Visual Arts - Years 9 and 10
In Year 9, students will investigate all areas of the Visual Arts including Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Ceramics, Printmaking and Photography to make artworks that are reflective and personal; investigating the physical and psychological world. Students investigate how practice in the field of Visual Arts is shaped by values and beliefs about the individual, social structures and the artworld. Critical and historical studies of artworks are provided with opportunities to investigate how and why artists make artworks, and how and why art historians and critics write about artworks.
In Year 10, the course focuses on Deeper Knowledge and skills of the conventions of Visual Arts practice in Art Making, Art Criticism and Art History through a broad or specialised investigation of all expressive areas. Students begin to make decisions about how to apply aspects of practice to making Bodies of Work and how artworks represent their intentions and communicate meanings. Year 10 culminates in the creation of a sophisticated production of a BODY OF WORK.
Year 10 - The Urban Environment
Students have explored the theme of the urban landscape and have completed a drawing portfolio that demonstrates a strong understanding of composition (based on photographs), detail and tone of the local urban environment in preparation for your painting. We can see that our students have captured iconic Bondi Beach using gouache and fine line pen.
Year 10 -The Natural Environment
Students created a Postmodern Mix Media Artwork, which represented The Natural Environment and or / an Environmental Issue. The students were directed to consider integrating natural forms in an interesting and unusual way. They also referred to the work of John Wolseley, Andy Goldsworthy , Fiona Hall, Merran Esson and other environmental artists in the aesthetics of the form.
Year 9 - Term 2 2020 Remote Learning
Using the theme “Me, Myself and Isolation”, Year 9 students developed a set of 5 postcards (one for every weekday), which focused on a Self-portrait and your representation of this theme through a range of mixed media such as drawing and painting, photography, collage materials, digital media.
Year 9 - The Still Life
Students created a folio of artworks studying the subject of “The Still Life” (Still Life - A painting or drawing of inanimate objects).
Students explored a range of materials including acrylic paint on canvas referring the Dutch Golden Age.
Remote Gallery Year 9 art & identity.
Photographic and Digital Media:
Moving Images (PHOM)
Students learn about the field of Photographic and Digital Media (Moving Images) comprising conventions, technologies, traditions and relationships of film making. This includes camera craft, script writing, stop-frame animation production, digital editing and the historical and critical practices of animators and filmmakers.
The course begins by investigating the conventions, activities, traditions and customs of screen culture, experimental cinema and animation. Students then build deeper knowledge and skills of the conventions and practice in photographic and digital media moving forms. The second year of the course builds on knowledge learnt in Year 9 in all areas of video and stop-frame animation production. Students begin to make decisions about how to apply aspects of practice to making photographic and digital works to represent their intentions and communicate meanings. They also explore the conventions of film genres. Year 10 culminates in the creation of sophisticated films and animations.
Students develop skills and knowledge in video and stop-frame animation techniques, including video camera handling, editing techniques, movement in animation and sound production practice suited to individual intention and style.
They also consider the significance of collaboration in the development of film and video work.
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Photographic and Digital Media:
Still Images (PHOS)
The course begins by investigating digital photography and the digital darkroom as well as wet photography including technical codes, camera craft, wet processing and darkroom printing. Students then develop deeper knowledge and skills of the conventions and practice in photographic and digital media. They make decisions about how to apply aspects of practice to making photographic and digital works to represent their intentions and communicate meanings.
Year 10 culminates in the creation of a sophisticated production of a Body of Photographic Works.
Students develop skills and knowledge in photographic and digital technology, including darkroom techniques, camera craft and photographic digital editing programs (Photoshop). They also investigate and explore the historical and cultural significance of the photographic image.
Black & White Landscape Photography
