Below : One of the drawings produced by Dulwich College pupils in workshops with Conrad Shawcross.
Work in Progress
During this year, pupils from Art and Science Societies have been working in collaboration with the artist Conrad Shawcross on a unique project: to design a significant sculpture for display in The Laboratory. Mr Harrison Pearce , President of the Union, gives an account of how this creative process has evolved
Bane 3
Mrs Kathryn Norton-Smith
T he amazing double act of Joe Bone and Ben Roe made a welcome return to the Edward Alleyn Theatre, staging the brilliant film noir and hardboiled detective story Bane 3 for all Year 9 students. Within seconds, the audience was engaged, entertained and loving the send-up of every American film noir gangster movie cliché. Joe Bone mines the Philip Marlowe/Sam Spade American gumshoe genre, playing all the roles from Bruce Bane, the lead character, to his nemesis, to a myriad of characters, male and female, along with props, narration, sound effects and cinematic devices. A chase down a city street involves not only the hunter and prey, but weather, traffic and all the people they pass along the way. Ben Roe’s music provided a compelling and evocative live soundtrack to underscore the action. Having performed several times at the College, the duo have become something of an annual fixture, and have developed quite a cult following among Dulwich boys past and present.
T hrough discussion, research and drawing workshops, a group of Dulwich College pupils from Years 9 to 13 has been working with Conrad Shawcross RA and Grimshaw Architects to create an artwork that will eventually descend through two floors of the James Caird Hall, at the heart of The Laboratory. The sculpture builds on Shawcross’s recent work exploring Platonic solids and he sees this commission as explicitly linked to the piece that will stand outside the new Crick Institute at St Pancras, which will be completed in October 2015. Shawcross says that the sculpture ‘is inspired by science and ideas of science and is also a metaphor for potential; the potential to grow, to take risks, to be bold and brave’. The finished work will also reflect the notion of a paradigm shift, making it emblematic of the audacity of imagination that has often jolted scientific enquiry forward and that will be fostered within The Laboratory at Dulwich College. The Laboratory itself has been conceived by Grimshaw Architects
Pictured : Joe Bone plays detective Bruce Bane (top); some of the clay heads made by every pupil and member of staff over the course of the week (middle); making the giant mushrooms (bottom).
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