Years 10-12

Art: Making and Exhibiting excursion- Shepparton Art Museum

The Art: Making & Exhibiting class (Josie Larmour) recently travelled to the Shepparton Art Museum as part of her Unit 2 studies.

Josie, accompanied by Miss Saunders and Mrs Thompson, commenced the day by viewing ‘Facing Modernity: Degas to Picasso’, an excellent touring exhibition featuring 37 paintings and sculptures from the Auckland Art Gallery. The artworks have never been shown in Australia and captured radical shifts in art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.  The second exhibition on the itinerary was the Archibald Prize, the oldest and most prestigious portrait prize in Australia. This exhibition from the Art Gallery of New South Wales is touring regional areas and provided great diversity with its subjects, styles and use of materials and techniques.

Having the opportunity to view artworks firsthand is always a special experience. Josie is now using the information and images she gathered on the day to complete Outcome 1.