All things Art!

Art Club have been busy over the past few weeks creating an artwork to be displayed at our Easter Liturgy at the end of Term 1. Ms Longley has been working with students on creating different textures, colour mixing and pattern creation. The project is coming together, and we are excited to see what it looks like at the end of the term. Thanks for your dedication, Art Club! 

What’s Happening in the Year 12 Visual Art Classroom?

This term, our Year 12 Visual Art students are creating resolved artworks for their Body of Work. This art-making project is the second phase of inquiry in an extended investigation exploring a student-selected focus and independently composed inquiry question. Each student has developed their personalised focus in response to two stimulus experiences: an Artist Talk with contemporary sensory artist, Michelle Vine and a visit to the immersive play exhibition, Imaginaria. Last year, after selecting a focus and devising their inquiry question, our Year 12 Visual Art students began researching, analysing and evaluating art practices, cultural influences, related theories and the formal qualities of Visual Art to produce experimental artworks. From these explorations of processes and media, students have now devised a vision for their resolved artworks and are immersed in the creation process to realise these visions. 

(Images Above: Year 12 Visual Art students visiting the immersive play exhibition, Imaginaria)

Exploring the unknown qualities of existence, specifically hypothesised scientific theories relating to our universe, Year 12 student Chiara Pezzetta is creating an installation artwork utilising reflective and mirrored surfaces to create the illusion of endless depth as a reflection of the expansiveness of the universe. Central to her work is a rotating cylindrical form that features a painting of our universe represented as only five percent of the surface area. This is a visual representation of the theory that our universe represents only five percent of all existence. Chiara’s creative thinking and innovative approaches with media enable an exploration of both scientific and philosophical thought in a 21st century context. 

(Images Above: Chiara Pezzetta creating her installation artwork)

This sense of curiosity and imagination is also clear in the work of Jaime Spurgeon who is exploring forces beyond rational understanding, namely those seemingly magical with examples in Irish folklore and Celtic mythology. Jaime is creating layers of digital drawings with animated features. Inspired by contemporary art practices, her intention is for audiences to stand inside a ring of hand-crafted ceramic mushrooms and view her digital artworks as large-scale projections. 

(Image Above: Jaime Spurgeon creating digital drawings)

Inspiring a sense of childlike curiosity and play, Giselle Shaw is busy facilitating sensory experience and inspiring nostalgia. She seeks to create an interactive experience for audiences which blurs the boundaries between artwork and gameplay, with visual likeness drawn from chess sets and checker boards. With each square on the board illustrated to reflect a children’s literary reference and every game piece an imaginative adaptation of curious children’s character, Giselle’s artwork intends to facilitate a sense of childlike wonder. She is currently creating these hand-crafted, ceramic game pieces with great precision and detail. 

(Images Above: Giselle Shaw creating her ceramic game pieces)

We are so excited to share our students’ projects with you as they continue to refine their process and practice. Keep your eyes peeled for photographs of their final artworks on MyMtA in the coming months!