CAPA Junior Showcase The Visual Arts team is busy preparing student artworks from Semester 1 to be showcased at the upcoming SAC CAPA Junior Showcase. Date: 23rd May 2023 Tuesday Time: 5pm - 7pm We look forward to seeing family and friends of our SAC students!

Operation Art 2023

We had a wonderful range of artworks entered for our internal St Andrews Operation Art competition. It is fabulous to see the talent of our students across various different mediums, exploring different concepts that are suitable for entry into Operation Art 2023; for a chance to become a part of the Westmead Children’s Hospital’s permanent art collection. 

Dr Kennaugh and the Visual Arts teachers had a very hard task of narrowing down to only four finalists for submission to Operation Art as our St Andrews representatives for this year. 

We look forward to congratulating these students at a future assembly. Information for the opening event and Operation Art exhibition will be available sometime during Term 3. 

Congratulations to our finalists from each year group:

Year 7 - Emily Burchmore

Year 8 - Luke Gilshenan

Year 9 - Kathryn Baginski

Year 10 - Ahlai Jesudoss

Year 8 Visual Arts

Year 8s have started their next unit of work, which will see them work with painting and ceramics. As an introduction to their artmaking, students learnt about the colour wheel and colour theories. Furthermore, they extended their knowledge of primary, secondary and tertiary colours by working in groups on a “colour challenge”. Students were engaged and hard at work trying to match the colour swatches provided to them. Using acrylic paint, students had to apply their understanding of the colour wheel and colour theory in order to replicate the exact colour. We are looking forward to more hands-on artmaking activities this term and can’t wait to share these with the SAC community. 

Mrs Claudia Harris

Leader of Learning Visual Arts

Art Club

I am pleased to announce that SAC Art Club is up and running for 2023! It has been quite a while since St. Andrews has had an Art Club and I am incredibly excited to be facilitating this for our students alongside the support of my fellow Visual Arts colleagues. Art Club has been running on Tuesday afternoons from 3pm - 4pm catering to a selection of 24 talented students from Year 7-10. 

This is an excellent opportunity for students to get involved in a creative school extra-curricular activity. The overall intention is to explore the artistic needs of students and how art teachers can cater to this. The vision for Art Club is for it to be an inviting, open, creative and ‘chill’ space for students. So far, students have been experimenting in utilising different art materials with the most popular being gouache and oil paint and water soluble oil pastels.

Below are some student statements about their Art Club experience so far.

“Every Tuesday, I wait until 3pm. It's finally time; Art Club starts, and everyone rummages into the classroom. I can feel all the energy and excitement building. I've been waiting for too long; I want to start already! The question of the week always gets my mind working; it lets me see and know others' perspectives on art. Once everyone has shared their answers, we are provided with different art equipment, for example, gouache, acrylics, oil pastels, and much more. Then we get to share, showcase, and get feedback on our artworks; it's always good to know how we can improve and what we're really good at. Once we start or continue an artwork, our teachers and classmates help us. Overall, it is very enjoyable, and you get to meet lots of new people and improve your art skills” - Perla Chamoun (Year 7)

“Art Club is a time for students who enjoy art to communicate with each other and be with each other in a relaxing and calming environment with the help of art teachers. Art club is a great place for like minded people and a great one hour that everyone can spend after school, enjoying themselves, doing art and doing the things that they like to do. In short, Art Club is a great place that students get to enjoy themselves with the help of teachers and spend time with like minded people and enjoy the joys that Art Club brings” - Aarya Jani (Year 8)

“Art Club is enjoyable for me because it has allowed me to meet new people from different grades and get me out of my comfort zone by trying something new. In Art Club so far, I have been able to try mediums like gouache that I have never used before. I like how if I’m stuck on what to create, there are the art club challenges that help give me inspiration. SAC Art Club has helped me talk to people that I don’t necessarily know and get to know more about them” - Khloe Fickle (Year 9)

“Our experience so far in Art Club has been positive. It does not take up too much of our schedules, as it is only 1 hour after school hours, and we enjoy the time we get to work on our art projects and other artistic endeavours. We greatly appreciate the fact that we are not forced to do any activities we do not wish to participate in, as it enables us to have a sense of decision and option. We recommend it to other fellow students” - Ada Ding (丁灵静) and Madelin La (Year 10)

I am looking forward to seeing SAC Art Club grow throughout Term 2 and the following terms to come. 

Miss Leezah Rivera

Visual Arts and HSIE Teacher