Visual Art

Visual Arts

Painting and Printmaking

During Lockdown #6, students from the Year 10 elective Painting and Printmaking, followed the art process to finalise their original and creative compositions for the serigraphy printmaking unit. Students had the choice of drawing their design with pencil on paper or digitally. When face-to-face teaching resumes, these designs will be printed onto black or calico fabric bags using our thermal printer.

Students have expressed the meaning behind their design:

Mercedes: The symbolism of the sun signifies the supreme cosmic power and the life-force that enables all things to thrive and grow. The moon represents intuitiveness, creativity, and manifestation. Collectively, the sun and moon symbolizes the unity of opposites and represent perfect unity as they balance each other out.

Gurleen: I’ve drawn many different types of flowers as I really love flowers/plants and nature. It’s something that makes me happy. I’ve then included a symbol at the very top between the two leaves which is called a ‘khanda.’ It is very significant to me and symbolises my Sikh Faith. 

Cathy: A lot of the time a laptop screen is given a bad rep, but in this piece it's made to depict comfort and contentment in what seems like isolation. The character in the scene seems burnt out, but is accompanied with a digital world where she can venture to a portal with literally godzilla and even dreamt about faraway cities - not just limited to this one.

Tharley: This design represents my lion dance team, which is basically family to me and the cars in this design represent something that makes me feel at peace; riding in a car or hopefully, soon being able to drive. The two colours I have chosen for this design; red and yellow represent good fortune and good luck in Asian culture and thus represents the culture of lion dance.

Indianna: I themed this serigraphy design on deep sea creatures. I wanted them to seem scary like most deep water creatures tend to. I hoped by adding in a kinder looking creature they're circled around they would come across as more curious and interesting than scary.

Christine: Florence Nightingale or The Lady with the Lamp is a revolutionary health official. She revolutionized the health and care towards her patients and installed sanitary protocols. The concept is hopeful but the design is quite dark. I wanted hands to try to reach for that light, being black to represent sickness and ill health.

Fros Stabologlou

Visual Arts Teacher