Junior School 

Visual Art

The Junior School Art room is currently full of vibrancy and colour, with the wall showcasing some amazing Pop Art projects. Each year level is represented in the display with works completed either last term or during the first week of Term 4. Inspired predominantly by Pop Artists, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, students have produced Handprint Paintings (Prep), Papier Mâché Donuts and Collaged Donuts (Year 1 and 2), Comic Onomatopoeia Constructions (Year 3 and 4) and Comic Style Reverse Acetate Portrait Paintings (Year 5 and 6).

We’ve hit the ground running in Term 4 with Year 5 and 6 continuing their painting unit. In the style of Pablo Picasso, students completed a Paint Your Mate project, resulting in lots of geometric and irregular shapes, lots of colour, lots of fun and lots of laughs.

Year 3 and 4 are currently learning about Piet Mondrian and the De Stijl movement and are busy completing construction cubes and freeform sculptures using only primary colours, squares and rectangles.

Indigenous paintings and sculptures were explored by Year 1 and 2 students as they looked at the beautiful illustrations in the book The River, by Sally Morgan and Johnny Warrkatja Malibirr, and viewed animal sculptures by Louise Weaver and the Tjanpi Desert Weavers. This term students have been adding the final touches to their amazing Wool Wrapped Indigenous Animals, as they complete their Textiles unit.

Prep students have also been exploring Textiles and have created some gorgeous felt finger puppets (some inspired by contemporary Australian artist Pete Cromer), which they are eager to take home and use in their creative play.

All year levels will soon embark on a visual project that they will see through from planning to presentation, based on a topic of their choice. This artwork will be used as part of the visual display for their yearly writing project presentation. We can alI look forward to seeing these displays as well as viewing some of their beautiful writing pieces, when they share them with the Oxley community later this term. 

Jacqui Kelly

Visual Art Teacher