Visual Arts

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What an interesting year 2020 has been. The Visual Arts Department was very fortunate to have Nicholas Burgos (Year 12 Studio Arts, 2019) accepted into the Top Arts exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, as well as being accepted into Swinburne University to complete a Bachelor of Architecture. Gilberto Fraga (Year 11 Studio Arts, 2019) was also awarded a cheque of $150 for his work ‘My Anime World’ in the Creative Arts Exhibition which is on display at the CAE James Goold House. Due to COVID-19 many of the external art events that the College participates in were postponed and rescheduled. As a result, many of the members of the Visual Arts Team have created online Virtual Galleries to exhibit student work and share their successes with the staff, parents and members of the community. Our students have had many opportunities to visit online gallery space as well as attend the Top Design Exhibition virtual excursion, MUMA incursion and Destiny Deacon virtual excursion.

At the start of the year we were very lucky to welcome two new members to the Visual Arts Team – Mr Steve Emmett and Ms Rimma Campos. Mr Emmett has arrived with 15 years of experience teaching at Brighton Grammar and Ms Campos with 8 years of experience at Berwick College. Ms Campos has also taken the role of Faculty Head for Visual Arts. We hope Mr McCabe had a well-rested time off during Semester 2 and was able to tick off some renovations around his beautiful home. We would also like to wish Mr Ramesh Gammune all the very best with his endeavours as he has taken a job offer at Wesley College beginning Term 4. He has been a tremendous asset in the Visual Arts Faculty for the last few years and we wish him the very best in his new venture. We would also like to welcome Ms Nicole Wong who started in Semester 2 teaching the Year 7 Visual Arts and Year 8 Art classes. Ms Wong is a graduate student with Industry experience at Lego in Singapore. She has been thrown in the deep end with online learning as well as teaching new courses. We acknowledge her efforts and applaud all her achievements with the students during these difficult times.

Students across Studio Art and VCD have been able to further develop their manual drawings skills and digital competencies. Much of the work has been modified to accommodate the resource of remote learning and not having access to each material that would traditionally be available in a classroom. We are all very proud of the boys and thank them for their patience and support during this testing year. Hopefully many parents have had an opportunity to experience a virtual tour of their son’s work.

Rimma Campos