Visual Arts

The Annual Woollahra Gallery Youth Photographic Awards and Short Film Prize 2024 is now open for entries!

All students at SCEGGS are encouraged to put forward work for this exhibition.

Please send work to Ms Jackson via email as we submit together as a school.

Student photographs can be processed and manipulated either in a dark room or digitally.

Entries can be in colour or black and white.

All photographs to be submitted in a digital format only.

Digital format photographs must be a minimum of 2mb or 300dpi. (The Art Department can help you with this if you need)

We encourage you to be as experimental and innovative as you like!

Key dates

Please visit the gallery webpage for all information and how to enter, or drop by the Staffroom.

Co-curricular Drawing

In Term 1 Ms Allum and Ms Gyton were asked during the Year 7 Parent Information Evening to assist in making a creative problem for an Art student to solve using the key values and attitudes taught in the SCEGGS Art classroom such as:

• Planning
• Critical thinking
• Problem solving
• Initiative and persistence
• Confidence
• Ingenuity
• Imagination
• Innovation
• Creativity

The co-curricular drawing class have seized the opportunity to use their skills and imagination in this task.

What is so impressive about these drawings is that beyond their technical skill and meticulous or expressive execution, is the resourcefulness and confidence to transform a few lines on a blank field of paper into such evocative imagery that is so compelling for the viewer!

These students demonstrate that the act of making art develops so many essential skills, particularly problem solving and the ability to come up with ideas and develop them. These are not only valuable assets in the Art classroom but across all learning areas at school and especially sought after in the 21^st Century workplace.

Here is Ms Allum’s and Ms Gyton’s original work:

And here are student’s responses:

This week’s banner is Year 12 student Bianca Rozsa’s submission to the Woollahra Youth Photography Award from 2023 titled Cocooned.

Heidi Jackson
Head of Visual Arts