Visual Arts

The Art Department is pleased to share our Co-curricular program for Semester 1!

Students are encouraged to attend the Co-curricular Expo tomorrow at lunchtime in the Sports Hall where our Art Captain Jade Brennan will be present to answer questions about the opportunities on offer in 2024. Classes will commence in Week 4.

This semester we offer:

• Observational Drawing,
• Darkroom Photography, and
• Painting course

Tutors are highly experienced educators and practising artists. Darkroom Photography is run by Ian Lever who is a professional photographer with decades of national and international experience. His work is widely acknowledged especially his social documentation of Sydney Life.

Painting and Drawing classes are tutored by Lilli Stromland who is both an Old Girl (Class of 2012) and a Graduate of the National Art School. She is an exceptionally skilled artist who has established a successful fine arts career. Lilli continues to build a strong critical and commercial following.

Classes are as follows:

Classes are capped at eight for each session of Darkroom Photography and 15 for Drawing and Painting with a waitlist option. Art students are given priority enrolment in Years 9 to 12 with possible non-elective student participation available if spaces are free. The program begins again in Semester 2.

Here are some works from our students from the past:

Further information and sign up is available through Clipboard.

We also have a student led Art magazine, SCOPE. Anyone can submit articles, reviews or essays to SCOPE and we are in the process of receiving applications for the position of Editor. This role is open to students in Years 9 and 10 and we encourage these Visual Arts students to seize this opportunity to extend their leadership skills in this unique position. Students have been emailed details of how to apply.

This week’s banner is Harper Jones’s drawing that was awarded the Howard Tanner Drawing Prize at Speech Night last year.

Heidi Jackson
Head of Visual Arts