Arts

Year 11 Art Making and Exhibiting Exhibition Visit to the NGV, D-Lan and Tolarno Gallery  

VCE Unit 3 Art Making and Exhibiting Art and Photography students went on a gallery spree in the CBD. They were visiting diverse commercial galleries and the National Gallery of Victoria to experience great art and to see and evaluate best practice exhibition design.  

At the NGV students saw the Top Arts exhibition and had a chance to look through the art journals of the exhibiting emerging artists, last year’s VCE graduates. They could see best practice documentation of art processes and get ideas for their folios to advance their own documentation. 

They also visited the ‘Guwarguwarmirri’ – Colours of the Rainbow exhibition at the Tolarno gallery and saw the exceptional barks and pole works of contemporary Yolŋu artists Djurrayun Murrinyina and Guruwuy Murrinyina, First Nations artists from East Arnhem. At D’lan gallery, students were lucky to be offered a private preview of the ‘Significant’ exhibition, an exhibition of important First Nations art of the highest quality and cultural significance currently on the secondary market. 

After the gallery visits students had an hour for lunch and to walk the city collecting impressions, and some great photography took place.  D'Lan Gallery kindly donated their catalogue of the ‘Significant’ exhibition, which will be available for viewing in the Arts department.  

Life Drawing

Life Drawing has commenced at Nyora Studio on Wednesday the 20th of May. Our senior students were tutored by practicing fine artist Emmy Mavroidis, in the understandings and techniques of charcoal and observation. 

This is just the beginning for these students, with 6 weeks ahead they will learn and master the art of life drawing. 

Congratulations on beginning this learning experience!

Beyond Age Project

On Thursday 30 April, five photography students from Eltham High School went to the Nillumbik Shire Council in Greensborough to participate in a workshop and photoshoot as a part of the Beyond Age Project. 

We arrived by bus and participated in a workshop that combatted against ageism and to hopefully change people’s perspective of ageing.  We took part in conversation with older models who expressed their experiences of when they were younger.  We also worked to brainstorm the positives and negatives of being our age, which highlighted the similarities between each age group. 

Once the workshop was over, as the young photographers we set up and prepared for the older models to have their portraits taken; many photos were taken and will later be put up in a display with photos of their younger self. 

This was a great learning experience about what is means to age and the importance to treat older people the same way we would treat any other person. As one of the young photographers, I found this a rewarding experience in a real-world photography environment with a different generation to our own. The older models a part of this experience were very lovely and inviting, which made the experience fun and a nice way to connect. 

EMMA SHELTON, Arts KLA Coordinator