Visual Communications

Year 9 NGV Excursion

On Tuesday 11th February, Kerrilee Pearson’s and Fros Stabologlou’s Year 9 Art classes, along with Ms De Leggo, attended an excursion to the NGV Ian Potter Centre at Federation Square.

Upon arrival, the students were greeted by the Educational Officers. They spent an hour with our students, developing their understanding with the artworks in the ‘Marking Time- Indigenous Art from the NGV’ exhibition. The exhibition explores drawings and markings of figures, signs or text made on public surfaces across Indigenous Australia, from rock face to now. The impulse to draw and make images is deeply embedded in Indigenous cultures throughout the world and is fundamental to the human experience. We saw artworks by artists of the Western Desert transfer designs from the ceremonial ground and body to the wider world of circulating images on gallery walls. Reko Rennie and Brook Andrew translate incisions on carved trees or shields into bold neon icons. Whereas Josh Muir and Hannah Brontë, use video art to communicate voices of dissent, create dialogue between groups and to effect change.

At the conclusion of the talk by the Educational Officer, students selected their favourite painting to analyse. This work will be continued in the classroom and become the basis of their Art analysis.

It was exciting to see students engaged in the talk and the responses they wrote in their Art booklets.

Fros Stabologlou

Art teacher