Visual Arts  

2025 KSC VCE Art and Design Exhibition  

Art Creative Practice, Visual Communication Design, Product Design Technology- Wood.

As we celebrated the opening of the VCE Arts Exhibition on Tuesday 21 October, 2025 we witnessed amazing pieces of artworks from very talented students. It is so exciting to be part of so much creativity and be inspired by the talents of students in ACP, Visual Communication Design and PDT.  Thank you to all the students who exhibited in the exhibition – you should all be very proud of your achievements, hard work, dedication and success.

There are many people to thank: 

• The A Block Team and teaching staff of A Block for loaning us A Block and being very accommodating with furniture being rearranged

•  The Executive team for supporting Arts & Design and taking the time to select the Principal Acquisition Award winner

• Penelope Latham and Josh Verco and team for organising sound and supporting music students, Vista Kalhori and Aliyah R- Shakeel who performed so beautifully

• The Visual Arts staff - Amy Mclellan, Chris Henson, Hannah Humphris, Georgina Russell, Emma Crimmings and Peter Scott

• The Technology Design staff – Kirby Sens, for all they have put into making this VCE Art and Design Exhibition look polished, refined and creative.

• To the Arts captains (2025) Micaela Poon and Jean Lim, who both undertook folio subjects yet found the time to give back to the Arts.

•  Peter Martin and all the team who helped with the set-up of the exhibition 

• Our amazing admin staff, Helen and Gill for creating awards and editing newsletter items.

We say goodbye and thank you Micaela and Jean and welcome Vista and Camilla, who did a super job running the People's Choice awards.

To the students of ACP, Visual Communication Design and Product Design Technology-well done and we can see the amount of work that you have completed – we are so proud of you all!

We hope that you have all found your artistic voice, we hope your creative lives continue to flourish.

We congratulate the following students:

2025 VCE ART & DESIGN AWARD WINNERS

PRODUCT TECHNOLOGY - WOOD  (Teacher - Kirby Sens)

Artistic Excellence – Peggy Lane

Highly Commended – Oliver Beaton

Teacher Award – Meaghan Elmer

People's Choice - Peggy Lane

ART CREATIVE PRACTICE teacher (Teacher - Chris Henson)

Artistic Excellence – Vernice Pang

Highly Commended – Peggy Lane

Teacher Award – Joey Liang

People's Choice - Lily Harris

VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN  (Teacher - Amy Mclellan)

Artistic Excellence – Jean Rui Lim

Highly Commended – Peggy Lane

Teacher Award – Micaela Poon

People's Choice -  Micaela Poon

PRINCIPAL AQUISTITION AWARD  -  Peggy Lane

Artists of the Week 

Each week we celebrate the work of enthusiastic artists. 

Congratulations to Erica So and Leah Tran of 9C! Erica and Leah have been selected as a KSC Artists of the Week and were nominated for Artist of the Week by their Art Teacher, Ms Briffa. The class assessment task was titled 'Pen and Ink'.

Great work Erica and Leah! 

Congratulations also to Alexis Floros (7G) who was awarded Artist of the Week for her artwork completed as part of her Still Life Class Assessment Task.  Alexis demonstrated exceptional skill in achieving accurate proportions and applying painting techniques with precision and care. Well done Alexis! 

Erica So 

Please read what Erica has written to describe her art piece.

My pen and ink drawing for our fantasy theme is inspired by a game that I really love, set in a medieval fantasy world. The game is known for its dark and cruel atmosphere, and I took parts of that feeling and combined them into my own work. The design for this piece is based on an area in the game where players must navigate through an unforgiving thicket filled with strange enemies hiding in the shadows. I included many unique characters to give the drawing an eerie and uncomfortable feeling. Using pen and ink allowed me to create a dim, shadowy background that draws attention to the main focus of the piece. I think this artwork captures the qualities of fantasy and shows the cruel, mysterious world that inspired me.

Leah Tran 

Please read what Leah has written to describe her art piece.

My pen and ink drawing was inspired by the imagery of body horror from horror games, movies and shows that I love to resemble the theme of fantasy. My inspiration was from games from the Fear and Hunger series, Still wakes the deep, The last of us and feed me Billy. I was also influenced by movies and shows such as The substance, Stranger things and Parasyte: The grey. What they all had in common was that they all have an ominous and thrilling atmosphere to them and the variety of imagination and artistic expressiveness in these games, movies and shows that really capture the detail in texture. They encouraged me to use the element of texture in my artwork to give my drawing the structure and sense of feel to make my work seem more disturbing. The multiple techniques I used consisted of all throughout my drawing to create an eerie feeling by creating shadows and applying form. A different technique depending on the area of the piece. With the variety of detail and contrast, believe that my artwork was able to give of an unsettling presence to it and bring out the darker side to the theme of fantasy.

Alexis Floros

Please read what Leah has written to describe her art piece.

My still life artwork shows how a variety of colours such as complimentary, primary and tertiary colours, create a change of perspective from the audience, encouraging them to view the subject in a more expressive and emotional way Through the use of contrast and balance throughout each object in the painting, the colours help highlight different elements of the piece, drawing attention to specific areas and guiding the viewer’s focus. This creates a sense of depth and meaning, allowing each person to interpret the artwork in their own way.

Helen Briffa

Visual Arts/Technology Teacher

Visual Arts Domain PLC Leader