Korovian August 2020

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Reflections By Rowena Hannan, Head of Visual Arts

Artists throughout history reflect the world around them and make commentary on society in their art practice. The work that has been produced this year by our Visual Arts students is no exception. Our Year 8 students started the year by looking out beyond the art rooms to the Australian landscape that was devastated by the bushfires, as they depicted our beloved Australian bush in graphite. As we all became enveloped by the pandemic and were forced to live our lives indoors, students’ perspectives became more personal as they continued to use the visual arts as a vehicle to convey their world. In Distance Learning, Year 9 Photography students conveyed their feelings and what was important to them in the form of flat lay ‘confinement survival kits’, while Year 11 VCD students cleverly adopted a more historical response by appropriating 1930’s Vogue covers to make commentary on our current world. The study of the Visual Arts at Korowa has allowed our students to reflect on their times in a manner that is both cathartic and poignant.

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