During Semester 1, Year 11 adopted a structural and subjective approach and focus in their art making and critical and historical studies, investigating how artists have communicated the concept of identity through different media, techniques, signs, and symbols in portraiture.

This exploration resulted in large-scale graphic, colourful, and expressive portrait of a person they admired or loved. Students experimented with a range of materials such as colourful inks, watercolour, pen, acrylic pouring paints, collage, charcoal, and paint markers to create expressive marks and textures that represented elements of their chosen person's identity.  

In Term 2, students continued their portraiture study, investigating the evolution of portraiture over time to develop a holistic understanding of art throughout history, first making a portrait that explored traditional art conventions, inspired by Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci's Journals.

They then responded to a range of Modern painting styles depicting their subject using the expressive brushstrokes of the Impressionists, the bold colours and childish brushstrokes of the Fauvists and lastly dissected their subject's faces into geometric shapes mimicking the stylistic qualities of cubism.

I also made the works along side Year 11 to join them in their process and to demonstrating different techniques along the way.  

Mrs Emma Perry

Visual Arts Teacher