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Visual Arts
The visual arts program is exploring installation art, beginning with an underlying focus on place-noticing and experimental & observational drawing. Students have been invited to slow down, notice and pay attention to their relations with place and multi-species. We are grateful to be learning from local Aboriginal knowledges, and place-noticing project; Out & About with…
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Presence
Neighbourhoods 3-6 have taken on the. ‘Mystery Box Challenge’ with spirit, courage, patience, lots of laughter and hard work. It began with a lucky dip & a box full of discarded and unusual materials. The challenge: work collaboratively to transform the materials found in your ‘mystery box’ into full body wearable art. Students were encouraged…
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Masters of Disguise
The 1-2 neighbourhoods’ are delving into mask making and discovering that superpowers are not restricted to just superheroes. We have been inspired by; American Artist Nick Caves Soundsuits and his creative intentions to not only hide identity, but to also act as an object with superpowers to protect and heal, and Torres Strait Islander artist…
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Wearable Sculpture
‘I want a viewer to reflect on how they respond to someone or something unlike themselves.[The experience is] about difference and the power of uniqueness’ (Nick Cave, American multidisciplinary artist). There is still a constant stream of student requests to view more of Gerwyn Davies ‘selfies.’ As we delve deeper into wearable sculpture and the…
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Expressive Drawing: Let Love Rule
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that this resource contains references to names and works of people who are now deceased. External links may also include names, audio, and images of those who are now deceased. We began the new term celebrating NAIDOC week and listening and drawing to the music of…
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Paper Sculptures
With their introduction to making paper sculptures playful students have been tuning into the structural and physical properties of paper, including its airiness, waywardness, and at times…. need for flight! Students are developing understanding that when we make art in 3 dimensions it is often called Sculpture and that an effective sculpture works from all…
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Stolen Generations Flower
Historical Acceptance is key to reconciliation in Australia. Historical acceptance means that Australians recognise, understand, and accept the wrongs of the past and the impact of these wrongs on First Peoples and ensure that the wrongs of the past never happen again. Historical acceptance cannot occur without truth-telling. Telling the truth about our history not…
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Paper
We have begun the new term ‘designing through making’ with our first session, a playful one – the challenge to create 3D forms from paper experimenting with structure and texture using manipulation techniques. We decided that in addition to sculpting with paper, thread, string, and fishing line can be used as a design feature and…
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Life Drawing: Lines of Action & Tone
The dress-up box has continued to be wildly popular, with the outfits we choose and the poses we strike expressing our creativity, uniqueness, and personality. As visual artists we are discovering that the lines we draw, just like our classmates in costume, have personalities – some outgoing, dynamic, and a whirlwind of energy, some gentle,…
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Idols
Gerwyn Davies To say the children have had an enthusiastic and captivated response to Australian artist and photographer Gerwyn Davies artwork would be an understatement. It’s no wonder, as Davie’ artwork is so colourful, so over the top, so challenging, inspiring and… so much fun! Described as ‘the artist behind Australia’s most outlandish selfies’(Albert 2021)…
