Visual Arts

This week’s banner is a work by Old Girl, Saskia McCarthy (CLASS OF 2019). Saskia’s HSC Body of Work was acquired by SCEGGS for the Katrina Collins Collection which is comprised of Year 12 works that the school purchases at the conclusion of each year. Due to COVID complications, many artworks have only been recently framed and returned to us ready to hang. We are so looking forward to finding new places around the campus to exhibit a number of works that will add new, fresh perspectives to the collection. Many of these works are depictions of recent experiences such as lockdowns, visual statements from Indigenous perspectives about the Pandemic, and conceptual examinations of politics and life during the past 3 years.

Year 11 Landscape Exhibition

Year 11 students recently mounted an impressive show of their works created in term 1 based on their investigation of the Australian Landscape. Students worked across a range of media areas including monoprinting, etching, digital photomedia, drawing and collage. A selection of their works are included here. We are excited to see them begin a new self-directed series of works this term based on the Found Object.

Head On Student Photographic Award 2022

Entries to the Head On Student Awards open Thursday, 5 May, for all Australian K-12 students.

The Awards are an excellent opportunity for students to explore the photographic medium and get real experience in an internationally-acclaimed photography festival.

Finalists get the chance to win from a prize pool of $70,000 and be a part of a high-profile exhibition in Sydney as a part of Head On Photo Festival 2022.

Making it Home workshop – Art-making in the Aquilizan Studio

Artists Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan are creating one of their impressively scaled cardboard sculptures for the opening of the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ expanded building in late 2022.

As part of a project titled Making it Home, the Art Gallery will hold a series of hosted workshops between April and September where visitors are invited to make their own cardboard ‘dream homes’, which may become part of the Aquilizans’ sculpture. 

Students are encouraged to drop by the studio space on lower level 2 on Wednesdays between 5.30pm and 8.30pm or Saturdays and Sundays between 11.30am and 1.30pm to find out if you can take part in that day’s workshops.

All materials and instructions are provided.

Numbers are strictly limited and there are no advance bookings.

Find out more here.

NAS Short Courses

Students can choose from eight different courses held on-campus, or one online course, in the fields of Drawing, Painting, Photomedia, Printmaking, Ceramics and Studio Extra. Those attending will meet other arts-lovers and be taught by experienced artist-educators. Gain new skills with demonstrations, exercises, and the creation of unique artworks, while expanding your conceptual knowledge at the annual NAS Autumn Weekend Workshops. Please click here for details.

Heidi Jackson
Head of Visual Arts