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VISUAL ARTS NEWS

The long awaited Pat Bourke Gallery opened this year and as a result we have been able to showcase the outstanding work of our talented students, at all year levels. We are looking forward in 2017 and beyond to have this opportunity to broaden our audience to take the Visual Arts from the art rooms to our community. We were also able to showcase the Arts in general at our annual Arts Assembly, which took place in July. Highlighting the diversity in the Arts within our school environment. Senior Arts Leader, Antoine Saleh and Visual Art Teacher Mr Simon Cahir combined efforts with many in our team to produce a creative and entertaining assembly of Visual Media and Music Performance. On Tuesday 11 October we celebrated the creative work of Year 12 Studio Arts, Visual Communication Design, Media, Food, Design and Systems Technology. The Exhibition was held in The Pat Bourke Gallery and was opened by past student, Artist and Co-director of Boom Gallery, Ren Inei. Many students attended with their parents, families and friends. Teachers and friends of the College also attended. It was a great night and the first of many wonderful exhibitions to be held in our lovely new gallery. Congratulations to Waadhi Conole who was awarded the Principal’s Acquisitive Award for 2016. Congratulations to all students who exhibited their work and we wish them every success with their upcoming exams. We hope you enjoy the following overviews by the students and the images which give you a snapshot of our student achievement.

- Anne Condon & Helen Kean, Arts Domain Leaders

YEAR 8 3D ART

We started 3D art in Semester 2, we were positive that we were going to have a good semester with the class. We kicked off the first term with an interesting project, we made bugs out of recycled materials. We planned and made our bugs, it took us a while because we wanted them to look their best knowing that they were going to be on display. The next project was the most fun project, we got our hands dirty and made dragons out of

Declan Brown, Declan Brown, Year 8

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Isaak De Agrela - Isaak De Agrela - Year 10

Year 8 Recycled Material Bugs

Charlie Donohue, Charlie Donohue, Year 10 Nicholas Van Meel, Nicholas Van Meel, Year 10

clay. We constructed the dragons using techniques that we learned throughout the term, they turned out great. For the last topic we put our brains together and formed groups to work on a project of any choice, like sculptures, blankets, fake food and much more. Over all it was a fun semester with the class.

- Benjamin Clark, 8J & Jack Bentley, 8I YEAR 8 2D ART

In 2D Art, I participated in learning about the different aspects, materials and styles that can be used when creating art. I completed a visual analysis of different artworks and gained an understanding of the different ways to paint. In completing these tasks, I have gained a range of skills such as how to write about art, paint, draw and use different techniques such as stippling and crosshatching. I had never been interested in art that much before but the things I like most about this subject is that it opened my eyes to different art and how interesting, creative and fun it can be to make art.

- Mackenzie Ewings, 8D YEAR 8 2D ART

This year I chose to do the subject 2D Art. In the subject, we covered a variety of topics. These were: Impressionist painting and drawing, where we got to choose a landscape to paint, lino printing, where we took a photo and then made a lino print from it and we also did some theory on Vincent van Gogh and French Impressionism. These tasks have given me the skills of trying things that I wouldn’t usually do, as well as my knowledge of different art styles. I enjoyed this subject because it covered a variety of tasks and I learnt a lot about these different types of art styles, art elements and principles as well as Van Gogh and French Impressionism. My painting skills improved also.

- Clancy Hehir, 8G YEAR 10 2D ART

This year, the class has studied a wide range of art which included printmaking, a drawing unit and an abstract painting unit. These topics have given us the opportunity to look deeper into different art forms. The class itself is fun but work is always expected to get done in the time set. I really enjoyed the abstract painting because we got to

Christian Del Guidice - Year 11 Studio Arts - Year 11 Studio Arts

choose whatever image we like and then we had to manipulate it using Photoshop. We sketched our image onto a canvas and then painted it to create our final product.

- Nicholas Pratt, 10K YEAR 10 INTRODUCTION TO STUDIO ARTS

This year in Introduction to Studio Arts, the class have worked on a multimedia task in which we made a piece of art commenting on a social issue using different mediums. We then completed a photography unit based on light and weather, a painting task following the theme of “Where do I Belong” and our most recent task a sculpture unit. The new skills I will take with me from this class will be, stronger ability and the development of my technical skills (particularly in sculpting). I have also used this subject to further my ability to analyse visual art, which makes looking at and interpreting art far more interesting for me now. My favourite thing about this subject is that there aren’t many of my friends in this class, so I get time to myself to think and stay focused, which also helps me ponder new ideas to create.

