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http://www.natre.org.uk/spiritedarts/. Assessment Task Pick one of the topics below and express your thoughts on it using artistic means You must include a written piece of information to go with your work.
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Assessment Task Pick one of the topics below and express your thoughts on it using artistic means You must include a written piece of information to go with your work
Option 1 - Where is God Today?In this theme, pupils are invited to think about the question 'Where is God Today?' Psalm 42 asks this question, and different people answer it in different ways. Many pupils will have their own answers. Agnostics and atheists may say 'we don't know' or 'nowhere'. Winning work in this area will mix strong and artistic images with theology, seeking, sensing or listening to God creatively. Argumentative work is as powerful as personal and reflective work. Pupils' own views, and the answers of religion, both have a place. Over the years this has been our most popular theme: this year we have twisted it with the word 'today'. A focus on the 'now' is good.
Where Is God Taking Us?Jake GoddardAged 13 My picture shows my main question for the subject of God. I'm an agnostic and I don't know whether there is a God or not, but one thing I do believe in is that some things happen for reasons, and I have put this into my drawing. "Where is God taking us?" focuses less on the existence of God and more on is purposes and what he plans to do with us. The long road leading over the horizon with the date along the side represents the time stream that that the creator makes for us. We can see somewhat into the future and predict certain occurrences over a few years, but beyond that we can't see what is happening or what the person in the welding mask is making. This person in the welding mask may appear to say that I believe that God is creating fate, but through the concealment of the face you can see that I don't know what it is or what it looks like. Yes, it could be God, or it could just be represent a natural figure, such as mother nature. If fate was caused by a natural figure that works only by a balanced series of chances that eventually collect together to form one outcome. The person in the mask is only a representation of fate, and because I am agnostic I can decide neither.
Walk in the WoodsEilishMarronAged 14 In the assessment we were asked to create a piece of artwork in response to the question where is God? So I used my young photographer of the year picture, which I think helps explain where I think God is. I believe that God is where you want him to be. God is where you ask him to be and where you need him to be, you just need to ask him. I think that God is a part of everyone that believes in him. But I also think that he is in heaven to help the dead. So my art work shows that anyone can be your God. My father is being my Brother's God or my Brother is being my Dad's God. It is like being a helping hand almost. Someone to show you the right path and to keep you on the good tracks. I have tried to show my thoughts in the picture by capturing a special moment that is not an everyday picture; this is because it is in woodland and of two people that are special to me. So where is God in all the suffering? I believe that God is where he needs to be and that he can't always stop things happening, but he can change them, or prevent things from happening after.For example, devastating recent events in Japan; God couldn't prevent the earthquake but he could have stopped the tsunami afterwards. I believe that everything happens for a reason and that bad things happen in order for the good ones to happen.
Your Request Has Been DeniedBy Penny, HandsworthAge 15 'Your request…' represents the feeling that God, if he exists, is unreachable and hidden. At a time when we need God most, such as the peril the girl is facing, we reach out. No one grabs our hand. The masses of paper falling from the sky are a suggestion that our prayers never reach anyone. Cast up to the sky they fall back down again. The phrase 'your request has been denied', written on every piece of paper, is a suggestion that I can’t reach God. I feel there is no personal bond, no personal response to my prayers. All we receive is a weak cover up of the truth, and automated message: your request to be happy, to be alone, to do well, to get better, has been denied. If this is what happens, I feel it is very unlikely that God exists. This is what my paint and ink expresses. The different coloured lines represent movement, the different feelings the girl experiences during each prayer, each denied request.
Seek And You Will Find HimBy Rebecca, Leicester Age 15 Where is God? Seek and you will find him. I depict a girl looking at her shadow. Newspaper cuttings in the shadow speak about the everyday: terror, murder, death. Jesus stands behind her, surrounded by light and colour. I put cuttings from newspapers in the shadow, to do with what you see and hear about on the news every day: terror, murder, death, tension, crisis. It's easy to focus on the shadow in life, as it's presented so frequently. If you think of God, it's in the situations when good things happen. But in the shadow, God is there. In the most war torn area people's lives can be transformed because of him. The image of Jesus behind the girl and the colour that surrounds them both illustrates that even where things look dark, God is working there. There is light even in the shadow.
Option 2 - A Fairer World / A just worldThis theme is about how religions seek justice. Pupils might show a faith based charity in action: Islamic Relief, Christian Aid or one of many others. Or they might give an artistic reflection on their own hopes for 'making poverty history' or 'seeing justice for all people'. Good work will express clearly a link between faith and action, between the teaching of sacred texts and a modern problem, or between prayer for peace and action for peace. This theme encourages aspiration towards a just world!
Positive Action Can Change The WorldMatilda & JessicaAge 13 We aimed to keep this design simple. Christian Aid stands with the poorest people of the world to end poverty and injustice, regardless of faith or ethnicity. We tried to convey our message by showing that behind the bombs and talk of terrorism it is possible for people to share and unite. The explosion hides clasped hands. Positive action can bring a fairer world. Money, time, energy, love: be willing to share.
Injustice JigsawLucy , SurreyAge 12 This injustice jigsaw uses pictures from the internet that give examples of injustice throughout the world. Poverty, starvation, no access to healthcare in developing countries, children used in war or cheap labour and unequal distribution of money. If there was justice in the world my puzzle would be solved and the pieces would be joined together to show people, communities and nations working and living together to help fight injustice. I have also shown some of the organisations that fight injustice through religion, prayer, charities like 'Make Poverty History', and the human ability to work together.
Option 3 - Hope for the World Some people see hope for the world in human genius. Others hope for co-operation, an end to starvation, peace between religions or the power of love. Most religious people have a spiritual hope for the future – and non-religious people do too. In this theme, think hard about the idea of hope – where does hope come from, what does it say, and can we rely on it? You might use a line from the scriptures of one religion, or an idea from a leader or hero. Then turn your thought into an image, a digital video, cartoon, model or sculpture. Show us your own genius as you express your own idea about hope for the world.
Option 4 - Beginning / Ending Religions like to tell humans about the beginning and the end of the world. What happens in between matters too. This theme invites young artists to look at what religions say about any beginning or ending and reflect for themselves about how to express their ideas. Did the world start with Big Love or a Big Bang? Will it end with a whimper, or at the gates of Paradise? In this theme, young artist are invited to think about the beginning and end of life (babies and funerals?), about the beginning and end of the world, or about the beginning and ending of a particular experience or phase of life. Make sure your work has some exciting connections to religious or spiritual ideas.
Help for the Written Side My picture is based on the theme of... The title I've chosen is... This picture is all about... This is a spiritual picture because... I've tried to show my thoughts / ideas / feelings by... To make the image, I used... I'm proud of my work because... The main point of the image is... I've thought a lot about [theme], and would like to say...
