Creative Arts 

Studio Arts

On Tuesday 26 March the Year 11 and 12 Studio Art classes visited The National Gallery of Victoria (International and Australia).

The students attended 'Top Arts' and 'Escher X Nendo / Between Two Worlds'. It was a great experience to visit such different Visual Arts' Exhibitions and explore different mediums from last  year's Year 12 students to the magnificent display of mathematical prints and drawings of Escher. The presentation that the Japanese Design Studio created compliment the style of Escher's artwork.

Sonya Hood

Learning Leader: Creative Arts

Year 7 Textiles 

The focus for this semester is to construct a White Calico Carry Bag, complete with an applique design and stitched by the students.  To complete the bag the students need to learn to use a sewing machine, which they are all looking forward to.

To this end, the Year 7 Textiles classes have been working attentively to master hand stitching, including running stitch, backstitch and

chain stitch.  Students in Room 75 are completing their sample applique and some students have started their applique on their bags. It will be wonderful to see their finished products.

Feedback from the girls regrading their Textiles Class has been very positive

• Giselle: “In Textiles we are making bags. It is so much fun and we are doing all different types of stitching”
• Isla: “In Textiles I enjoy doing the different stitches. I am now doing applique for my bag. I am drawing a design with my name and waves.”
• Renae: “My favourite thing in Textiles is I get to sew a lot.”
• Mikayla: “The reason why I love Textiles is because you have lots of creativity."
• Ruby: “What I enjoy about Textiles is making the bag design and the different steps you have to do, making your name to put on the bag and lots more.”

Tricia Benson

Textiles Teacher 

Year 8 Ceramics 

Artists, Scientists and Writers observe the world around them, explore ideas, use their imagination and often show us unexpected ways of looking and seeing things that we may not normally notice. In this way they can challenge us to think about and understand things differently.

In the Year 8 Ceramics Unit, students are looking at our environment from the perspective of 'the microscopic', a strange and wonderful world that reveals some of the building blocks of our existence. Without knowing it, we depend on many microscopic creatures for the survival of life on earth, for example, single cell organisms called diatoms.

Diatoms are photosynthetic plankton that live in both fresh and salt water. They can be found in almost every body of water. Some are bioluminescent (they light up at night) and are made of silica - which is the same material as glass. Phytoplankton like diatoms make over 60% of the oxygen we breathe on land.

When we look closely we see all sorts of weird and beautiful forms and it is these forms that the students are using as a 'starting point' for inspiration for a ceramic sculpture. The photo gallery shows some of the design process drawings and the students working on their ceramic forms.

Cathy Maloney

Art Teacher