From around the School
Excited artists (back row to front row) Olivia Priddy, Alessia Radici, Hannah Warren, Maya Smallbone, Jessica Stone, Alexandra Fleming and Lauren Smyth with Ms Tanya Blong.
Sustainable art swimming along Artist, passionate environmentalist and St Hilda’s art technician Tanya Blong has been spreading the word about how to turn waste into something beautiful. Ms Blong uses art to highlight environmental issues and teach children how to create sustainable art from things they would normally throw away. “I ran this project with the Year 3 girls, with the aim to educate about waste in the environment and how to work with recycled materials,” she said. Instead of throwing away unused materials, the Art Club used waste materials from Senior School art projects. “The girls loved the hands-on project,” Ms Blong said. “Using the offcuts of timber from Senior School art projects, coupled with items from REMIDA (a company that collects factory waste products and sells them to the public), we created fish designed as wall art.” Ms Blong taught the girls about design, surface pattern, colour theory, composition, construction and distressing techniques. Once completed, the girls took home one or two timber fish ready for wall hanging.
Songwriting for success Stella Kelly (Year 12) was chosen as one of four finalists across Australia to take part in the Music: Count Us In (MCUI) National Songwriting Competition. She was given the opportunity to co-write a song for the MCUI Song of the Year in Sydney, Australia, which will be performed by more than 500,000 students nationally and was fortunate enough to receive the mentorship of Australian music heavyweights Jay Laga’aia and John Foreman.
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