Visual Arts Exhibition – ‘Soft Machine’
Louise Heilpern – Visual Arts Teacher
Visual Arts Exhibition – ‘Soft Machine’
We are excited to kick off the year’s exhibition roster with Soft Machine. At the end of 2019, the then Year 9 Visual Arts students completed a ceramics unit based on the works of Finnish artist, Maija Liisa Vasenius. Students created conceptual links through an expansive study of abstraction and drew upon Elsworth Kelly’s Cite and the influence of John Cage and Jean Arp’s ideas about chance. The introduction of William Burrough’s ‘cut-up and fold-in’ literary techniques inspired the title of this series, after his 1961 novel Soft Machine. In this series of artworks, students explored the relationship between machine shapes such as cogs and wheels, and their connectedness to the human form.
To see more of our students’ beautiful artworks, visit https://www.emanuelschoolvisualarts.com/
