Year 7 ‘Voyages’ Message in a Bottle Art extended homework

Ahoy Matey’s!
As part of your Voyages unit you are required to complete an extended homework.
The challenge is to make a message in a bottle (no bigger than A4 once it is made) that is
about a real or imaginary SOS from the ocean. The style of your bottle could be influenced
by the work of another artist.

Things to consider:
1. What type of SOS will your message represent – plastic environmental crisis,
global warming, fishing stocks, whale hunting, clean beaches?
2. What type of message in a bottle you are going to make and how you are going to
make it? What objects could you use?
3. What type of plastic/paper/card/ junk you will use to construct it (clear, colour, a
map, an image, text …)
4. What could go on or in the bottle to illustrate the message theme (images, text such
as words, numbers, phrases, poetry, facts etc)
5. What media you could use to decorate the paper you use/ the message or bottle
itself (drawing, collage, dry/wet media, photocopy, digital manipulation, stitching...)

See page 2 for some examples to inspire you.

Artists you may wish to look at with a particular focus on using bottles:
Yinka Shonibare Tony Craig Claes Oldenburg
David Edgar Annette Messager Joseph Cornell
Barry Rosenthal

See page 3 for examples of artists work.

To complete this task:

Write a statement (maximum A4) explaining what your message in a bottle is about.
Hand your statement and bottle in to your art teacher by the deadline they give you.

Bon Voyage!
ARTISTS

IDEAS TO
INSPIRE YOU
 Yinka Shonibare Tony Craig Claes Oldenburg

David Edgar Annette Messager Joseph Cornell Barry Rosenthal