Curricular Arts News

Goondiwindi Show

A 3:00am start on Friday 28 April, saw seven of our senior students (Year 12 Music Students – Kyle Bedford, Max Hodge, Danny O’Rourke and Tom Doherty and Year 11 Visual Art students Ashley Kani, Darcy Hotston and Ethan Torrens) accompanied by Arts staff, Dr Butt, Ms Harmston, Ms Wilton and Ms Larsen drive through the early hours of the morning to the Goondiwindi Show. Our Music students performed admirably all day to the show patrons and our Art students capably ran art workshops that provided opportunities for children to come along and create an artwork based on Gelli plate printing. Thanks to the involvement of Marist Boarding, who also had a stand in one of the Pavillions, we were provided with an amazing opportunity to promote our outstanding Arts programmes at Marist College,  meet with families from Goondiwindi and surrounding areas and provide entertainment for all who attended the Goondiwindi Show. It was an enjoyable and memorable experience that we hope to be able to replicate in 2024.

We had also entered a selection of artworks from our Years 9, 10 and 11 students in the Aspects Art Show which was part of the Goondiwindi Show and we were delighted to be informed that Lachlan Murray in Year 10 was awarded a Highly Commended in the student art section. Congratulations Lachlan.

ASHCAM Photography Competition

ASHCAM has been launched for 2024. Please refer to the flyer on this page for details. The competition is open to all in the Marist Community and entries close Monday 29 May. Judging will take place by world-renowned photographer Dr Joachim Froese and winners will be announced on Friday 2 June at the conclusion of Creative Industries week at the College.

Artwork of the Month – May

We congratulate James Doolan in Year 7 who is the Artwork of the Month Winner for May for his Aztec and Incan-inspired Ceramic plate.

Year 9 Visual Art Workshop

Year 9 Visual Art students were fortunate to have ceramicist Wendy Winsley come and work with them to develop some Picasso-inspired self-portraits in clay in their double lesson in Week 3.  The students have also developed AI-Generated Cubist poems which will be added to the timber bases which will form part of these sculptural pieces. We look forward to seeing the finished products in the coming weeks.