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Sandwich Secondary School Art Analysis

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Throughout my four years of Sandwich Secondary School art classes, I have learned, grown, and found my style as an artist.
My work displayed here, called Looking Back for the Future, was actually my final project in my grade twelve art class, created for ACWR’s “Working With The Environment” show. We were instructed to create a piece that was reflective of working/labour and/or an environmental issue, so I combined my love for portraiture with my love of history, and created depictions of Victorian era child labour.
To begin this piece, I researched the topic and chose three different jobs that children were often forced to do in the 1800’s—chimney-sweeping, bird chasing, and sewing textiles in mills. I also researched artists to draw inspiration …show more content…

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The goal of this work is to remind viewers of the disgraceful child labour of the past, as well as the unjust labour that is still occurring today, in order to spark the ever-important conversation of change.
As a child, I was always considered artsy. Between doodling, sketching, and making videos, I loved to get my hands dirty and create new things with my friends, all of which really took form in ninth and tenth grade at SSS, where I took my first art classes and created my first real works—my first portrait and my first short film. However cringe-worthy now, I’m thankful, as those experiences really sparked my passion for creating art.
Over the past four years, portraiture has become my favourite type of art, as well as pen and ink, charcoal, and pencil becoming my preferred media. I find something so fascinating and fun about building up a lifelike face, or hand, or body from a 2D sheet of paper; it’s challenging and different every time.
I love to capture my favourite people—musicians, actors, friends, family—and I have also just begun to draw

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