{"id":25352,"date":"2026-04-30T11:47:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/?post_type=article&#038;p=25352"},"modified":"2026-04-30T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T01:47:48","slug":"visual-arts-131","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/article\/visual-arts-131\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Visual Arts Department love to see SCEGGS students enter external art competitions, exhibitions and prizes.<\/p>\n<p>While partaking in these opportunities takes a certain amount of planning, 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:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aurelia Cortese (2025) who was Highly Commended in the Waverley Woollahra 9 x 5 Landscape Prize in 2024<\/li>\n<li>Imogen Zimmerle (2025) was selected for the Young Archies exhibition in 2023 at the Art Gallery of NSW with her hand drawn portrait of former Head of School Ms Jenny Allum<\/li>\n<li>Jade Brennan (2024) a \u00a0finalist in the 2024 Australian Life Photography Competition<\/li>\n<li>Bianca Rozsa (2024) was awarded 1st prize for her short film <em>Suspended Arc <\/em>in the Waverley Woollahra Short Film Prize<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are a few current opportunities that we encourage SCEGGS students to enter:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are links to three Prizes for young people that are currently open. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.woollahragallery.com.au\/ypa\"><strong>PHOTOGRAPHY and FILMMAKING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Woollahra Youth Photographic Award and Short Film Prize. Submissions due: Monday, 6 July<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwas.org.au\/9x5-landscape-prize-2026\/\"><strong>LANDSCAPE PAINTING (16 years and older)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Waverley Woollahra 9 x 5 Landscape Prize. Submissions due: 9 July<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paddingtonartprize.com.au\/youngpaddoprize\"><strong>LANDSCAPE PAINTING (open to all year groups)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Young Paddo Prize. Submissions due: 28 June<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s banner is from Year 11 student, Alexus Gordon\u2019s Body of Work on the Australian landscape.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heidi Jackson<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Head of Visual Arts<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Visual Arts Department love to see SCEGGS students enter external art competitions, exhibitions and prizes. While partaking in these opportunities takes a certain amount of planning, 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":25353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[],"article_tag":[71],"class_list":["post-25352","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\/25352","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=25352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=25352"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/sceggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=25352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}