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STEEL: Art Design Architecture Excursion

Year 10 and 11 Product Design students from both Clyde North and Cranbourne Campus travelled to the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery to experience the STEEL: Art Design Architecture exhibition.

The exhibition explored innovative and outstanding ways that steel is being used by artists, designers and architects in Australia in the 21st century.

Students initially spent some time in the gallery space to view the works before engaging in discussion about the works with the gallery education officer, Jill Anderson.

Students were able to investigate a variety of conceptual art sculptures that promote sustainability by using found, upcycled and manipulated steel. They explored how steel is used in design through a variety of wearable steel brooches and bracelets and, the creation of usable vessels and knives. Students were also exposed to various models of houses that used steel as their main construction material.

Utilising the exhibition and the works included as inspiration, students used paper to create various design mock-ups in response the artist’s work and gave them a greater understanding about how they might have gone about the initial generation of ideas.

This experience enabled both students and staff to view the use of steel as a material in a different way and everyone left the gallery inspired by the works they had seen.

Mr C. Robinson

Technology Teaching & Learning Coach - Cranbourne Campus