Visual Arts Leaders

Earlier in Term 1 our Visual Arts Student Leaders were introduced to the school community and were presented with their badges. We welcome Elizabeth Pound and Hannah Young as the 2024 Visual Arts leaders and the Visual Arts staff look forward to working with them this year.

Term 1 has been busy for students studying Art, Media and Visual Communication Design.

MACS Creative Arts Exhibition

The Creative Arts Exhibition showcases the wonderful artwork of primary and secondary students in the Archdiocese of Melbourne. It reflects their creativity in a broad range of impressive and inspiring works across various disciplines, including painting, photography, sculpture, fashion and film.

At the end of 2023, we entered three pieces into the Creative Arts Exhibition for 2024. Two of those were from the Visual Arts Learning Area. Congratulations to our students who were selected to have their work displayed at the exhibition.

Charlotte Sweeny
Year 12 Art Creative Practice (2023)
Dismemberment

Catalina Leitch
Year 12 Media (2023)
Look Up

Award Winner

We further congratulate Catalina who was the winner of the Photography & Media Arts Award –Secondary for Look Up at the exhibition.       

Art Exhibition Dates

The Catholic Education Week Creative Arts Exhibition will be in Celtic Hall, Catholic Leadership Centre, 576 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne 3002

The exhibition will be open for public viewing on the following days and times:
Friday 15 March from 12.00pm to 7pm and Saturday 16 March from 11.00am to 4.00pm

Year Level Update

Art

Year 7
Our new Year 7 students are currently working on an interpretation of possum skin cloaks, which reflect traditional Indigenous Australian traditions and storytelling.

Year 8
The Year 8 students are currently learning about clay-coil construction and working with clay using decorative qualities.

Year 9
Our Year 9 students are working on their art process aiming to create a 3D installation with ceramic, painting and timber elements. They are creating a self-portrait that doesn’t realistically represent their faces but expresses who they are symbolically.

Year 10
The Year 10 students are currently working on ceramic pieces which reflect the real and absurd!

Year 11
The Year 11 students are working on their art process as preparation for their large-scale personal drawing. They are exploring various techniques and mediums. Their artistic influence for the drawing is Australian indigenous artist, Iluwanti Ken, whose artwork we saw recently at the NGV Triennial.

Visual Communication Design

In Year 9, students have been working on creating realistic self-portraits as preparation for the personal Avatar they’ll create using Adobe Illustrator.

Media

In Year 10 Media, students have been looking at the key media principles and experimenting with sound to change the genre of a movie trailer. They have completed their first assessment a ‘Recut Trailer’ and begun delving into the world of media literacy, discovering why it is important to be media literate in this digital landscape and with ever-changing technological developments.

They have also been working on a Social Media campaign. Below is Amira Bird’s Social Media Campaign highlighting International Women’s Day.

VCE Art Creative Practice

NGV Triennial Excursion

On Friday 23 February, the Year 11 and 12 Art students went to the National Gallery of Victoria. We were focused on observing the new Triennial exhibition specifically, which contains artworks from over 100 different artists. All of these contemporary artworks helped us as Art students to become inspired by the different use of materials that we usually don’t see very often.

We were led by an instructor who showed us different artworks and we had conversations about the three lenses which our study design is built upon: personal, cultural and structural. We also discussed what the meaning behind them could be, which was thought-provoking for us as students, to understand the different ways that we all can perceive artwork.

Hannah Young and Elizabeth Pound
Visual Arts Leaders