Visual Arts

Old Girl Lilli Stromland (Class of 2012), co-curricular tutor in Painting and Drawing and Art Assistant in the Visual Arts Department, is a finalist in the Portia Geach Portrait Prize with her work Self-portrait thinking of röllakan. The Portia Geach Memorial Award is Australia’s most prestigious art prize for portraiture by women artists. You can view the exhibition up until 1 November.

In other news, Charlotte Barnes (Class of 2020) has just been announced as a finalist in the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. The Brett Whiteley Studio, administered by the Art Gallery of New South Wales, awards an annual travelling art scholarship to artists aged between 20 and 30 with an established body of work. Charlotte’s work Recollection is on view at the Brett Whiteley Studio in Surry Hills until 22 November 2026.

Lovely to see our Old Girls continuing to shine in the art world!

This week’s banner is a work by Year 9 student Sienna Lim.

Heidi Jackson
Head of Visual Arts