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SACART WEEK 10
Year 9 - ‘Poetic Landscapes’

Our busy Year 9 artists have been working on a variety of artworks since starting our new unit - ‘Poetic Landscapes’ a few weeks ago. The purpose of this unit is to introduce a wider range of art mediums, both wet and dry as well as unconventional materials. As an introduction to mixed media artworks, our students were introduced to the artist John Wolseley. After our ‘landscape study’ around the SAC environment, we came back into the classroom and students transformed the feelings on the day along with the observations into a mixed media artwork.

Following this, students were introduced to the concept of art being ephemeral. We studied the artworks of artist Andy Goldsworthy, as well as other artists who create site specific installations using landscape as inspiration. Students were then challenged with the task of creating their own ephemeral sculptures. At first this was met with curiosity and confusion as students questioned why we would make artworks that didn’t last. We discussed the concept of re-interpreting our landscape and forcing our audiences to see the existing landscape in a different way. We spent yet another lesson outdoors (so blessed by the beautiful spring weather!) and collected natural materials along our walks. Realising the quad didn’t have too many natural materials, Kerolos suggested we take a walk to the oval. The rest of the class quickly realised this was a great idea as they discovered leaves of all different colours and sizes. Ben collected multiple fallen branches; Janaya and Jayda located beautiful flowers; Callum and Sydnere found a rock which we decided wouldn’t work so well for this task. Rachel was in her element, collecting many different colours from nature and working well with her group to construct their sculpture. Others went off on their own and used this time to observe how they could ‘rearrange’ the environment.

The students achieved interesting artworks and worked outside of the comfort zone. This artwork has led to further discussions around the role of photography and video as well as using non-art materials to convey a concept. This has given the students lots to consider for their upcoming assessment task where they will reflect a location of their choice through their art.

Mrs Claudia Harris
Leader of Learning - Visual Arts

Year 7 - ‘Where the Land Meets the Sea’

Year 7s have been busy bees this term planning their oil pastel artwork of a Daintree Rainforest animal or a sea creature from the Great Barrier Reef. Students were faced with the challenge of drawing on a coloured sheet of paper which allowed students to utilise techniques such as layering and blending to enhance their oil pastel artworks. As the term draws to a close, numerous Year 7s are nearing the finish line of their drawings and are looking absolutely incredible!

Year 8 - ‘Telling Tales’

Year 8s have been heavily focused and passionate about their current artmaking task; to create a Reg Mombassa inspired large scale acrylic artwork inspired by issues faced by Australian society. The planning stages have generated heated discussions around ongoing and current global and national topics. Popular issues students have selected were the impacts of COVID19, mental health, pollution, racism and climate change. It is evident in the planning of their artworks, many students have expressed passion and concern for their chosen issue where the challenge in Visual Arts is how they can represent it in their work. Along with their concept, students had to implement elements of Mombassa’s artworks, Surrealism and painting techniques learnt in class. Over the past week, students have begun painting on mixed media painting, officially beginning their final artwork. Stay tuned for the finished products!