Visual Arts

This week’s banner is is from Scarlett Gibson-Williams.

Student Works

We are proud to share that Scarlett Gibson-Williams (Year 12) has been awarded a Category Prize in the Woollahra Youth Photographic Award for her work Twist.

Scarlett says about this work:

Twist explores the duplicity in ballet as an art form. Each day, a ballerina’s every movement and action are questioned. The audience, or an external perspective, sees ballet as effortless, delicate, and an enchanting form of art. While a dancer loves what they do, behind the closed curtain can lie a world of pain (emotional, mental, and physical), sacrifice, and self-sabotage.

Extreme lights and darks are incorporated to portray these two perspectives. The darkness symbolises the experiences of physical damage, and fierce competition, while the light is a symbol of the grace and beauty of the audience’s perspectives, and the delicate nature of the costumes worn by the dancers. In this work the movement of the dancer is captured in a ghostly manner, sometimes making it seem like there are multiple dancers. In those, the dancer looks back at herself, seeing the pain and beauty.

We were also thrilled to see Eva Litosh’s Year 7 portrait work that she completed in class and as part of her assignment in term 1 selected to hang in the window of the Bellevue Gallery. Congratulations Eva!

School Holiday Workshops at The National Art School are back to Inspire Young Artists

NAS is excited to host their Spring School Holiday programs for 2022! Their on-campus workshops provide young people ranging from ages 6–16 with real-world opportunities to engage with artists, art-making and other forms of creative production. The workshops are running from Monday 26 September to Friday 7 October 2022.

You can view the range of courses here.

Heidi Jackson
Head of Visual Arts