Remote Art Task: Experimenting at Home with Limited Materials

In this task, your students will be encouraged to consider the “non-art” materials that they have access to in their home environment.

After gathering a range of materials, (or just one if that’s all they can get their hands on - a newspaper will do nicely!), they will apply actions from Richard Serra’s verb list to generate experimental results.

Encourage your learners to consider the double meaning of some of the verbs, and to use a dictionary to define the words they do not understand, rather than going for the first, easy option.

Using photography as a means of recording their experiments, the students should later select and edit their most successful images into some sort of coherent collection.

Examples are provided from both Richard Serra and my own experiments, and a list of discussion questions are provided to inspire and challenge your learners.

This activity was originally created for a Level 3 Art Foundation group who are working remotely, and took 3 hours to complete.
The download contains a 2-page PDF which is easily emailed or shared in Teams to help your remote sessions run smoothly.

I hope you find this resource to be useful!
Best wishes :-)
Hannah