VCE Art Exhibition: Art From the Edge

We have had another busy few weeks in the Arts at Sacred Heart!

Hot on the heels of the Media and Drama Evenings and VCE Performance Exams, the VCE Art Exhibition, ‘Art From the Edge’ opened at the Kyneton Auction House on Friday 13 October. It was a fabulous opening, hosted by Arts Captains, Jemima Cudmore and Grace Stewart, and was officially opened by local artist and friend of SHC Arts, Danny Butterworth.

‘Art From the Edge’ features over 30 works student from Year 11 and 12 Art: Creative Practice and Year 12 Visual Communication and Design (VCD). Students in Art and VCD develop their individual ‘art practice’ and design skills and ultimately develop a folio of art/design works, a number of which are in the exhibition.

We’ve called our exhibition ‘Art From the Edge’, as artists and designers often sit at the edge of society, but we rely on them to speak truth about the way our society works and in the process, hold up a mirror to ourselves.

The exhibition is an amazing glimpse into what our talented students can create, and everyone who has seen ‘Art From the Edge’ has been blown away by the calibre of the work.

Congratulations to Year 12 Art student, Maeve Pierce, who was awarded the Acquisition Award. Maeve’s painting will be purchased by the College and professionally framed and displayed.

We encourage everyone to come and see all of our students’ amazing work at the exhibition, which runs till 7 November.

Huge thanks and congratulations to Mrs Anne Berend and Dr Lynda McCord (Year 11 and 12 Art: Creative Practice) and Ms Kirsten Gibson (Year 11 and 12 Visual Communication and Design) for their amazing efforts. We were also very fortunate to have Ms Sam Caddey, our former VCE Art teacher and Head of Arts, in attendance! It takes many hours, in and out of class time, to get our students to this stage. We are very grateful for the input of these amazing teachers and for their efforts inspiring their students to produce their work!

Year 11 Theatre Studies Play:  “Where in the World is Frank Sparrow?”

Last week, the Year 11 Theatre Studies class were involved in the staging of a play over two nights in the Mary Moloney Theatre.

The talented group of students staged an incredible new production of the play, “Where in the World is Frank Sparrow?”, a dark gothic ‘fable’, by Australian playwright, Angela Betzien.

The class designed and created the play and were involved in all aspects of the production: the acting, direction and choreography, as well as designing the lighting, sound, set costumes and make up.

Congratulations to Ms Haley Galloway, for her tireless work in bringing this to the stage and supporting the class, and special thanks to Mr Steve Huntley, our Property Manager for his assistance in the building of the sets.

Check out the promo trailer below:

Several members of the class also shared their experiences of the play:

My favourite part of the ‘Frank Sparrow’ experience would be the final week when we were all stressed, all thinking we were ‘done for’ and weren't going to have a play. But then it all came together, just like that, and we finished with a really good play. None of us were expecting that to happen, but it did, thankfully. Dylan Bunn

The thing that I enjoyed most about 'Where in the World is Frank Sparrow ?' was operating the sound in the bio box, as we had to be really on the ball, with dozens of sound cues that were timed precisely. I also found it really challenging to learn all the chorus lines, because each line is in a big ‘chunk’ of text, so it’s definitely tricky to learn the lines with the other chorus members. Mary Fox

One thing I found most challenging in my acting for the play was creating an old man’s voice, even though I got it in the end. I also enjoyed how the play, and particularly the set, finally came together, as this was my production area. Construction was a big challenge and we needed the maintenance team to help us put it all up. It wasn’t finished until Wednesday and we were performing Thursday, so that was a bit stressful. The process of constructing and painting the set was really enjoyable though, especially with our ‘over the top’ use of fluorescent paint, which glowed eerily under the UV lights. Georgia Bartlett