Visual Arts – Film Making and Animation Short Course Now Available!

We are offering a short course in Film Making and Animation for interested students on Friday afternoons starting 20 November. There will be two sessions run by Claudia Leonard. Students are invited to come along, learn some basic skills and then let their imagination run wild, applying what they have learned over the holidays or in their spare time.

Claudia is an Old Girl (Class of 2020) who graduated with a BFA (Animation) from the Victorian College of the Arts. She works currently across animation, sculpture, projection, and spatial installation and more recently casting and jewellery design.

Claudia has directed animated short films including Searchlight (2023), Last Call At the Parade (2022) – which won Best Animation at the Sydney Women’s International Film Festival – and Unstitching (2021). Claudia has also just returned from showing her jewellery work at the 2026 Australian Fashion Week.

This activity is open to all students in Years 7 to 12. Students should arrive at JF4 to meet Claudia for their first class on Friday 20 November.

This week’s banner is an excerpt of Year 10 student Juliette Horeau’s recent photographic series on Cockatoo Island/Wareamah.

Heidi Jackson
Head of Visual Arts