Visual Arts
Eytan Messiah – Head of Visual Arts, Co-ordinator of High School Innovation Team
Our Creative Process in 2020
As 2020 winds up, I would like to take the opportunity to reflect upon and share my special regard for all our Visual Arts students and the work they have undertaken in this difficult year. Our students have always sought to use their creativity as a means to negotiate the challenging or confusing parts of their worlds and this year has been particularly challenging! I suppose then, that it shouldn’t be a surprise that the creative output from our students has been so affecting. A creative process allows us to unpack and understand our great questions, inspirations and apprehensions in new and novel ways, and the result of this process is often an object of complex beauty, thought and feeling.
I am most proud of the efforts a lot of our Primary and High School students took when in remote learning. This showed a distinct love of learning and creative resilience in the face of difficulty. It was particularly endearing to observe the ingenuity and plain grit of our HSC and younger elective students in setting up their makeshift ‘studio’ spaces at home and getting on with their important creative processes. Subsequently, they have made some truly breathtaking work and I urge you to take a look for yourself.
Some of my personal highlights are:
- Year 9 Visual Arts – for their tear jerking Animations for Social Action
- Year 11 Visual Arts – for their beautiful exhibition Future Artefact
- HSC Visual Arts – for being a bunch of legends and making an incredible collection of HSC Bodies of Work (check out their virtual gallery too!)
I love being an Art teacher! I get to be a part of countless unique and fascinating journeys that our young people undertake every year. I love too, the comfort I can take each year in knowing that our School has helped to add some vibrant creative thinkers and makers to our broader world!
