The Arts.

During the past weeks all Art classes have been busy with their different projects.  Early years have been ‘Looking Down’ into rock pools after watching a Torres Strait Islander video about a crab and a fish who get married.  Dauma the crab and Garom the fish are puppets constructed from ghost nets – discarded fishing and trawler nets which litter the waters off northern Australia.  The students have made their own collaged rock pools complete with sea creatures.  This is the link to the story of Dauma and Garom:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8lriZ_PTu4

The primary classes are enthusiastically making their Tiny Worlds. It is great to see the students showing respect and care for each other’s art work while constructing their worlds together on the same model landscape board.  Students have set up a scene for a battle with miniature soldiers, made a fort and have been making a volcano in a section of the landscape. Others have been helping to make trees.  Next newsletter we will hopefully have a photo of the final group product.

Primary model making: early beginnings of the landscape.

Junior Secondary are responding to the issue of plastics pollution by making cardboard sea creatures which have swallowed plastic. Their individual sea creatures will be constructed into an installation at the end of the project.

Works in progress - junior secondary sea creatures which swallowed plastic.

Senior Students are currently preparing cardboard relief pictures for printing. They have chosen images from everyday life that represent popular culture to make their prints.

The first image shows great use of mark making through the student's control of line. He has made the burger template look 3D.  The second image is a cardboard relief of a motor bike. This work is still in progress.

During our art lessons I continually see our young people’s creativity through their spontaneity and resourcefulness. They are engaged in exploring and solving their art problems, often in surprisingly successful ways.  It is rewarding to be a part of their experience.