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NGV Top Arts Excursion

Our Year 11 and 12 VCE Art Making and Exhibiting students visited the NGV Ian Potter Centre in Melbourne to view the current Top Arts exhibition along with First Nations Art and the permanent Australian art collections.

Students participated in gallery educator talks on Australian Art and Identity, Top Arts, and folio viewing. Year 11 students discussed the thematic approach and how we can look for clues in an artwork to find ideas, meaning and messages. Year 12 students were able to hear about the selection process for the Top Arts Exhibition and curatorial decisions made behind the thematic display of the artworks.

All students were able to see firsthand the way a visual journal is developed over time from the inspiration stage, developing ideas, exploring materials, techniques, and process, right through to resolving a final artwork. Students also had the opportunity to view artworks within a large public gallery context and to see firsthand the way exhibitions are curated, displayed, and presented to the audience. Factors such as lighting, air temperature, information displays (didactic panels), wall colour, flooring were observed and understood as part of the planning and display of artworks.

Our students were immersed in a visual feast, taking their time to study artworks firsthand whilst gaining some inspiration for their own art making practices.

Please view the photos below from the First Nations Art and Top Arts Exhibition.

It was an enjoyable and memorable day out!