Year 11 Photography 

Year 11 photography students have been exploring portraiture in class. Portrait photography is about more than taking a photo of someone’s face, it is about telling a story. A successful portrait can reveal a person’s character, emotions or even their experience. Students were asked to take ‘Portraits without a face’ or ‘double exposure portraits’. Year 11 photography students have shown a great aptitude in editing their photos using a variety of Adobe programs. 

Year 9 Visual Arts

Year 9 Visual Arts students are finishing their Pop Art unit this week with their Mini bodies of work. Students were given a choice of medium and have pitched their concepts to their teacher for feedback/feed forward. After resolving their concepts students began working on artworks that reflect popular culture of 2023. Students are working in the mediums of painting, ceramics, drawing and sculpture. 

Below is an artwork by Ana Donjerkovic who has crafted Barbie’s ideal handbag out of clay. Using clay can be quite difficult, however Ana has done a fantastic job and has mastered the art of ceramics. 

This year we have two after school clubs within the Visual Arts faculty- pottery club being one of these. Seize the clay Pottery club began this term with Mrs Psaila. Students have been learning all the essential skills of hand building using clay. This includes slab rolling, pinch pots and coil building as well as making secure attachments. The past few weeks, students made a variety of objects including a ghost, a mushroom, a frog and a tiny plate. 

Their work will be painted this week and glazed. Students from years 7-9 have been enjoying this after school club immensely. 

Stay tuned for upcoming photos of finished pieces in the coming weeks.

Mrs Tiana Psaila

Visual Arts Teacher

Art Club has been up and running with our new students. It has been a wonderful experience witnessing the artistic talent in our school from all year groups. Over the past couple of weeks, students who have been in Art Club since Term 2 have finished some fantastic artworks which will be displayed in the G9 art room. New materials have also been introduced - Chalk paint markers which are known to be used in window displays for businesses and poster art and pastel pencils which have rich coloured pastel material in the form of a pencil wrapped with the wooden casing just like normal pencils. In comparison to pastels itself, it is much easier to control.

Year 9 students Airabelle, Sharon and Micaela have created a collaborative body of work of then pop culture cartoon characters, Powerpuff Girls; a tribute to childhood cartoon characters whilst Year 7 student Riya, has been experimenting with watercolour paint and techniques. 

Miss Leezah Rivera

Visual Arts & HSIE Teacher