Art Department

Internal assessments are well underway for our Visual Art, Drama and Music students, with drying racks and hard-drives filling up ahead of hand-ins, with work from Level 2 visual art students due this week.

Our photographers are in the studio completing their own stop-motion films, which are playing with lighting, textures, and movement, whilst painters have been studying surrealist ideas, including their bold use of colour and three dimensional spaces.

Year 11 students have had outstanding results from their assessment one drawings. Their first artist analysis examined New Zealand painter Rosalie Gascoigne’s works, which often took inspiration from objects found in her everyday environment.

Coming up, we are looking forward to being part of the Selwyn Art Show Schools Showcase on the 27th and 28th of May. At this event the Youth Artist Award is up for grabs, and we wish all our students entering work in the showcase every success this year.

In Music, we are proud of the two senior music students who performed at a recent conference (see photo). If you have an event coming up in the community that could be an opportunity for other students, please get in touch. Our Drama students are also looking forward to working with Massive Theatre company in a devising workshop, and we are also planning our Visual Art trip, which included a tour of Christchurch Art Gallery last year. Finally, following the installation of a new controller, I am pleased to say that our Pottery club is now officially up and running: the Arts Department is turning up the heat in term two!