{"id":21415,"date":"2025-05-08T10:41:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T00:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/?post_type=article&#038;p=21415"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:41:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T00:41:12","slug":"visual-arts-113","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/article\/visual-arts-113\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Visual Arts Department we love to see SCEGGS students enter external art competitions, exhibitions, and prizes. While partaking in these opportunities takes a certain amount of grit, determination and bravery, we have witnessed students excel in these opportunities, gaining valuable experience by presenting their work to a wider audience along with receiving recognition for their efforts and skill.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples from the recent past include: Aurelia Cortese (Year 12 student) who was Highly Commended in the Waverley Woollahra 9 x 5 Landscape Prize in 2024; Imogen Zimmerle (Year 12 student) was selected for the Young Archies exhibition in 2023 at the Art Gallery of NSW with her hand drawn portrait of Ms Jenny Allum; Jade Brennan (class of 2024) a \u00a0finalist in the 2024 Australian Life Photography Competition and Bianca Rozsa (class of 2024) was awarded 1st prize for her short film <em>Suspended Arc <\/em>in the Waverley Woollahra Short Film Prize.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few current opportunities that we encourage SCEGGS students to enter: \u00a0<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Waverly Youth Art Prize<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Open to students aged between 9-18 years old. Submit an application online and deliver your work to Waverley Library by Friday 23 May.<\/p>\n<p>For more information click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waverley.nsw.gov.au\/recreation\/arts_and_culture\/waverley_youth_art_prize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Staedtler Secondary School Artist of the Year Competition.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Open to all students from Year 7 to 12, from Monday 12 May and closing on Thursday 19 June.<\/p>\n<p>For more information click <a href=\"https:\/\/au.competitions.staedtler.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>The Young Paddo Prize<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Australian landscape painting on A4 paper. Open to students aged 5-18 years old. Entries now open until Sunday 29 June.<\/p>\n<p>For more information click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paddingtonartprize.com.au\/youngpaddoprize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Youth Photographic Award and Short Film Prize.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Open to all students from Year 7 to 12, from Thursday 1 May to\u00a0 Friday 4 July <em><strong>Work to be submitted to the Art Department.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>For more information click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woollahragallery.com.au\/Artists\/Youth-Photographic-Award-and-Short-Film-Prize\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Banner Acknowledgement: This week\u2019s banner is by Zara Eade (Year 11).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Louise Willems<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Visual Arts Teacher<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Visual Arts Department we love to see SCEGGS students enter external art competitions, exhibitions, and prizes. While partaking in these opportunities takes a certain amount of grit, determination and bravery, we have witnessed students excel in these opportunities, gaining valuable experience by presenting their work to a wider audience along with receiving recognition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[],"article_tag":[71],"class_list":["post-21415","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/21415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=21415"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=21415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}