Art

YEAR 11 ART UNIT 2 - COLLABORATIVE ARTWORKS

YEAR 10 ART CREATIVE PRACTICE – CAT 2: ISSUES AND MESSAGES IN ART

Students were asked to investigate and research an issue or a personal message that they could then communicate in their art. Documenting the creative practice through research, experimentation, feedback and refinement, students could choose the art form that best suited the communication of their message. We have included their artist statements for context. 

Chloe O. – Issue: Animal Testing

Chloe’s artworks display the theme of animal testing by showing three perspectives to expose what really goes on behind the scenes of creating your favourite skincare and makeup. Chloe has a long-lasting passion for animal welfare and her love for all animals inspired her to create these art pieces. Animal testing affects not only an animal but our entire world and can become detrimental to a species survival. Animals all across the world are being exploited through the amount of abuse they have to take each and every day. The mediums used to create this piece was a combination of clay, water colour and found objects. The clay was used to create a rat that has suffered the effects of being tested on for human gain. This was used to expose how bad these products affect animals and bring emotion and thought into the piece showing a realistic 3D artwork. A water colour painting showcases the idea of if the roles were reversed. It displays an animal testing on a human instead of an animal, and requests viewers to think that this is wrong but realise that is what’s happening to the animals in those laboratories. The final piece to the artwork was the found object. This was to represents a consumer’s perspective on animal testing. The piece exhibits a moisturiser container, but there is blood and skin and eyeballs in it showing the pieces of animals and exposes what is going on behind those factories. This artwork invites viewers to rethink their choices and truly understand how these products are created with cruelty. This artwork aims to raise awareness and emphasises the importance of saving all animals from exploitation and abuse.

Lily C. - Personal Message Exploration: You Never Knew Me

My pieces follow my own experience of dissociation and overwhelming feelings of nostalgia. These pieces are meant to convey my own point of view on how living with longstanding mental illness effects the ability to focus and live in the moment. Inspired by certain styles of film and long exposure photography, I hope to make anyone viewing this simply feel something.

Tahlia H-E. – Personal Message Exploration: The Linear Journey

A statement on the “linear” journey of recovery, and failure to achieve it.  This collection consists of five different pieces. A journey of recovery, misery, slowly losing to an unforeseen battle against yourself, and somehow managing to win it to rediscover the beauty and joy of simply being alive.    It is up to you to choose what order to view these pieces in, as it is a progression.   The fact that recovery is a grueling process that simply never turns out quite how you wanted or expected is the defining theme between these pieces.   To me, art is about finding yourself within the shared experiences you have with strangers. I truly believe that perhaps the purest form of human connection is through expression, and I sincerely hope that anyone can find a small glimmer of themselves within my experiences. 

Connor H. – Personal Message Exploration: Identity

The theme that I chose was identity and self-expression, I chose to explore this theme because I believe that it is important for people to show their true self, and I wanted to promote that through my pieces. I was inspired by how masks can be used as a way of hiding your identity and I wanted to reverse this on the mask to show the true self, the medium of Modroc plaster was chosen for this reason. This work hopes to inspire people to be truer to themselves instead of hiding their true self. 

Chloe C. – Issue: Deforestation - The Blue Bird

The topic chosen to be explored was deforestation, exploring its effects on the wildlife and their habitats. The piece was inspired by fallen tree stumps and flaming forests because of the beauty and tragic stories they told. The mediums used to produce the piece was a combination of clay sculptures, poetry, and watercolour. The clay sculpture brought emotion and ideas to life in a 3D way that simple 2D art can’t, whereas the poetry added a storyline to bring understanding and evoke emotion in an audience. The watercolour created a blurred but beautiful backdrop, again adding to the story and understanding to what the little bird was experiencing. The work is aiming to achieve sympathy and create a lasting effect on the viewers, so that they might take action on stopping deforestation and help save the planet.

   Her poor babies will never see

   A world where she once was free

   But the forests are gone

   And she’s unsure she’ll see dawn

   Poor little bird sits sad on the tree

Noah J. – Issue: War – Civil Supremacy

Noah’s painting “Civil Supremacy” unveils tragic themes regarding the ideas of civil war and how it affects society. The painting’s aspects used inspiration from the artwork “Guernica”, painted by Picasso in 1937 to incite public attention in relation to civil war in the modern age. Noah utilized mediums of a grand large, landscaped canvas painted with acrylic through a dull greyscale colour scheme, to accentuate on the dark grim emotions and complex realities formed from war and confusion when observed. Noah’s work aspires to achieve a public insight and to provoke the audience’s sympathy regarding the ideas of civil war and how it affects both the subject and society.

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