two years of research and development I ended up revisiting my old high school, now Q3 Academy, and talking with one of the teachers, Steve Arrandale, who taught me art some twenty years or so ago. It was great to speak with him again and I'm glad to say neither of us looked a day older!
Many lengthy conversations and meetings later, Steve introduced me to Mr T Harris (Strategic director - Discovery) and Mr M Roberts (Personalised Learning Director) for Design and Technology, and the results of those initial discussions spawned the Searching for Creativity project that has run now for approximately ten weeks.
I had already decided to develop creativity seminars and workshops for schools, academies, colleges and universities, so the timing was just right to introduce some of the students at Q3 to some radical and industry insider's methods and techniques for boosting their creative potential.
Put simply, the Easy Art Pro courses as they became named, were designed to demonstrate that with specific creative nurturing and encouragement based on real world experience, students could surpass the levels they thought themselves capable of.
The fruit of the last ten week's work is visible in the images the students have developed, but where the most important part lies is in how they have progressed in terms of their creative thinking. So much of creative education can become linear and prescriptive, and to a point that is acceptable and necessary where direct observation skills and understanding form are required, but as I tell students in my presentations, the second most commonly asked question from clients in the commercial art world after "Can you do it cheaper?" is "Can the design be original and not look like anything else available?"
That last part is a tall order and there is where the difference between standard and advanced creativity lies.
My intention with the Easy Art Pro courses is to push that gap between standard and advanced open to allow the truly original and innovative ideas to flow. Obviously spawning excellent grades and academic achievement for students and schools alike, and proving the theory that inspiration and ideas are everywhere, you just have to learn how to look!
If you would like to speak to Richard please contact him on 07935 979009 or at his website
http://www.easyartpro.com
Amazing photography results at Q3 Academy!
The photo imaging group at Q3, lead by Steve Arrandale, have produced some stunning imagery based on the subject of “Junk”. Their starting points were piles of rubbish they had bought in themselves and then photographed in all manner of ways, finding their own autonomous vision.
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