Art Design & technology

This year the Art, Design and Technology Department undertook a new partnership with ACT Historic Places to give Year 7 Visual Arts students an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the local history of our area through the exploration of Lanyon Homestead and surrounding areas.

Students understood that the landscape portrays a range of layers of Aboriginal occupation. Each Year 7 class visited the Lanyon Homestead for an afternoon with their teacher and spent time exploring the site and collecting images and stories through observational drawing and photography. They then created artworks in the Visual Art classes that represented the students and where they lived.

– Kate Deeves, Head of Art, Design & Technology

YEAR 12 MAJOR WORKS

Year 12 students have produced Major Design Project and Bodies of Work across three courses within the Art Design and Technology Department:

• HSC Visual Arts • IB Visual Arts • HSC Design and Technology

In the HSC courses, students work as practising artists in an area of the Visual Arts that they would like to master. Some of these areas include but are not limited to, Drawing, Painting and Photo media. This year students have produced a wide range of artworks looking at themes including the environment, mental health, and duality of culture.

In the IB course, students work as studio artists to produce a Body of work consisting of up to 11 artworks. They create artworks using a range of expressive forms, and this year students have worked in Painting, Drawing, Collage and Sculpture. AT the end of the course, students present their work as a curated exhibition.

In Design and Technology, HSC students work as Designers to identify a need and develop innovative solutions to create a designed product. This product is submitted at the end of the course and a Design portfolio that documents the process from initial design ideas through experimentation to evaluation of the final product. This year’s projects range from Architectural models, Cutlery solutions for arthritis to compactable rubbish solutions while hiking.

The passion and drive of the Year 12 students is evident in the outstanding work produced over the year, especially given the challenge of being in lockdown.

– Kate Deeves, Head of Art, Design & Technology MINKA MILO

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