Visual Arts

Week 7 This week is our most exciting yet. We are beginning the building stage of our installation. The veranda of the visual art room was set up as a studio that incorporated, measuring and sawing lengths of bamboo and painting the ends that will be buried underground with a rubber bitumen paint to protect […]

Week 6 This week the students spent time completing and refining their models, ready to present to Munir, Deb and myself. It was vital for each team to communicate the main ideas for their designs and instruments so when Deb, Munir and myself met, we were able to tease out the essential elements of each

Artist in Residence Week 3 and 4 Week 3 Exploring bamboo and sound… This week Deb led our workshops and we explored the potential of bamboo to create sound. We approached our explorations in two stages. These were not necessarily in any order. We explored a range of sounds that we could harness from the

Giant Grass “One of the most fundamental and practical aspects of art is the importance of materials. The stuff that artists use when they make a work of art influences both form and content. Every material brings something special to the creative process and the finished work. Materials influence how artists make their work and

Week 5 Creating the stamp for the textile print… This week we used the process of collaging our images as a basis for the process we needed to go through in the preparation of our stamps. We cut, shaped, glued and labelled the compressed foam stamps and allowed them to dry over the course of

Creating a motif or design Week 2 and 3 Creating a motif… “If you peek inside a sketchbook of a designer, you can see the birth of their ideas” This week, we have a range of natural materials on display that we are drawing, carefully examining the details of the objects. Through careful observation of

      The Marimekko retrospective exhibition, Marimekko: Design Icon 1951 to 2018, is currently on at the Bendigo Art Gallery. Here is the blurb that accompanies the exhibition: Established during the golden age of post-war modernism, Marimekko is the Finnish textile and fashion company that achieved international fame in the 1960s and 70s with its bold

Term 2 Live my Art… Wear my Art… Building on the work of Yayoi Kusama that we examined last term, this term we are examining the power of artists to express their creative selves beyond the canvas. Yayoi Kusama is an artist who ‘lives her art’. In many photos of her work, she is seen

This week students have worked very hard to complete their self-portraits, inspired by the technical and aesthetic skill exhibited by Yayoi Kusama in her work. We explored the patterns created by her use of the dot motif. Students used filters as brushes and thick poster paint to explore the dot mark making.   Students explored