Art Excursion
On Monday April 1, Stage 5 & 6 Visual Art students travelled to the Art Gallery of NSW. Students had the experience of viewing the 2019 Artexpress exhibition, the New National and Chinese Bible and permanent exhibitions.
Artexpress is an annual exhibition featuring a selection of works from the previous year’s Visual Arts HSC candidates. The range of works included drawing, printmaking, painting, designed objects, ceramics, photography and animation.
Pages from Visual Arts Process Diaries were also on display providing students with the opportunity to view the process HSC candidates used to create their artworks, and giving students excellent examples on which they can model their own explorations.
The pages were full of ideas developing, experimentation's and reflections. Art works in the exhibition explored many issues from the impact of social media, virtual realities, personal family experiences and the production of meat for consumption.
The New National 2019, Australian art exhibition presented the latest ideas and forms in contemporary Australian art. Students were challenged by an array of installations. Drawing machines, kinetic sculpture, collections of found objects, video and glitch artworks all featured and the interactive and hands on work based on the stories of the blind which included braille, texture and sound was popular among the students. The exhibition is the second in a series of three biennial surveys.
The Chinese Bible exhibition explored the Cultural Revolution of China between the 1950’s – 1990’s. Yang Zhichao collected 3000 diaries by between 2005 to 2008 from secondhand stores. During a performance Yang Zhichao washed the diaries. The books have been exhibited in various art galleries around the world.
The students walked into the intimate space where the small diaries were exhibited in. Students recognised the desire the work generated, knowing the diaries were inscribed with personal entries of everyday life including love interests, instructions on how to play games and recipes, students were keen to pick them up to read.
Students also explored the two sections of permanent works. One section is European art what has been sourced from as far back as the 14th and 15th Centuries. Students also had an opportunity to walk through the 20th Century Australian art section. This area has a great cross section of artworks which have influenced Australian art during the last century.
Students found the experience to be invaluable. There was a vast array of very different art through each of the exhibitions and this was a great cultural experience for each of the students to participate in.
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Ms Genelle Keough | CALOTE KLA Leader