Visual Arts

The SCEGGS Art Department has a long and rich history of students excelling in the Visual Arts during and after graduation. In the past two years we have had the pleasure of sharing news of Imogen Zimmerle’s (Year 10) selection as a Young Archie with her portrait of Ms Allum, Eliza’ Gosse’s (Class of 2012) inclusion in the Archibald Prize in 2023 and 2020, and our drawing tutor and arts assistant Lilli Stromland’s (Class of 2012) sell out exhibition with Damien Minton in November last year, her show at Mars Gallery in Melbourne last week and another highly anticipated show scheduled for October in Sydney. You can view here work here:

You can view the full suite of works here.

Continuing the tradition of success, Georgia Brogan (Class of 2019) won the 2021 City of Sydney photography competition, Australian Life. She was the competition’s youngest-ever winner and received a $10,000 first-place prize for the cinematic capture of her younger sister. Lara Merrett (1989) also won the Professional Category of the Ravenswood Women’s art prize last year. Agatha Gothe-Snape (CLASS of 1997)  has completed several major public artwork commissions including Here, an Echo, co-commissioned by the Biennale of Sydney and the City of Sydney as and The Scheme was a Blueprint for Future Development Programs, 2015, at Monash University’s Caulfield Campus in Melbourne. Several new public artworks are currently in production. Louisa Dawson and Louise Willems (CLASS of 1997) are currently developing new Bodies of Work as part of a Visual Arts Department Staff show at the end of 2023.

So, we encourage all our current students to start getting involved with more Prizes and our current Year 12 students are invited to consider pursuing Tertiary Studies in Visual Arts at The National Art School Open Day.

The National Art School (NAS) is Australia’s leading fine art school, with an unrivalled studio-based teaching model that has delivered a rich tradition of artistic practice and generations of world-renowned alumni for the past 100 years. Leading into the 21st Century, NAS provides a progressive and holistic art education, and invites you to join them on Open Day to discover their creative community.

Ms Brennan in the Visual Arts Department has a wonderful new book to share with the School Community called Your Brain on Art.

Your brain on Art is a NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and provides a life-altering journey through the science of neuroaesthetics, which offers proof for how our brains and bodies transform when we participate in the arts—and how this knowledge can improve our health, enable us to flourish, and build stronger communities.

This week’s banner is Sienna Monahan’s Year 12 HSC Body of Work called Memory’ Misadventure.

Heidi Jackson
Head of Visual Arts