Lesson video

Hi, I am Miss Miah, and in today's lesson, we'll be thinking about ourselves, the places we know, and how we can turn those ideas into art.

We'll explore how artists share their lives through their work and how they use techniques like layering to make their art even more meaningful.

I'm really looking forward to seeing how you show your own story in your collage today.

Let's begin.

In this lesson, you will be able to show your personal geography through using collage.

Your keywords are on the screen now, and I'd like you to repeat them after me.

Identity.

Collage.

Fabulous.

Let's find out what these words mean.

Identity: who you are, and how you are different from others.

Collage: arranging different materials and sticking them together on a surface.

Let's move on.

I'd like you to repeat these key words after me: Layering.

Personal geography.

Fantastic.

Let's also find out what these words mean.

Layering: putting different things on top of each other in your artwork, such as colours, shapes, or textures.

Personal geography: a way of showing special places and journeys from your own life.

Let's move on.

Now, this lesson is all about personal geography.

We've got two lesson cycles here.

Our first lesson cycle is to do with your own personal geography, and then we're going to move on to identity through collage.

Let's get started.

Personal geography means the special places in your life and the journeys you have made.

It is where you have been, what is important to you, and how those places make you feel.

Ooh! You can see here that Jun really likes the place that he's imagining.

Is there a place that you've been to that you feel that is important to you? A place that's really important to me is Bangladesh.

My parents are from there, and I visited when I was younger.

I loved spending time with my family.

We would talk, laugh, and share delicious meals together.

I remember the beautiful nature: green fields, tall palm trees, and rivers that sparkled in the sunlight.

When I think about Bangladesh, I feel happy, calm, and connected to my family's history.

Do you have an important place that you can remember? How did it make you feel? Have a think.

Arpita Singh is an artist who represents her identity and personal geography through her art.

What could these images tell us about her identity and personal geography? Hmm.

Have a think.

Jun and Sam are discussing what they think the images might represent.

Jun says, "The house could represent where she has lived or her family." Sam says, "The suitcase could represent living or visiting in different places.

Sam and Jun decide to research Arpita Singh and find out more about her identity and personal journey.

She includes places she has lived or visited in her art.

She's influenced by Bengali folk art.

Her experiences, including moving to different places, appear in her artwork.

She was born in West Bengal, India.

Some people may have similar personal geography to you.

Others may have different personal geography.

You might find some things in my personal geography feel the same as yours, like enjoying nature or spending time with family, even if the places are different.

And when we share our personal geographies, we can discover new places, new traditions, and even new foods we've never tried before.

Over to you.

Arpita Singh is she influenced by: A, Bengali folk art; B, British folk art; C, Brazilian folk art; or D, Bangladeshi? What do you think? Once you've got the answer, click play.

But you can pause the video now.

So what did you get? If you got A, Bengali folk art, you are correct.

Well done.

Arpita Singh is influenced by Bengali folk art.

Let's move on.

Jun has chosen some images from magazines to represent his personal geography.

Talk to a partner about what his images may represent.

Jun explains his chosen images to Sam.

"The kangaroo represents my trip to Australia to see my family.

The waves represent my family walks along the beach." Oh, that's lovely.

"The train represents my journey to school.

The winter scenery represents my favourite season.

The jigsaw represents spending time with my sister and playing games." When representing personal geography through their art, artists also consider different colours to represent their journey.

Now, artist Arpita Singh uses soft pinks, blues, and bold reds to express emotions and memories from different parts of her life.

Jun and Sam are remembering how different colours can represent different feelings.

So we've got red, we've anger and love.

Then, when we move into orange, yellow, and green, these could represent excitement.

Green and turquoise could represent calm.

Then we move onto our blues and purples, which could represent worry, sadness, wisdom, or pride.

Over to you.

Personal geography are the special places in your ____ and the journeys you have made.

Is it: A, sketchbook; B, life; C, mind; or D, school? You can pause the video here and click play when you've got the answer.

So what did you get? If you got B, life, you are correct.

