Technology
Visual Art
Subject Head: Mr Anthony Sparrow Teachers: Messrs Stefan Potgieter and Mouton Joubert, Ms Laura-Jo Diedericks
Subject Head Visual Art FET: Mrs Mandy Colman Subject Head Creative Arts GET: Ms Laura-Jo Diedericks
This year we welcomed a new member of staff, Stefan Potgieter, who came to us as a first year teacher and taught all the Grade 9 Technology classes. It was a good year, with the boys completing some great projects. They created skyscrapers, floodlit fields and solar cookers. The Grade 8s again did a six month stint each with Ms Diedericks and Mr Joubert. The course conducted by Miss Diedericks covered typography, package design and architectural design, whilst Mr Joubert focused on drawing techniques and teaching the boys the basics of graphic communication and the discipline needed to communicate well. Thank you to all who put a great deal of effort into the year and to the boys for their enthusiastic participation.
The Art department has yet again been a place of intense activity and productivity. In Creative Arts, the Grade 8s and Grade 9s have touched on some interesting aspects of the history of visual culture. The focus of Creative Arts is on the development of technical skills, and what is so exciting, is that many students discover that they have artistic talent. This solid foundation set in the GET phase (under the leadership of Ms Diedericks since 2014), has paid huge dividends, as the students in the senior phase of this subject enter Visual Arts with confidence. The 175 bronze frieze project undertaken in 2015 to commemorate Wynberg’s 175th year, continued into 2016 under the guidance of Jean Doyle, a South African sculptor of international repute. Six young Wynberg artists ( Jason Adams, David Bresick, Ryan Gedult, Kino Hogan, Andrew Jones and Cassie Robbertze), worked tirelessly with Ms Colman and Ms Diedericks. Giving up holiday time, weekends, evenings and lunch
A sculpture (left) and painting by Cassie Robbertze with the theme: Movement and Mayhem
Wynberg Boys’ High School Magazine 2016
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