The Arts.

We are looking forward to this term when all students will be studying Visual Arts. Early Years will be using collage and photo montage to make art on the theme of ‘Up, Down and All Around’. Their first project is to make a rock pool collage after viewing a Torres Strait

The theme for the Primary classes is ‘Tiny Worlds’. Primary students will be working on creating and building models of their own ideas about tiny worlds.

Last week, for stimulus and discussion about ‘Tiny Worlds”, we viewed the following artwork by Carl Warner. “He may be a bit mad (in a good way), but he’s also a super-talented genius. The London-based artist, photographer & director creates the most magical beautiful semi-believable fantastic landscapes out of whatever he finds at the market”. Looking closely you can see he has used dragon fruit, melons, ginger, radishes and many other fruit and vegetables. All is not as it seems!

Junior Secondary students are focussing on the issue of plastics polluting our oceans. They will be working in 3D to make an artistic response to communicate their ideas about this topic. The theme for the Senior school is Popular Culture. Senior students will be using a range of mixed media for their artistic responses.

It is a privilege to be teaching the Arts at Gympie Special School as so many of our students have talents and interests in the different arts areas. It is great to see them learning and having so much fun at the same time. I look forward to sharing photos of their developing art in our next newsletter. 

Chris A.