SACART WEEK 4 

Operation Art

Operation Art is an initiative of The Children’s Hospital at Westmead in association with the NSW Department of Education. This year, students in Year 7 - 10 at St Andrews are encouraged to submit an artwork for our school’s internal competition where up to 4 finalists will be selected to enter Operation Art. 

Artworks submitted to Operation Art will be framed for exhibition. Selected entries by Operation Art will tour hospitals and galleries regionally in NSW before becoming part of the permanent collection at Westmead Children’s Hospital. 

 

Students may submit artworks up to A2 in size in any chosen medium. (As long as it is flat) They can be in any theme however, we encourage students to create artworks that are uplifting, inspiring and positive. Artworks are due to Visual Arts teachers by Week 9 Monday 28th March.

 

More information regarding this initiative has been posted on Compass and year group Google Classrooms. Students may also see their Visual Arts teachers for more information. (Mrs Harris, Mrs Kemal or Miss Rivera)

 

Year 8 Visual Arts

 

Students in Year 8 Visual Arts have started off the term as photographers. They have been exploring the school grounds at SAC; interpreting the world in an abstract manner as they click their shutter buttons before editing their photographs in class. Mrs Kemal has included a more detailed update. We hope you enjoy some of the photographs of our students engaging in this task. 

Year 9 Visual Arts - The Archibald Prize

In Year 9 Elective Visual Arts, students are learning about the history of portraiture and how this has changed over time. As an introduction to the artmaking aspect of the course, students have been learning about facial proportions and tonal values.

After having some quick portrait photographs taken in class, students are working on a self portrait task as they master how to render tone. 

This will be the first of many artmaking tasks in this unit. Students are demonstrating their enthusiasm towards the subject as they actively participate in learning about different artmaking techniques. 

Year 11 Visual Arts

To challenge Year 11 Visual Arts students, they have been asked to choose an object as the basis of their artmaking task for ‘Unit 1: Artists and the World’. In class, students brainstormed the functions and aesthetics of their chosen object. This will form the basis of a Collection of Work to be submitted at the conclusion of the unit. Students will be working with many art forms in order to investigate different ways of artmaking in preparation for their Year 12 Body of Work. To start off, students are currently working on a realistic object study drawing along with an abstract cardboard sculpture. In order to do this, students must deconstruct their object and reconstruct it again by reimagining its characteristics and functions in an abstract manner. We look forward to updating the SAC community with the progress of their Collection of Works in the weeks to come.

Mrs Claudia Harris
Leader of Learning - Visual Arts

Year 7 ‘Ways of Seeing’ Pop Culture 

Year 7 students have been learning about Popular Culture and the trends over various time periods. Students were asked to bring in one popular packaged food Item, of which they would Photograph using clever composition, ‘Rule of Thirds’, consideration of lighting and basic editing skills. We also practised a popular artist transfer method called the ‘Grid method’, which ensures their work is proportional and guides them when outlining and colouring. Year 7 students in the upcoming weeks will learn how to utilise various colour pencil techniques such as; blending of hues, tonal variation and burnishing which will then be applied to their realistic colour pencil artwork. 

Artist works in progress:

	Photographer - Aashna Prasad	Artist - Vanessa Menon
Photographer - Angelina Chamoun	Photographer - Sahas Shergill	Photographer - Cohen Henry

Year 8 ‘Shock of the NEW’ A - Z Photography

Year 8 artists were introduced to photography skills such as composition, ‘rule of thirds’, angles and editing. Students explored the school environment to identify letters of the alphabet, capturing these everyday objects in a way which manipulates the visual, transforming the object into a letter. Students compiled their letters from A - Z then edited, cropped, adjusted hues and rearranged using Photoshop, Canva, or Slides creating a unique visual alphabetical compositional piece. 

Artist work in progress:

Allistaire Reyes found the letter P (the end of the railing)	Artwork by Kyle Lo
Artwork by Nicole Gasendo		Searching for letters in our school environment
Artwork by Alexandra Iskander		Nikhil Gudur found an ‘A’
Artwork by Samantha Xavier		Artwork by Liam Tabone

Year 10 Suburbia 

Students have explored characteristics/features of suburbia and what it means to be a citizen of the suburbs. They have analysed the practice of various artists/photographers work, investigating ways in which they depict suburbia in their own unique way. Our students were recently challenged with a collaborative task; for our artists, it was to create a scene within a window frame, representing a concept using mediums of their choice, and for our photographers, it was to create a series of scenes representing a concept using Photo editing software. This task encourages students to draw inspiration from the happenings of the world around us, to be able to research and explore concepts to develop coherence and layers of meaning in the making of art and develop/build upon existing technical skills; one of which is perspective drawings. These collaborative artworks will soon be exhibited.

Artist works in progress:

Year 12 HSC ‘Artistic Journey’ Body of Works

Our leading artists of St Andrews College have been extremely busy with their art making practice. The phenomenal works have been noticed by visitors inside and outside of our school community. Gaining popularity amongst staff, peers and professional artists. 

Currently in the studio, our artists are preparing to present their Body of Work, pitching their research, development and direction through assessment. Students will soon be visiting the Art Gallery of NSW to visit ARTEXPRESS 2021. 

Keep your eyes peeled for events such as ‘Works in Progress’ Night, which will provide the audience with an insight behind the scenes of an artist in practice. 

Mrs Kemal
Visual Arts Teacher