Creative / Cultivating Creativity

CULTIVATING creativity

Launceston Grammar’s Visual Arts Programme facilitates outstanding opportunities for students to be introduced to a variety of experiences, media and ideas that allow them to grow and develop within their own art practice and creative journey.

Through the programme, students are provided with avenues to explore traditional and contemporary media as well as the opportunity to embrace a variety of digital platforms including the still and the moving image. Grammar TV and annual photography competitions such as SNAP ensure students are nurtured through these programmes and activities.

Field trips to events including the Glover Art Prize, local exhibition openings at the University of Tasmania, and for TCE Grade 11 and 12 students, the annual Sydney Art Trip provide exceptional opportunities for students to extend their experience and knowledge beyond the boundaries of the Senior Campus. The Sydney itinerary includes a visit to the NSW Art Gallery, Brett Whitely Studio, National Art School, White Rabbit Art Gallery, UNSW Art & Design and the Museum of Contemporary Art.

The Poimena Gallery, based at the Senior Campus, offers the perfect environment for creativity to mature in its many forms. It is a tremendous asset for students that allows for a considered interaction with art practitioners. Students can also appreciate how ideas become 2D or 3D in reality within a gallery space.

At Launceston Grammar we believe that authentic engagement and experience within the visual arts provide context and clarity for students to be creative and forward thinking. Our teachers themselves are imaginative, creative and passionate about the programmes they teach. They have a genuine desire to encourage our students’ talents so their creativity shines brilliantly.

Paul Snell, Head of Visual Art