Focus on Visual Arts

3D Art Expo

We are all in a spin as we conclude our 3D Art Expo.

Spinning to catch a look at the multitude of three-dimensional sculptures that all came together to be presented in the extraordinary 3D Art Expo.

The Old Hall became an enticing, colourful gallery space where all student artists harnessed their inner Yayoi Kusama to create sculptures inspired by her.

Foundation Artists

Did you know flowers spoke to Yayoi Kusama when she was a child? She loved using them in her art. So the Foundation artists manipulated pipe cleaners to make fantastic flowers, twisting petals, and adding a skewer to complete the flower. They designed a vase for their flowers with paper and a bit of a pool noodle.

I wonder what their flowers would be saying to you?

Year 1&2 Artists

Yayoi Kusama gave the Year 1&2 student artists the idea to transform their hats with pasta! Students glued many different shaped pastas onto their hats just like Yayoi did to her clothes or even bags! She used pasta because she was so poor she couldn’t buy art materials.

Our artists painted over the pasta and added extra decorations with amazing results!

Year 3&4 Artists

Yayoi Kusama’s mixed media artwork in a box inspired the Year 3&4 student artists to create their own version of tentacles in a box. They considered what was needed to make the tentacles and used disposable gloves filled with soft stuffing.

Students continued to artistically decorate the space with a variety of materials, some even telling a story… Yayoi would love them!

Year 5&6 Artists

After exploring Yayoi Kusama’s “Internal Soul” series, our Year 5&6 student artists adapted its lively combinations of colour and bizarre humour to create a work of their own in a three-dimensional way. Students used paper mâché to build a newspaper filled card structure to create an amoeba shape. They added elevated shapes to generate interest.

Using Viponds paint, our artists painted the shape one colour – and the bumps another. Patterns were incorporated on the bumps using black, thick an fine line markers. What a transformation!

Gallery Experience

We have now lived the Gallery experience, understand the behaviours required for those spaces and the protocols involved when viewing art.

What Else Does this Term Hold?

Term 4 is focussed on the areas of modelling with clay and creating artwork with threads and textiles.

Of course, at the end of the term, all the student artists will be proudly bringing the results of their creativity in the Art Studio, home to be shared with their families.

We have adored Yayoi Kusama and her forever dots!

I wonder who will be inspiring us in 2026?

~ Marjie Tkatchenko, Visual Arts Teacher