-Angus Moore, 10C STUDIO ARTS UNITS 1 & 2

This year we created a range of different artworks, all exploring a range of different materials and techniques to prepare for next year. Art Units such as Drawing, Printmaking, Painting, Sculpture and Photography were all explored. These were areas a lot of us didn’t have much experience with, but have been able to grow a greater understanding for during our work this year. I didn’t even know what printmaking was and now I can tell you who my favourite printmaking artist is and what my favourite print is. I really enjoyed the freedom and flexibility of this subject. I enjoyed the fact I was given the topic and then could work on my own ideas.

- William Devine, 11C YEAR 11 MEDIA

Year 11 media was a journey of self-discovery in a number of ways. Throughout the year we were not only educated about the film production process, representations and reflections, but

Year 7 Clay Creatures

Oliver Stephens, Year 7

Jake McCorkell, Year 10 Folio

Clancy Hehir, Year 8

we also learned about ourselves and our own learning through our own media productions. We even managed to go on an amazing excursion to the set of The Project. Mr Arthurson and Miss Goring were a massive help during the year and we as students can’t thank them enough for all they have done for us. Without the experience that we have gained from this year, it would not be possible to progress into Year 12 and further our studies of media in 2017, which I’m sure, we will all thoroughly enjoy.

- Callum McGough, 11H DRAWING & DESIGN , VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN – YEAR 8

Year 8 Visual Communication Design has been fun, engaging and exciting. We have learned how to make a typeface by using letters, numbers and symbols. We designed the Westcourt diary cover for 2017. We learned the Elements and Principles and utilised them in our work. Each class member designed and created a one or two perspective children’s book cover. The cover had to include a hand drawn background and character. We achieved all our goals set for art this year.

- Darcy Brocks, 8B & Brodie Hynam, 8A INDUSTRIAL DESIGN, VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN-YEAR 8

During Year 8 Industrial Design the class completed a number of tasks in order to create a diary cover and a bus shelter. Along the way we constructed folios that outline our design brief, visualisation drawings, orthogonal and isometric drawings, and many more design processes. We created the diary covers on our laptops using Photoshop which allowed us to learn both design and technology skills. While creating the bus shelters we created our own design brief, we then created our visualisation sketches which were our ideas for the bus shelter. After that we did a number of drawings before moving on to making models. It is a great subject and everyone in the class was happy and enjoyed the tasks.

- Jarryd Wood, 8E & Frederick Dripps, 8E

Year 11 Media Excursion Excursion

Matthew Eld - Year 8 Bus Shelter Design Year 8 Industrial Design Danny Quach Danny Quach - Year 10 - Year 10 Photography Photography

FOLIO, VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN-YEAR 10

Year 10 Folio Presentation had two main tasks, creating a scale model of a restaurant or café, and a menu stand to go into our café. We created our own design briefs to follow throughout the project. We used programs like Photoshop and Illustrator. The menu stand we created reflected the aesthetics and theme of our café. Being a small class created opportunities for one on one talks with the teacher to aid and assist our tasks. Overall the subject provides a more hands on, architectural take on design.

- Tom Curran, 10E VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN, YEAR 11 UNITS 1 & 2

During Unit 1 and 2 Visual Communication Design, we undertook multiple Outcomes that taught us different skills that relate to the everyday designers. During Unit 1, we learned to draw realistic images using different techniques, to work towards designing and drawing our very own USB stick, fully rendered and scaled. The second half was a movie poster design. Personally this was my favourite because we had freedom over what we wanted to do all the while sticking to a self-written brief. The second unit allowed

Robbie Rollins, Year 8 Drawing & Design

Bottle Designs

us the chance to design a diary cover for next year’s seniors or juniors, create a logo and advertisement for a company and finally enhance our drawing abilities. The subject was fun, but requires time and effort from students wanting to do well. Overall, recommended to people looking at any type of design from industrial to digital to architectural, and is a good introduction to presenting designs to clients.

VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN, YEAR 12 UNITS 3 & 4

In Unit 3 and 4 Visual Communication Design we undertook two different major design tasks while both focusing on the process used in real life design industry. We were given the opportunity to conduct an interview with a designer and gain an insight into the real design world. The first outcome was to design an advertisement for a kitchen company. This outcome taught us different technical drawings that were incorporated some way into the final design. In the final design outcome we were given a lot of freedom to design a range of material for a client of our choice. Because of the freedom we had the ability to design something we were interested in and could be proud of.

- Cameron Parke, 12C

Noah Van Galen - Year 8 Industrial Design Joel Downie - VC Unit 2 - VC Unit 2

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