Art Week in Year 6

For our Art Week this term, Year 6 were exploring the work of Yinka Shonibare.

Yinka is a London born, Nigerian artist who uses the technique of batiking to create installations that reflect traditional African patterns and colours. We started our Art Week learning about Yinka’s life and his inspirations before beginning to look at the concept of geometry and pattern he used in his work. We explored and evaluated some of Yinka’s pieces of art work before having a go at replicating some of the patterns that we may see in his work. We were able to use batik equipment to practice our batiking work before planning our own final patterns. Here you can see our work from the week …