Personal geography are the special places in your life and the journeys you have made.

Well done.

Let's move on.

For this task, you will be using magazines, newspapers, or the internet to select images that represent your personal geography and identity.

This could include images that represent: where you live, have lived or visited, your feelings about these places, your interests.

So you can pause the video here.

Off you go.

And when you're ready to rejoin us, click play.

So how did you do? Well, you may have chosen images like this.

Jun says, "I chose images with greens and blues to represent the world, nature, and feeling calm." Well done for having a go.

Let's move on.

So now we are going to be looking at identity through collage.

Let's begin.

Hmm.

Have a look at this image.

What can you see in this collage? There are lots of different images and papers used in this artwork.

The artist has layered the collage by putting different things on top of each other, such as colours, shapes, or textures.

When creating a collage, artists use layering to add more meaning to their artwork.

Artists may layer different: colours, textures, images, drawings, paintings.

What can you see in this image here that's layered? Have a think.

Well, I can see that there are different images that have been layered, as well as drawings on top, and a little bit of painting as well.

Artists might use textures such as: crumpled-up or ripped paper, card or tissue, painted papers, fabric.

Jun starts his collage by creating a background.

That's a really lovely water wash here.

Here we can see that Jun has used different colours.

Jun says, "I used watercolour to paint the background with blues, greens, oranges, and yellows to represent nature and watching sunsets with my family." We can see that Jun has really thought about the colours that he's chosen to use for his water wash.

Jun then crumples tissue paper and adds another layer using PVA glue.

That's really interesting.

Over to you.

When creating a collage, artists use layering to add more ____ to their artwork.

Is it: A, hard work; B, colour; or C, meaning? What do you think? You can pause the video here and click play when you're ready to continue.

So what did you get? If you got C, meaning, you are correct.

When creating a collage, artists use layering to add more meaning to their artwork.

Let's move on.

Jun rips and cuts his images to add more texture.

He's cut two images, and then he's chosen to tore the image as well and layer them on top of each other.

So we've got the cutting here and the ripping there, and actually, both look really good together because of the effect that he's gone for.

Jun starts to place the images down onto his page.

Should Jun stick the images down straight away? What do you think? Jun experiments with different compositions before sticking the images down, and that's really important.

So we can see one composition here where he's placed the images like this, and then we can see another composition here.

This time, I've noticed that the train isn't facing downwards; it's facing upwards, and the layering of the images are different as well.

So it's up to Jun to decide which composition he'd like to go for, and then he can stick down his images.

So which composition do you prefer and why? Now remember, there's no right or wrong answer.

It's simply your choice as an artist and the effect that you want to have on your viewer.

Jun decides on the composition he likes the most and sticks the collage down.

Over to you.

True or false? When creating a collage, you stick everything down straight away.

Is this true, or is this false? You can pause the video here and click play when you're ready to rejoin us.

So what did you get? If you got false, you are correct.

And this is because it is important to try different compositions before you stick the collage down so that you are happy with how it looks.

Well done if you got that correct.

Let's move on.

For this task, you are going to create a collage to represent your personal geography and identity.

I'd like you to consider: layering, texture, the colours that you use, and the composition.

So, where will you be placing your images before you stick them down? You can pause the video here and click when you've completed the task.

Off you go.

Have fun.

So here is an example of personal geography through collage.

We can see that the composition looks like this, and the choices made to layer certain images in particular ways.

The use of colour.

Layering the different images.

And texture.

So we can see here that that texture there probably doesn't feel as smooth; it's quite bumpy, and it adds to the overall effect of the composition.

We're now at the end of the lesson.

Well done for creating your collage.

So to summarise, you now understand that identity is who we are and what we care about.

Artists share their lives through their artwork.

When creating a collage, artists use layering to add more meaning to their artwork.

And lastly, personal geography is all about you and the places that are important in your life.

Thank you so much for joining me in this lesson.

I really hope you enjoyed creating your own geography collage, and that you look forward to joining me in the next lesson.

Bye!.