DP Visual Arts Exhibition
Grade 10 Visual Arts: ‘Creative Journey’ Project
This semester, our Grade 10 Visual Art students embarked on an inspiring creative journey, selecting and exploring their chosen media and materials while cultivating their unique ideas to produce final artworks for exhibition. The resulting collection is notably diverse and compelling, reflecting a wide range of perspectives and artistic voices.
“Maya” By Maya
Oil Paint, Oil Pastel, Watercolor, Mixed Media
At the center is me as I appear to the world, but the background is how I see myself: colors, sequins, glitter, abstract stars. This piece reflects both realities of my body and my mind, bringing together the seen and the felt.
‘Stein reflections’ By Gimmy Watercolor Painting
This picture captures a moment from my family trip across Germany, France, and Switzerland. When I saw this view at Stein am Rhein, it felt incredibly cinematic, peaceful, timeless and filled with warmth. The soft light on the old stone walls, the stillness of the river, and the warmth of the golden hour is all captured in one image. Similar to the work of artist Frank W Benson,I wanted to create a painting that could capture the warmth and preserve the feeling of the moment.
‘A Town with an Ocean View’ By Joanne
Acrylic painting
This piece is titled after my childhood favorite film’s theme song, and the painting is inspired from my trip to Japan with my childhood friends. It references the artist Jeremy Miranda’s style of overlapping interior and exterior environments, creating a sense of nature versus man. Moreover, this is a memory that I want to cherish forever, because it is an unforgettable time I shared with my friends.
‘The Fairy Playground’ By Peach Mixed Media
My project’s main theme is ‘Girlhood’. When I think back of my childhood memories I have a very clear memory that comes to mind of me playing with a storybook. The story book had 3d paper houses and fairy dolls. This memory to me represented what ‘Girlhood’ felt like, which is why I chose it to be the inspiration for my artwork. I also incorporated different flowers such as tulips which is a symbol for the beauty of women and is often associated with women’s day associations. I also used lilies to symbolize a mother’s love and how crucial it is in Girlhood.
In March, the creative journey of our Grade 12 Visual Arts students concluded with our annual exhibition. Over one hundred artworks created by our graduating cohort were installed and displayed over the course of the week, setting a level of quality and conceptual adventurousness for our next cohorts to be inspired by and aspire to.
‘well, i’m not the moon, i’m not even a star’ By
Grey
Acrylic and gouache painting
This piece was inspired by Mitski’s lyrics from Your Best American Girl on beauty and alienation, a song about being excluded from a version of beauty made for someone else. I focused on my monolid eyes to reject soft, palatable versions of beauty. The glowing eyes above contrast with the subdued portrait below, creating a juxtaposition between society’s view of monolids and my refusal to conform and surgically change. I don’t need to be the moon or a star; I can rise above it all.
‘Worms’ By
Peam Oil Painting on Large Canvas
This piece depicts me as a child picking worms in a river at dawn where I examin the similarities of mine and the worm’s existence, how little we know about life, and how fragile it is. This discovery is aided with the contrast of light and dark representing innocence and experience. The eye is first drawn to the bright, contrasting colors, and clear forms. Here, is the surface of the water and of self understanding. As the eye is guided downwards by the ripples, the viewer is invited to be lost in the vast darkness.
‘Lost Lamb’ By Jerry Oil painting on laser cut canvas board
Inspired by Monet’s en plein air, the lamb, which viewers can see themselves in, rests peacefully under a cherry blossom tree; around it are soft textures of foliage, balancing cool blues and greens with warm pinks and yellows to create a peaceful, ethereal glow. The piece evokes a dreamy comfort in knowing that although we stray away at times, Jesus leaves the 99 for the one. He meets us where we are and brings us home, surrounding us with the same grace, warmth, and light that surrounds the lamb.
‘CONSUME’ By
Minnie Digital Illustration
What is the best way to immortalize your love? What other ways can you ensure that the one you love is forever embedded in your essence, other than to become fully one with them? Food is more than just nourishment for the body; it’s nourishment for the soul. I wish to represent a deeper form of immortalization, where pieces of a loved ones’ physical essence are consumed to be preserved within us and our essence.
"Flawed but free" By Fern, Class of 2025
These vibrant lino prints are a revisiting of my first piece, representing the creative breakthrough of discovering my artistic identity. The radiant colors symbolize freedom and growth, while the medium itself carries meaning. Lino Printing reveals minor carving imperfections, reminding us that expression doesn’t require perfection. This piece marks my emergence from creative restraint, embracing experimentation, and the colors evoke the joy of stepping beyond my comfort zone.
"Entanglement" By Opal, Class of 2025
Alternatively, Choreomania: the social phenomenon of dancing mania in medieval Europe. The shared experience of joy and freedom in life through the dancing figures holding hands in a circle. The glowing body radiating emotions, happiness, sadness, frustration that are too strong to hold back, blasting through the expressive stroke. The force of humanity, stripped bare to the soul, overcoming the darkness that surrounds us.
"Brutalist City" By Pam, Class of 2025
This artwork is a depiction of brutalist buildings made from concrete. The dark monolithic structure has a generic and predictable form. What stands out, however, is the environment. The little shiny stars and milky ways cluttered the dark sky; the colorful green leaves sat on the bottom of the piece. Every element of the environment seems to outshine the architecture itself, embodying the core principle of brutalism, where architecture is not an ornament while the environment is the soul.
"Fading Glimpse of Her" By Ta, Class of 2025
This piece captures the fragile, fleeting nature of memory. The painting shows a girl with a film camera standing in a flower field — a figure from a dream, familiar yet just out of reach. As we wake, her face begins to fade, and the harder we try to remember her, the more she slips away. Still, the emotions tied to those dreamlike moments remain vivid and deeply felt. Sometimes, all we can do is sit in quiet reflection. Like the artwork itself, if you don’t look closely enough, you might miss her — hidden behind a ghostly silhouette, holding the camera and waiting to be remembered.
"Free?" By Design, Class of 2025
“Is the bird truly free when the cage door is open, or is it overwhelmed by the uncertainty of choice?” This oil painting represents the Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt stage through visuals from the daisies that symbolizes freedom and an enclosed space of human decisions. The open birdcage reflects the tension between the desire for independence and the fear of failure, while the daisy bush invites reflection on how personal choices can lead to growth or self-doubt.
"Blooming Facets" By Mily, Class of 2025
Blooming from the indigo hydrangea petals are six distinct faces reflective of one’s varied essence. People are multifaceted. This is portrayed through the range of media and art styles; from realism to pop art, from graphite to yarn. Trauma also triggers identity loss, leaving shards of ‘self’ from moments in existential crisis to form a new ‘you’. These ‘moments’ are parts of my other works added in this piece, such as the flower eyes from Ego’s Mirage or the art style in Synaptic Silence.