Visual Arts

To complement the sustainability focus on National Tree Day, the 5/6 students have been working on wire sculpture trees. 

After wrestling with the ‘halve, twist’ pattern to create the main part of the tree, students then repeated the process to create a root system, which made their tree stable. 

A problem solving mindset was useful to be successful in this activity! 

Since these photos were taken, students have decorated their trees with a range of bright, metallic or glow in the dark beads.

The 3/4 students have looked at threads and used animals created by the Tjanpi desert weavers as inspiration for their creatures.

Here we have an emu and a duck, there were turtles, kangaroos and even a lobster! Construction consisted of newspaper and tape and problem solving was required to make animals stand up and to join legs, necks, beaks and tails.

Students in 1/2 have also started looking at threads and textiles and started with paper weaving. 

The students were interested and sometimes perplexed by how the pattern was created, and the resulting ‘chessboard effect’ got a few of them excited about playing a game on their weaving.

Students in Foundation read the picture story book The Very Busy Spider as inspiration for their foray into threads.

 After decorating the ‘loom’ using concentric circles, the students pretended that their hands were very busy spiders, weaving in and around holes punched into the paper plate.

 Spiders have been added since this photo was taken - some of them quite realistic!