VISUAL ARTS
VIRTUAL EXPERIENCES IN ART
Last week our Year 9 Sculpture students participated in an augmented reality (AR) activity at the East Campus. Using AR applications, students went on an expedition through the East Campus to find virtual artworks by the artist KAWS. This allowed students to re-engage with their surroundings in a new and innovative way.
This activity was an introduction to digital sculpture and 3D Printing, questioning our students understanding of the potential of Art in the 21st century.
Peter Eglezos
Learning Area Manager - Visual Arts
YEAR 12 MEDIA: ABOUT ME VIDEOS
Media is a unique subject as students have the opportunity to explore their creativity across a variety of media forms. Moreover, in the twenty-first century, there are students who undertake media that have vested interests across media products, both as consumers and producers.
The ‘About Me Video Task’ assigned to the Year 12 Media class helped students to identify and explore their prior media experiences. The subject of media provides students with a sense of autonomy as they develop their creative ideas and make connections to how they and others use media. The following videos from Liana Kelemen, Alice Connolly, Jordan Berger and Gregory Liarakos convey enthusiasm for the creative process which media students engage in.
CERAMICS
In Year 10 Ceramics, students are brainstorming ideas for our upcoming task where we make ceramic planters inspired by our local neighbourhood.
Last Friday we all went on a walk to Joyce Park and took pictures of things we could incorporate into the task. We also practised different clay building techniques we could use to make the planters. Some pots we have made are pinch pots, coil pots and slab pots. Ceramics is always a nice relaxing class where you can catch up with friends.
Miyu Cho & Nicole Nguyen
Year 10 Students
SAT FOLIO ADVICE FOR STUDIO ARTISTS
Hello Studio Artists!
If the idea of having to complete a full folio for Studio Arts this year has got you feeling a little lost or overwhelmed… don’t worry, you are definitely not alone. Here are some of my tips for surviving and smashing 3/4 Studio. I hope they are helpful.
First of all, just start
Don’t waste your time trying to perfect every idea in your head before you get it down on paper. It’s best to jot down any little idea you have and just keep building them up. Some of you may think you already know exactly what you want to create, and some of you may have no clue.
Either way, the best idea is to mind map and constantly tweak and add to your ideas. Allow your ‘perfect vision’ to be worked and reworked, even if your heart is already set on the final product.
Work steadily and from the very beginning
It might seem like the folio deadline is ages away, but trust me, it will come around before you know it. The only way to get your folio into good shape is to work at it consistently and from the beginning. Lots of small efforts, even just 20 minutes of solid work most days, is so much better than trying to cram it all in a few nights. Think about having a space set up with your materials so that you don’t need to constantly set up and pack up to work.
Stay Inspired : )
Although choosing your inspirational artists is one of the first steps in building your folio, you shouldn’t stop there. Motivation and inspiration will come and go as the year goes on and you get busy with other things. For this reason, it is important to be constantly collecting and surrounding yourself with inspirational material that can help you to piece your own ideas and conceptual possibilities together as they evolve into potential directions and fully formed artworks. Stay open to ideas from anywhere and everywhere, remember that you can fall back on your artistic inspiration if you hit a roadblock.
It's not 'one size fits all'
Although you may only see those pinterest board perfect folio pages as examples, that is not the only way to do well. Just because a page is pretty or neat, doesn’t mean it is quality annotation or work and most importantly, there is no criterion for ‘neatness’ or ‘presentation’. Approaching the SAT in this way can be very limiting and cause you unnecessary stress because you are comparing yourself to somebody else’s journey. Save those messy pages of scribbled doodles as they may just turn out to be super important in your art making process. Every step counts, and every idea is important.
Just remember to reach out!
Finally, just remember to reach out for help if you need some extra guidance on how to meet the criteria, and always annotate those pages! Think of the annotations as insights into your thinking and little explanations of how and why each drawing, image, artwork is linked to your studio process.
Louisa D’Ambra
Studio Arts Class of ‘21