The Arts
Emerald Secondary Students participate in the Cardinia Reconciliation Week exhibition at The Hills Hub
As part of Reconciliation Week, students from surrounding primary and secondary schools produced artwork to display what ‘reconciliation’ meant to them. “The artwork that the students have produced is really amazing…Cockatoo [Primary School] has produced over 300 clay tiles and Gembrook Primary School have produced these beautiful message sticks, and the high school students have then taken their own interpretation with some beautiful dolls and photography,” Cardinia Shire Council’s Hills Hub Place maker Anna Benjamin said.
“We all have an important role to play in reconciliation, as we move forward towards collectively creating a stronger relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous peoples, for the benefit of the entire community,” Cardinia Mayor Cr Springfield said at the opening of the exhibition.
Uncle Ian Hunter began the event with a smoking ceremony surrounded by students from Menzies Creek Primary School, Emerald Primary School and Emerald Secondary College, Gembrook Primary School, Cockatoo Primary School, CFA members and Victoria Police.
Each school was awarded with a certificate of appreciation for their work.
Cindy Mikieciuk - Art Domain Leader
Emerald Secondary College represented at TOPshots 2022
Class of 2021 Captain Ella Chawkley (alongside her work ‘Illusory’) at the opening of Monash Gallery of Art’s TOPshots exhibition. It was fantastic to see Emerald Secondary College represented in the exhibition for the first time, as well as recognition of Ella’s tireless work in Studio Arts in 2021.
MGA is Australia’s leading public art gallery devoted to the collection and exhibition of photography, and TOPshots is its annual exhibition showcasing outstanding artwork produced by students studying the VCE subjects of Art, Media and Studio Arts. The TOPShots Exhibition will be on display at MGA in Wheelers Hill until Sunday the 26th of June.
Dale Fyfe - Art
Emerald Secondary School delivery of ‘truck load’ of air purifiers creates STEAM opportunity for Year 9 students.
A recent delivery of 90 new air purifiers has overtaken the art department and resulted in a mountain of packaging to dispose of. Rather than wasting these resources the Year 9 STEAM design class brainstormed ideas for ‘machines of torture’. Students creatively engineered cardboard and polystyrene iron maidens, contraptions that guided skull splitting blocks onto hapless victims’ heads and guillotines. The class had the chance to ‘test’ out their ideas on each other, although perhaps the Department employee who ordered so many purifiers could have helped us out here as well. (No one was harmed during this collaborative exercise).
Year 10 Ceramics Students get ‘a head’.
It was so satisfying to see the culmination of an enormous amount of hard work by some of the Year 10 Ceramics students as their Hero busts were finally finished.
Cindy Mikieciuk - Art Domain Leader
10 Visual Communication Design students create records
Students have been using manual or digital drawing techniques to design their own vinyl record packaging. These are either recreations of existing albums or soundtracks, or artists/albums which they have invented themselves. It was great to see a range of different materials and aesthetics explored by the students in their designs.
Year 9 Art
Year 9 2D Art students have currently been working on pieces inspired by post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh.
Dale Fyfe - Art and VCD