Visual Arts

Stella Nguyen Head of Visual Arts

Visual Arts at Shelford is where we develop unique artists with an appreciation for the artists, cultures and movements before them. They learn how to identify and use the elements and principles of art and design to create works that reflect and express their personal creativity, aesthetic, skill, purpose and meaning from their own world and the world around them.

The start of 2023 has seen staff changes to our Visual Arts department with Stella Nguyen as Head of the Visual Arts Faculty, Simone Lewis leading the new VCE Art Making and Exhibiting course (formerly Studio Arts) and Rachel Kafka teaching the Year 8 Film Studies unit We welcomed to the team Narelle Bentley who has been further developing our Visual Communication Design courses

Among our staff changes has been a hive of energy and many events in Semester One of this school year We had many opportunities to appreciate artists out there in the world through the following exhibition visits and tours:

• VCE Art Making and Exhibiting Excursion, reviewing and responding to Top Arts 2023 exhibition, art galleries with The Nicholas Building and Melbourne Now exhibition

• VCE Visual Communication Design Excursion visiting Top Designs and Crumpler Studio and Workshop in Fitzroy�

• Year 8 Film Studies Excursion to ACMI,

• Year 9 Arts Alive which included walking tours of Flash Forward Street art project, a tour of Melbourne architecture, visits to the Melbourne Design Fair, NGV Ian Potter and a Photography Challenge�

The Visual Arts Faculty has also introduced three lunchtime Art Clubs which run fortnightly and include our:

• Self-directed Art Studio – students to explore their own ideas and concepts with guidance and feedback from teacher to take their ideas and artistic skills further

• Design Studio – Exploring sustainable design and prototyping

• Multimedia Studio – Digital based products such as animation, stop motion, digital art, elements of photography and editing

The Visual Arts Faculty also created an Instagram page to showcase and celebrate our student artists It is a great way to share with our community our student talent but also an opportunity for students to learn how to showcase artworks considering what to write, how to crop, consider the layout of an individual image within a series of images and documenting art processes and development, just like professional artists do to promote their work via social media

Follow us @shelfordarts to see regular updates celebrating completed artworks and artworks in progress by our artists here at Shelford We also hope you enjoy this small collection of curated artworks across P-12 in this edition of Q Magazine