Visual Arts news

Year 8 Art Extension Elective

Year 8 Students are utilising their knowledge and skills gained in their Year 7 studies to explore and develop their art making abilities. They have experimented in art making areas such as drawing, sculpture, and painting with great success during the semester. Key artworks have included detail still life paintings and jelly-plate printed artworks. (See image below)

Stage 5 ‘Restoring Traditions’ Elective

This semester students have continued to explore a range of art making materials, have created a number of fine artworks utilising various printmaking processes, and produced detailed surrealistic sculptural work in white clay. (See image below)

Stage 5 ‘Here & Now’ Elective

Students have developed skills with black and white design processes and created large lino prints, some of which were hand-coloured. (See image below) These images were also printed on fabric bags to be used as an ‘Art Product’. The class are currently creating large format paintings based on the imagery and techniques of contemporary street artists. 

Year 11/12 Visual Arts

Students are now Year 12 HSC Art students – they are currently developing ideas for their Bodies of Work (Major Art Projects) for next year’s HSC.

Wollongong City Gallery

Remember to drop by your local Art Gallery - Wollongong City Art Gallery (in Burelli Street) for exhibitions of local, national and international artists and their works. http://www.wollongongartgallery.com/exhibitions/Pages/default2021.aspx

National Art School (Sydney)

The National Art School in Surry Hills, Sydney is offering a number of short summer holiday art courses that ‘young creatives’ may be interested in:

https://nas.edu.au/product-category/school-holiday-workshops/january-2023/young-creatives-ages-13-16-january-2023/

Paul Milnes
Visual Arts Teacher - Year 8 Advisor