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SACART WEEK 2

Operation Art Exhibition Opening
The Armoury Gallery Sydney Olympic Park

On Saturday 17th September, we had the pleasure of attending the opening of the 2022 Operation Art Competition. This year’s competition featured over 600 entries from 200 schools. Four of our students’ artworks were featured in this year’s exhibition with two awarded special selections.

Athieu Majok’s artwork, Masked Green House is selected as a PAW Pick; one of six examples of Operation Art entries used to illustrate a wide variety of teaching strategies.

Rabab Ganiwalla’s artwork, Vivid Peacock Extravaganza is one of six artworks given to the NSW Office of the Children’s Guardian (NSW OCG) to be exhibited in its offices for 12 months and later donated to regional hospitals.

It was wonderful to see our students’ artworks displayed amongst other wonderful Operation Art entries. We look forward to the framed artworks (except Rabab’s) returning to our school in the near future where we will have them prominently displayed. We hope that in the years to come we will add to them with many more future Operation Art artworks.

The exhibition remains open until the end of the month (30th October) and I highly encourage you to visit the exhibition to see these artworks in person.

2022 Operation Art Award Selections

Mrs Claudia Harris
Leader of Learning Visual Arts

Year 7 ‘World Heritage Site Animal Artworks’

Last term artists of year 7 chose an animal of their choice from either the Great Barrier Reef or the Daintree Rainforest. Students were asked to brainstorm, research, gather inspirational imagery as well as practice drawing and evaluate experimentation before developing a draft. Their draft artwork included a close up of their animal demonstrating blending, burnishing, scumbling and any other textural applications they may have learnt/discovered during this process. This term students have continued to work in order to complete their final works using oil pastel and coloured paper with consideration to the drafting stage and teacher feedback.

Giorgio Zerafa

Mikaela Hooper

Christian Espiritu

Jacinta Estrada

Sahas Shergill

Franzuel Azuruoleh

Angelina Chamoun

Stefany Yazgi

Meghan Bartlett

Vanessa Menon

Angela Sicat

Elijah Andrew

Year 8 ‘Mombassa inspired Artworks’

Artists of year 8 have completed their Mombassa artwork drafts and have been provided with feedback on their practice. Students have now begun to create their final work choosing either Painting or Digital Media to portray their chosen Australian issue (social, environmental, political etc.) whilst also using the techniques and style of Mombassa to communicate this issue. This term students have continued to work in order to complete their final works using painting techniques such as dry brushing, stippling, colour blocking etc. or drawing software such as Sketchpad, Procreate, Fresco etc.

Year 8 Finalised Mombassa drafts

Allistaire Reyes

Kyle Lo

Nikki Gasendo

Catharina Purwadi

Cayden Landrigan

Yak Yak

Year 10 ‘Beginning stages of our Self Directed BOW’

Artists of year 10 have recently pitched their Self Directed BOW proposal to their teacher considering core contents of Visual Arts (Practice, Conceptual Framework and the Four Frames). Their presentation (research, plan, direction) and teacher feedback then helped facilitate the next stages of their artmaking process - construction. Students have begun gathering their resources to initiate their final work of year 10. We look forward to sharing the final Body of Works later this term with our audience.

Here are some excerpts from students' proposals.

Mikayla BaloBalo