Art
In Year 8 Art, students have been developing their drawing skills. One of their double lessons used the "Thinking through Drawing" resource from The Art Gallery of South Australia, and students had choices of a wide range of open-ended tasks that asked them to consider ways of drawing or documenting, and new ways of using tools.
In Year 10 Visual Art, students analysed work by Badger Bates (Barkandji People) who makes linocuts surrounding stories and understanding of the Barka (Darling River). They then used reference photos from Trove (https://trove.nla.gov.au/, a free online resource with collections from national libraries, museums, galleries and archives) of the Rocky River to inspire their own linoprints whilst connecting to our local landscape and ecosystems. Students considered balance between positive and negative space, as well as the impact of their mark making. They also applied various inks, printed on a range of surfaces, or experimented with hand-colouring after they were hand-printed.
- Badger Bates, Barkandji people, New South Wales, born 1947, Wilcannia, New South Wales, Life coming back to Moon Lake, Wilcannia, 2011, Broken Hill, New South Wales, linocut on paper, 72.0 x 42.7 cm (image), 90.8 x 57.8 cm (sheet); Acquisition through Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art supported by BHP 2019, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, © Badger Bates, photo: Alexandra Rosenblum.
- Rocky River. , 1905.
