2003 School Magazine

FACULTIES CREATIVE ARTS

There has been a lot of creative energy around this Year. Hands-on activities, carefully planned by our committed Arts Ed ucators, have energised the cu rriculuin and encouraged students to achieve advanced levels of skills in Art, Drama and Music. The recently purchased digital cameras have opened up new areas of expression with some exciting outcomes Out of the classroom, the huge variety of performance opportunities available, were managed by dedicated professionals who trained our talented musicians, actors and dancers to be the best they can be The month of August was full of School and Arts events that showcased the talents of our students and the of creative ra rig e opportunities available Staff and students working together in the Arts are very excited by the prospect of a new facility, scheduled to start at the end of 2004. We look forward to working together on artistic projects in our own building

Mrs P Murphy Head of Faculty

GRAMMAR ARTISTS AT WORK Many Year 8 students have made striking Brisbane Girls Grammar School won two terracotta pots decorated with black and major prizes for the Brisbane North region in white designs, while others have produced the Minister's Award for Excellence in Art. small canvas paintings featuring cropped The successful winners were Amelia Beer sections of the School's buildings which and Sarah Cohen. Their work will tour the have been put together to form a giant State and will be shown in the Queensland colourful mural. Their creative efforts signal Art Gallery in February 2004. The other two a bright future for Art in the School entrants Katherine Boyd and Carly Faregher were highly coinmended.

and reflected images have undoubtedly been the highlight of the workshop programme for both Schools. Dianne Peach and Joan Webster continued to offer pottery classes using the wheel Their dedicated following of students are improving rapidly in their skills. Mrs M~James Head of Department

Year 9 students have created colourful and innovative interpretations of the Still Life The afternoon art theme, made masks and 'plundered the past' workshops with BOYS by appropriating Photoshop manipulated Grammar which involved images from the Renaissance Masters to the sharing of teachers' expertise and the create some Innovative canvas paintings Schools' resources has Year 10 successfully tackled the portrait continued. Workshops with exceptional talent some gen re have included oil revealed. Students were asked to create a painting, photography, portrait of someone they admired using digital imaging and expressive painting and drawing techniques printmaking. An Wearable Art was a popular unit with the exhibition of student students modelling their re-cycled creations workshop art works was on School Assembly. Stylised figure held at BOYS Grammar sculptures in clay were also produced each term and the Senior students responded to a variety of students and staff conceptual themes to produce some diverse enjoyed the positive and mature works. From shoes and boxes to benefits this paintings and perspex, students have interaction brought explored sophisticated ideas to produce Photography and some very creative works. Year 12 students Photoshop Workshops have investigated their own approaches to and presentations made media using a variety of themes as a by Leah King-Smith stimulus. Self, identity, society and global using specialists politics are some of the issues used to techniques of layering inspire artworks

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