Volume 24 Issue 37 25 Nov 2016 24 Heshvan 5777

Primary Visual Arts

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Eytan Messiah – Head of Visual Arts

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Louise Heilpern – Visual Arts Teacher

A Spotlight on the Visual Arts in the Primary School

The exhibition of an artist’s creative work is an integral stage in the ‘lifecycle’ of any artwork. This invites an audience to engage in the creative process and arguably plays a fundamental role in the enrichment of a thriving culture.

Through exhibiting our students’ artworks, we are invariably recognising and celebrating the various creative processes that have led to their final work. However, an exhibition also serves another purpose in education; it makes students’ thinking visible. It is a powerful tool in enabling our students’ capacity to develop:

– a deeper understanding of content

– a greater motivation for learning and

– their alertness to opportunities for thinking and learning – (Visible Thinking by Project Zero)

This Sunday afternoon, the Visual Arts department is delighted to be launching two exciting initiatives:

  1. Spotlight is an exhibition that brings together a selection of artworks from Years 1-6 and aims to showcase the diverse range of contemporary artmaking led by Louise Heilpern and made by our young students in 2016. The exhibition draws inspiration from a broad range of sources such as the Hermannsburg Potters, John Coburn, Aboriginal woven forms and Tal R. It encourages us to appreciate how our students view and respond to visual art and design.  We also hope to instil an awareness of other cultures, perspectives and ways of looking at the world beyond our own life experience. Examining the artwork, we consider the originality, technical considerations to colour, composition and form and a willingness to learn from artists and artworks.
  1. emanuelschoolvisualarts.com is a brand new website that catalogues and showcases artworks made by Emanuel School students in a curated online space. This enables us to access a much broader array of student work from Year 1 all the way up to our HSC works in a dynamic digital gallery context.

Spotlight opens this Sunday November 27 at 2.30 pm until 3.15 pm, prior to the Primary School Concert which commences at 4:00 pm.

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Etching – Alexander Machlin – Year 4

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Collage – Layla Goldberg – Year 6

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Pot – Maya Barnett – Year 6

 

 

 

 

Eytan Messiah and Louise Heilpern