Curriculum Programs 

Visual Arts News

What an amazing term filled with fun learning and wonderful artmaking.  Here is a snapshot to celebrate the artwork students have created on the Springvale Campus.

FLC students have participated in textiles activities, along with modelling and painting units to make artworks. They manipulated different modelling materials, changed the colour and texture and created imaginative three-dimensional models. They experimented with the use of stamp prints, mono prints and stencil prints, and mixed coloured paints to capture the changing colours of the seasons.

JLC students have participated in textiles, painting and modelling units this term. They used simple threading and weaving to create textile cushion pets. The students explored the qualities of different modelling materials and different processes to create clay pinch-pots and three-dimensional models. JLC used painting materials and elements to paint images of Australian Footballers inspired by the artist Sydney Nolan.

MLC students have focused on the use of weaving looms to create textile art. In modelling, MLC students discussed the physical properties and changes of various modelling materials and used bonding techniques to make three-dimensional coil pots and imaginative models. They looked at the painting techniques and art elements used by the Impressionist artist Claude Monet and applied this knowledge to paint a landscape inspired by Monet’s Garden. MLC created textured paintings to capture their ideas in commemoration of Reconciliation Week.

SLC students planned and made artworks using printing, painting, textiles and modelling techniques and processes. They discussed slab modelling techniques used in art and solved problems associated with the changing properties, texture and form required to make three dimensional pots.

They also used painting techniques to create artworks and art installations inspired by the artist David Hockney and Yayoi Kusama.

                                                                                                    Ms Tina Apostolakis

Visual Arts Coordinator 

(Springvale Campus)