Visual Art News

Year 11 students were fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with world-renowned photographer Dr Joachim Froese who presented an artist talk about his photography practice, followed by a practical workshop where students learnt about composition and lighting as part of their current unit of work, “Art as Lens”.

As part of the same unit of work, students also learnt a new technique of eco-dyeing. A pungent broth of vinegar, red cabbage, brown onion skins, eucalyptus leaves, green tea and rusty nuts and bolts, could be smelt wafting out of the Art Block, as paper parcels filled with natural fibres, leaves and flowers boiled for several hours, resulting in some unusually coloured naturally dyed paper which students developed into artist books for their experimental folios.

We congratulate our first artwork of the month recipients for 2021. It was a three-way tie between Year 10 students Cole Miklashek, James Beling and William Moon who worked with artist and Old Boy Dylan Jones to create landscape paintings, whereby they depicted images from the natural environment. They will receive a certificate, a pack of ironlak pens and a voucher.

During Tuesday afternoon Art Club, boarding students have been developing chess boards using a range of colourful mosaic tiles with Ms Wilton and Ms Sheedy. The students will work on creative chess pieces made out of ceramics in Art Club next term to add to the boards. The Art staff look forward to challenging the boys to a game of chess when they are complete.