Senior Art Student News

Currently our senior Arts students are at work preparing for their all-important end of year artworks, folios, performance exams and school assessed tasks. Here is a snapshot of what a few are up to:

Grace Hedrick – 12 Theatre Studies

"I’m doing Nelly Robinson’s monologue from the Australian play ‘Salt Creek Murders’. It’s about a woman struggling with the guilt of having an affair and her husband’s death, which she may or may not have been responsible for, and it goes through the motions of what she’s feeling in the moment. I’ll perform this to VCAA assessors in Melbourne in early Term 4".

Will Erwin - 12 Media

"I’m making a comedy documentary style film about an immortal knight who is now stuck in the 21st-century and is struggling to adapt".

Alexandra Christo – 12 Visual Communication and Design

"I’m designing a cafe that runs on the train line and educates people on the environment".

Kayla Hogbin - 12 Music

I am going through my repertoire, where I perform a number of songs to VCAA assessors in early Term 4. I am focusing on the difficult parts of each song, doing basically an hour and a half rehearsal every night, to try and make them as perfect as I can, as well as going to my music teacher every Saturday. One song I’m working on at the moment is ‘Burn’ from Hamilton, tricky part of which is the ‘belting’ at the end.

Molly Pankhurst - 12 Art Creative Practice

"I’m doing a tapestry piece. The overarching theme is reclaiming stories of female injustice in Greek mythology from a modern feminist perspective".

Myles Brabham - 12 Art Creative Practice

"I’ve flipped my original theme for Unit 3 entirely into a more positive sense and so my artwork is a large drawing with a lot of different materials in it, of me and my partner. My original idea was ‘loss’ and now I’m doing ‘gain’ the idea of gaining someone that actually cares about me".

Artist Talks

This week our Year 11 Art Creative Practice students were fortunate enough to have shortlisted Archibald prize artist and Sacred Heart staff member Liz Sullivan talk to them about her creative practice. Liz discussed the way she tackles her artwork and it was a great experience for the students and an opportunity to hear from a practising artist about how they organise themselves to get the most out of their artwork and their ‘creative practice’.

Music Matinee

A number of our talented students performed on Tuesday this week as part of our music matinee series. The spring weather really helped us out as we had a concert near the chessboard and some very talented students performing in the courtyard, organised by our Music Captains, Lachie Hyatt and Amelia Walsh.

The students who performed were:

• Astrid Le Noury  -   Drums  -  Astrid was also joined by Tom Holland - Bass and Tahlia Connell - vocals
• Loki Perch-Nielsen - Saxophone
• Coen Cursio-Brundle - Drums
• Ryan Stratford - Drums
• Jarvis Lander - Piano
• We also had a dynamic brother/sister duo of Lachie Hyatt on Drums and Grace Hyatt – bass.