VISUAL ART COURSES
Year 7
Compulsory full year course (fee $50)
Year 8
Semester Electives ($25)
Legal Street Art ($30 for Skateboard deck) and Paint and Draw Like a Professional
Year 9-10
Two Year School Certificate Course (fee $50per year)
Year 11
Digital and Wet Photography (fee $80 per year)
Year 12
Digital and Wet Photography (fee $80 per year)
Year 11-12
HSC Course (fee $80 per year)
WHAT IS MY CHILD BE DOING THIS TERM?
Year 7
Term 1 Splash
This unit of study is themed around exploring the use of water as inspiration in art. Artists studied include John Olsen and John Earle. Artmaking focuses on producing watercolour landscapes and clay objects in response.
Term 2 Portraiture
This unit of study uses the Archibald Portraiture Prize as stimulus for students to create their own portrait of a famous Australian. At the end of the unit we even have our own student portrait prize!
Term 3 Creature Features
This unit of study explores the imagery and creations of filmmaker and storyteller Tim Burton. Students respond by developing their own character, drawing and annotation a sketch and then creating this from clay.
Term 4 Mambo Mania
This unit of work explores the imagery of quintessential Australian brand Mambo. Students learn to emulate the drawing style and topics examined by Mambo by creating unique pages for their very own ‘Zine'.
Year 8
Legal Street Art
This unit of work allows students to explore artmaking techniques utilized by artists that create their work to be placed in public spaces. Artmaking includes stencil designs, paste-ups, original designs for skateboard decks, murals and t-shirts. Artists studied include renowned street artists Banksy.
Paint and Draw Like a Professional
This unit of work allows students to focus specifically on traditional techniques utilized by artists. Mediums such as oil and watercolour paint are explored as well as chalk pastels and charcoal on a variety of surfaces.
Year 9
Term 1 Vantage Point
This unit of work takes students through a variety of tasks and mediums around the theme of composition and different viewpoints. Tasks include drawing topographical landscapes, producing a suite of photographic images and producing a perspective painting.
Term 2 Innovations and Imagination
Master Renaissance man Leonardo Da Vinci is the focus for this unit of work, where students study what he made and invented, before sketching their own flying machine and creating a 3D model.
Term 3 Objects
This unit of work has students explore the way artists use Objects as a theme in their artwork. Artists such as Margaret Olley and Andy Warhol are studied. Student's artmaking includes large-scale sculpture and lino printmaking.
Term 4 Cabinet of Curiosity
This unit of work allows students to complete a self-directed project around the historical theme of a Cabinet of Curiosity.
This project includes 2D and 3D artworks.
Year 10
Term 1 Human Distortion
This unit of work analyses key artists such as Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon and Ben Quilty. Students study and emulate significant pieces by these artists which informs their own self-directed artwork.
Term 2 Metamorphoses
Students explore this theme by creating agamographic drawings and paintings, clay sculptures and etchings influenced by key artist Escher.
Term 3 Appropriation
Students appropriate famous artworks to create paintings. Following this students stage a famous artwork and include an Australian twist to photographically document it.
Term 4 Appropriation
Students focus on creating mixed media artworks influenced by key artist Robert Rauschenberg.
Year 11 Preliminary HSC and Year 12 HSC Course
The preliminary course focuses on content of practice, conceptual frameworks and the frames. This provides a platform for students to apply these skills to their HSC year.
The HSC course focuses on an interpretive investigation and relationships the of concepts learned in the preliminary course. Experimentation and refinement of material and conceptual practice through making and completion of case studies providing the criteria for school based and external examination.
The scope of what students can create includes 2D, 3D and 4D expressive forms.