Artist Research
I did some research on a few different British artists to gain inspiration for workshop ideas at the school. The artists I looked at were Bridget Riley, Chris Ofili, Anish Kapoor, Yinka Shonibare and poet John Agard. Below is some of the research I did of them, with the writing coming from various articles and websites on the internet.

Bridget Riley is quite a well-known British artist who created dizzying "Op-art" pieces that play tricks on the viewers eyes. I thought she would be an interesting artist to look at as her art is quite accessible  yet still interesting. A nice idea would be to create simple optical illusion pieces which would likely be something the children haven't done before and be a nice fun challenge.

Chris Ofili is a well-known English artist and has a distinctive style uses many bright colours and lots of materials such as paint, glitter and collage. These are all playful and fun materials to work with and we could definitely use these with the crescent students. A lot of his work has strong links to culture, which means he would be a nice artist to potentially talk to the students about.

Yinka Shonibare is a British-Nigerian artist who's work often focuses on race and class and the perceived meaning of culture and nationality. The mediums he works in includes painting, sculpture, photography and film. His sculpture above was something I liked a lot. 

Anish Kapoor is a British-Indian sculptor and one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. His work is very minimalistic and conceptual and I think he would be an interesting artists for the primary school students to learn about. As his work has a lot of simple shapes we could also do an activity where the children try and make small scale versions of his sculptures using simple materials like clay and plasticine, which could even be painted when dry. 

John Agard is a poet, playwright, short story and children's writer. Below is one of his poems called "half-caste" which breaks down the outdated term. I thought he would be interesting to potentially look at as the children might want to incorporate words or phrases into their work, and different dialects and famous British sayings could be explored. 

Tony Cragg is a British sculptor and one of the world's foremost sculptors. He works with many materials such as stone, wood, glass, stainless steel, aluminium, cast bronze and cast iron, and found objects, from plastic consumer goods to rubbish from the streets. Some of his works that interested me in particular were the found objects pieces, which I found really innovative and environmentally friendly. I think it would be really fun to do a workshop with the kids where we give them random recyclables and have them create artwork from it.