Year 7 Visual Arts - Ways of Seeing

Year 7 students have finished creating their first 2D artwork of popular food items as part of their formal Assessment Task. It has been wonderful to see the emerging and developing talent in our students utilising the techniques and skills they have learnt over the past term. Currently our students have begun a collaborative project where they have to construct a large scale paper mache food sculpture. Working with other students proved to be both an exciting, enjoyable and somewhat challenging experience for Year 7 as they navigate through the experience of group work. Some packaged items include a Zinger Box, a Happy Meal, Acai, Maltesers and Pizza - Just to name a few! Stay tuned for progress on our delicious (looking!) food sculptures. Below are students from 7VISAA and 7VISAC working together to create their paper mache moulds of their food items.

Year 8 Visual Arts - Shock of the New

Year 8 students have submitted their Cubist artworks as part of their formal Assessment Task. Many students selected Picasso’s Guitars (1912-14) as inspiration for their own artworks - Have a look at artworks below from students of 8VISAA. Currently our students have been learning about Surrealism - How artists see the world beyond a ‘normal’ or ‘realistic’ lens. Many students find this art movement strange, fascinating and interesting having learnt that dreams, nightmares and illusion are all characteristics of Surrealist art. Discussions surrounding strange dreams, feelings and imaginative experiences were interesting to conversation topics in class. As an introductory art making activity for this art movement, students in 8VISAA created Surrealist Nike Air Forces; applying Surrealist characteristics inspired by Wassily Kandinsky. 

SAC Art Club

As SAC Art Club has been running for almost a term now, this has proven to be a wonderful and inclusive experience for our students as it can be challenging at times if students are unable to commit to an extracurricular after school. I would like to personally thank Ms Leitch for allowing Art Club to run during Thursday Sport time as our students and I very much appreciate this being organised.

SAC Art Club students have ventured into learning about ceramics and creating miniature sculptures using small pieces of clay. Students learnt about a range of techniques such as the pinch pot method, scoring and how to use a ‘kidney’ to sculpt their creations. Whilst this medium can be a messy process, students definitely enjoyed moulding their clay in a relaxed and ‘chill’ (as what they call it!) space provided for them. 

Have a safe and restful break St Andrews Community.

God Bless and Kind Regards,

Miss Leezah Rivera

HSIE & Visual Arts Teacher