Visual Arts

We are so proud to announce that Year 10 student Imogen Zimmerle is a finalist in the Young Archies Competition with a portrait of Ms Allum. This is a very special moment for Imogen as submissions to this prize are of such a high quality and artworks are selected from a very large field of entrants based on merit and originality.

Imogen’s work will be displayed at the Art Gallery of NSW concurrent to the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes exhibition. You can view Imogen’s work from 6 May through to 3 September 2023. We look forward to taking all of our year 7 students later this term.

Imogen says:

In my portrait, I have chosen to depict my school headmistress, Ms Jenny Allum. Although she is not someone I speak to every day, she is a huge influence in my life. Ms Allum has provided me with many opportunities at SCEGGS Darlinghurst, which have greatly impacted who I am. The school art program gave me the motivation to start taking art seriously.

Also, on show this year in the Archibald is Old Girl, Elize Gosse (Class of 2012), with a dual portrait featuring herself and her husband, architect and designer Benjamin Jay Shand, who was the subject of her portrait Somewhere near home in the Archibald Prize 2022.

Eliza describes this 2023 work – one of several recent portraits, all painted on board – as: ‘a cut-out of our weekend at sunrise – just us and our fluffy robes’.

This week’s banner is a work from Year 11 student Emily McPhail’s Term 1 collection based on the Landscape.

Heidi Jackson
Head of Visual Arts