Visual Arts

We are thrilled to share that Aida Tristram and Charlotte Woollard in Year 11 have been accepted into the National Art School HSC Intensive. This is a course that draws applications from across the state and places are highly contested. To have two students accepted from SCEGGS is outstanding.

Aida has been accepted into the discipline of Life Drawing and Charlotte into Sculpture. We look forward to seeing their creative practice flourish in the atelier setting of one of Australia’s most renowned Art Schools.

Last Friday evening Lilli Stromland, (Class of 2012) our Visual Arts assistant and tutor in Drawing and Painting in the Visual Arts Co-curricular program, was announced the winner of Ravenswood Women’s Emerging Artist Art Prize, one of 3 categories awarded for Professional, Emerging and Emerging Indigenous artists. With over 1,934 entries from across the country, this is another outstanding achievement for women in the arts, for the SCEGGS art department and community, and for Lilli who is resuming her teaching and art assistant role in Term 3 following her Painting Sabbatical in Europe.

The judges described Lilli winning entry, “Ode to Peaches and Cleaning” as a “joyful and closely observed celebration of incidental objects that explore contemporary Australian domesticity”. 

Works by Lilli and a broad range of other artists are still available for purchase via the Old Girls Art Exhibition. 

Enrich your life and help support access to the wonders of a SCEGGS education by supporting this exhibition!

Our best wishes from the SCEGGS Art Department for the holidays. May they be filled with creativity, peace and joy.

This weeks banner is a compilation of works from the Experimental Drawing classes held in Term 2 by Chris Gleisner.

Heidi Jackson
Head of Visual Arts