Sixth Year with Style...

An Advanced Higher Art & Design group from Strathaven Academy, South Lanarkshire was in for the day today, and on arrival they wanted to show us one of the pupil's nails... Fabulous nails!

Eilidh had painted her nails with images of scul?tures by George Wyllie. Amazing detail and that Wyllie-esque humour in the way her two thumbnails join together to make the Berlin Burd, east hand and west hand. A Burd is Not a Stone is a favourite quotation in the Strathaven Sixth Year class.

Left hand has the Paper Boat sailing from the Clyde to New York, across her fingers.

Right hand has the Clyde Clock and Monument to Maternity.

This is so quirky, so Wyllie and apparently so Eilidh. (She has her own enterprise... enail - that's e for Eilidh.)

The Strathaven pupils were full of ideas, enthusiasm and worked hard all day, researching, scripting and rehearsing what they had discovered and written. Each of them took responsibly for an area of the exhibition and scripted the narration for an audio guide, which will also feature the haiku poems written and recorded by pupils in AH English, Hillhead HS and the Paper Boat arrangement recorded by pupils in music John Paul Academy, both Glasgow.

No two days are the same - that's for sure - as pupils in different stages and from different authorities create their own work as a reaction to learning about George Wyllie's work.

Fabulous nails, Eilidh. Great job on the research and writing for the recordings today, Chloe and Kathryn. Excellent photo for today's blip, Misa. (She took it and created it on her phone.) Well done S6 Strathaven Academy!