Creativity AT IT’S FINEST

The Visual Arts Department at Lindisfarne has seen much growth in its elective numbers and success in the Higher School Certificate throughout 2022 and into 2023. The HSC class of 2022 achieved exceptional results across all components of the Visual Arts course. Students demonstrated their expertise in a variety of different media including; painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, digital, and mixed media. The class of 12 students was led by highly experienced HSC teacher, Belinda Hope.

Popular themes featured in the 2022 cohort for the Body of Work included; personal health stories, imaginative recollections of childhood, psychological conditions, studies into great western movies, exploration of site and personal interest topics. The completed artworks incorporated multiple artistic media, each of which was refined and resolved to a professional standard. Many of our students submitted under the expressive form Collection of Works, these artworks incorporated significant painting, sculptural, 3D printing and digital components, working together to form resolved Bodies of Work, some of which comprised more than 20 pieces of art.

The Major Works Showcase held in November received excellent attendance from the school community and many parents and visitors commented on the extraordinary work and effort our students had put into creating their Bodies of Work. It was an exciting time for the students to celebrate their hard work, some spending more than 300 hours on producing their artworks.

Some other notable achievements included four of our 2022 HSC students were nominated for ARTEXPRESS. Olivia Carroll was formally selected for ARTEXPRESS and her work was exhibited at the Hazelhurst Gallery in Sydney with other outstanding HSC Visual Arts students from 2022. Cate Roberts, Chloe Guye and Elise Noakes are also to be commended on their impressive results and ARTEXPRESS nominations.

The art rooms are always a hive of activity at lunchtimes and we often see students from all year levels working in conjunction with each other in the classrooms and creating artwork together. We welcome anyone who is interested in dabbling in Visual Arts to come down and speak to one of our friendly staff to learn more about what we offer in Visual Arts.

Jane Brennan Director of Visual Arts