VISUAL ARTS
For Emmanuel Visual Arts students, 2017 has been yet another hands on, creative and vibrantly colourful year. Our Year 7’s worked with clay to create beautifully intricate tiles, and hand crafted flora and fauna pieces. The Year 8’s painted and hand drew portraits as part of their 2D unit, producing colourful and eclectic totem poles and intricate art in their 3D unit. The Byzantine Art movement inspired the Year 9’s as they produced shimmering paintings before experiencing the printmaking process working with ink. The Year 10 Visual Arts students viewed professional art pieces up close and personal on their excursion to the Sculptures by the Sea exhibition in Cottesloe.
VISUAL FEAST They went on to visit the Spare Parts Puppet Theatre in Fremantle before creating their own inspired puppets. A special congratulations goes to Maxine Powell who won a prize at the 2017 Angelico Exhibition for her special creation. The Year 10’s then immersed themselves in the world of textiles, creating Jungle-inspired wearable artworks before turning their hands to the studio of oil painting.
For our upper school students, we began the year visiting the Art Gallery of Western Australia as we geared up to tackle our General and ATAR Art units. A year of blood, sweat and tears have since passed in the creation of their final masterpieces. We proudly look forward to showcasing the hard work and cross our fingers our 12’s are recognised for their hard work and talent in their WACE results.
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2017 YEARBOOK
I’d like to acknowledge the dedication and passion of my fellow Visual Arts teachers, Mrs Deanna Catalano, Mrs Catherine White and Mrs Jan Rigoll who stepped into our Learning Area in Term Three. They work tirelessly to inspire and foster the creativity of our students. Extra special thanks go to our Arts Technician, Mrs Trish Costarella who works the hardest, completing all the behind the scenes tasks needed to ensure smooth sailing. As the year draws to an end we reflect on Thomas Merton’s words when he wrote, ‘Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.’ We hope our students have enjoyed immersing themselves into the practice and finding the creativity and talent within. Let’s do it all again in 2018! Mr Timothy Excell Visual Arts Teacher
