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2. Welcome Thank you for using this pre-visit resource.
We believe this will help strengthen student learning leading up to and during your gallery visit.

3. Copies of the world Te Tuhi Pre-visit lesson 1
Copies of the world lesson 1

4. Welcome to Copies of the world
During the next few lessons we will be exploring…
Positive and negative space
Copy vs Original
Welcome…
The Art of Casting
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5. Let’s start this lesson by exploring “Postive and negative space”.
Let’s start this lesson by exploring “Positive and negative space”
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6. If we think about an object say a chair or stool,
we can see there are positive and negative spaces.
What is negative and positive space?
Let’s take a look…
What is negative and positive space?

7. The stool has become white. This tells us that this is positive space.
Here is a stool…
Let’s turn the lights off to help
see where the positive and
negative spaces are.
Everything around the stool is black. This tells us that this is negative space.
The chair is white, which tells us that this is positive space.
Everything around the chair is black, which tells us that this is negative space.
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8. To help remember I was told…
“for every positive shape there is a negative space surrounding it”.
For every positive shape, there is a negative space surrounding it.
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9. Let’s look at some complicated shapes and
find the positive and negative space.
car
Where would the positive space be in this picture?
The positive space is the car which would mean
the space around the car is the negative.
Let’s try another picture…
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Looking at this night time
photograph, where would the
positive space be in this picture?
The sky tower and surrounding
buildings become the positive
space in this picture.
Which means the night sky is the
negative space.
Let’s try another picture…
Sky tower
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11. The stationary makes up the
positive space.
Looking at this photograph,
where would the positive spaces
be in this picture?
Which means the green table is the negative space.
Let’s take a look at how negative and positive space is used to make art…
Stationary
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12. The dark buildings and cars are the positive space and sky in the
Peter Wegner
Artist Peter Wegner takes photographs of tall buildings with the sky in the centre.
The dark buildings and cars are the positive space and sky in the
background is the negative space.
When showing his photographs Peter likes to display them upside down.
This creates interesting shapes and changes in the image and landscape.
The sky originally negative, now appears as positive space.
The buildings which were positive, now appear as negative space.
Peter’s photographs use positive and negative space to help us see the world in a different way.
The photograph now makes us look at the shape of the sky,
which now looks like a tall building made of sky.
Can you find the positive space in both photographs?
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13. the space around it is the negative space.
Rachel cast the inside space of a room. In the front of the sculpture you can see where the fireplace would have been.
Rachel cast the space underneath wooden seats.
Rachel Whiteread
Rachel cast the inside of an entire house!
Here is a stair case made from wood. The stair case is the positive space and
the space around it is the negative space.
Rachel is interested in making the negative space become positive by filling it
with concrete. First Rachel covers all entry points with wood and nails. She
then fills the negative space with concrete and waits for it to dry.
Once the concrete dries Rachel then pulls away the wooden walls and
staircase, leaving a concrete cast of the negative space.
The negative space has now become the positive space.
Like artist Peter Wegner and his photographs, Rachel uses negative and positive
space to create art that makes us see things that we may not have seen at first.
Artist Rachel Whiteread creates large and unusual sculptures that look like the inside of buildings and houses.
With this artwork Rachel was interested in the negative space surrounding the staircase. She decided to fill and cast the negative space in concrete.
Here are a few more other artworks Rachel has made and cast in concrete.
Like the staircase she has changed the negative space into positive space.
How did she fill and cast the negative space around the staircase? Let’s take a look…
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14. As we have seen, positive and negative space can
play an important part in how we make art…
Let’s recap on what we have learnt so far…
Lets recap on what we have learnt…

15. What have we learnt so far?
Positive and negative space…
are two different spaces. Positive space is the physical shape of something and negative space is the space around it.
can appear reversed through photography like John Wegner’s upside down photographs.
What have we learnt so far?
can be made into a sculpture by casting the negative space like Rachel Whiteread’s sculptures.

16. In the next lesson we will explore “Copy vs Original”.
End of lesson