Year 12 HSC Visual Arts Exhibition

This is a wonderful time of the year, where, after many months of developing their Body of Works, our Year 12 students work tirelessly to refine and resolve their artworks for the last time in order to submit their Body of Works for HSC marking. After the official NESA due date on 1st September, we celebrated the success of our students with our annual HSC Visual Arts Exhibition. It was lovely to see family, friends, and mentors attend the evening and immerse themselves in the variety of artworks on display. 

In the lead-up to this day, our Year 12 artists spent countless hours in the Art Room, finalising feedback provided to them about their work. As their teacher, I am immensely proud of the work that they have put in. They have pushed themselves through various challenges in order to complete a Body of Work that encapsulates their varied conceptual and material practice. 

We wish the Year 12 Visual Arts students all the best as they continue their studies over their study break and into the HSC. This week we have focused on exam strategies in class, and no doubt, students will continue to push for their personal best in the upcoming exams. 

Well done, Year 12!

 

Mrs Claudia Harris

Leader of Learning Visual Arts

Year 7 Claes Oldenberg Food Sculptures

Year 7 have begun the creation of their Claes Oldenberg-inspired food sculptures. Students were very eager and excited to work in their small groups to construct a large paper-mache artwork. This is a great task for students to utilise problem-solving skills and work within a team towards a goal. A shoutout to my class, 7VISA-E, who have worked fabulously this term. I look forward to seeing how our sculptures turn out at the end of this term.

Year 8 Reg Mombassa Artworks

Year 8 are in the process of creating their triptych artworks inspired by the artmaking of Reg Mombassa. Students have been working on their draft drawings and soon to be transferring this onto artist paper. This is a fantastic task for Year 8’s to use their imagination implemented into an artwork with an existing element. We look forward to seeing their final artworks at the end of this term.

Year 9 Collaborative SAC Landscape Artworks

Year 9 students have ventured around the College as part of their new unit, Poetic Landscapes. We walked around different areas and experienced the environment using our senses. Students were required to write down what they saw, felt, smelt, heard and overall, witnessed in each part of the school. Upon returning to class, in small groups, students utilised their sensory worksheet as inspiration for creating an artwork inspired by SAC using a range of mixed media. This task has proved to be a valuable experience for students to utilise their everyday surrounding environment as inspiration and working together with their peers.

Year 10 Fine Diner Cultural Dish Peer Review and Banquet

Year 10 have finished their second unit for the year, Fine Diner. We concluded our unit with a self and peer review of their ceramic fine diner sets inspired by a culture of their choice. In our last lesson, students brought various dishes representing the culture of their fine diner ceramics set. Amelia K brought in Otai representing Tonga, Jasmine F brought Koki’s and String Hoppers representing Sri Lanka and Jacinta E brought in Empanadas representing Spanish culture. 

Mrs Harris and I look forward to our final unit with Year 10 Visual Arts, Self Directed, where students explore various themes/concepts/ideas/issues within their personal world and the global community to serve as the conceptual aspect of their Collection of Work that they will produce in the upcoming weeks. For some students, this is their last opportunity to create a Visual Arts artwork and we anticipate that this will be a memorable experience for them to end their Junior Visual Arts course.

Have a wonderful rest of Term 3, St. Andrews Community.

Miss Leezah Rivera

Visual Arts & HSIE Teacher