2008 School Magazine

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It',^t ^ Art Walks were conducted across the year again and were well supported by staff and students' We visited the Padding ton and Brunswick Street Gallery precincts. A highlight was a visit in Term I to GoMA to view the Andy Warhol Exhibition guided by Mrs L Thornquist, Director of International Studies at the School and also volunteer guide for the Queensland Art Gallery. 11, .^' 8' 11, c^2'41V' ^ffP ,,^' P P\^077 ^@-@@\^ What really knocks me out is a book that, when you have done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. (JD Salinger, Catcher in the Rye) The Literature Cafe group has made many friends this year. Patrick Gale's Notes from an Exhibition presented us with the troubled artist Rachel Kelly and her long suffering family in a psychologically astute novel about pain, beauty and passion. Our guest was Miss H Hollie who spoke about her experiences as a practising artist. Janet Turner Hospital's Orpheous Lost introduced us to Lee!a, a mathematical genius and Mishka an Australian musical prodigy. The book retelis the Orpheous myth tapping into current fears about terrorism and war. Overlaying this is a haunting love story that stays with you. Mrs P Murphy led the discussion with an interactive approach using role play and music. We met a number of characters that we loved to hate in Malcolm Knox's Jamaica. A team of six friends, five men and one woman, travel to Jamaica to compete in a challenging marathon relay swim-an ultimate story of friendship rent by secrets and psychological tension. o

11'^!!f O^^-' The Art Cafe programme during 2008 provided an opportunity to enjoy presentations from three fascinating contemporary artists-Renata Buziak, ian Smith and Stewart Service. In Term I, the Cafe studied Buziak's work which involves collecting plants and integrating the process of decomposition with photography to create new visual representations of the environment. in Term 11 Brisbane based painter Ian Smith discussed his rich and layered paintings that portray wide ranging representations of people and place and metaphoric images of the life of the artist. Smith's work is represented in Australian and international institutional coiledions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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The Philosophy Cafe has met three times this year and on each occasion some very thought provoking discussions have taken place. The first meeting was facilitated by Mr Gilbert Burgh, a Lecturer n Ethics and Philosophy at The University of Queensland. His discussion-is self-interest a good thing? took many twists and turns during the course of the evening. Mrs J Colwill and Mr D Pincott were the guest speakers for the Cafe In Term 111 The r presentation titled The Other, focused on post long-service leave reflect'ons around what makes us who we are Mr Pincott reflected on his travel experiences accompanied by a philosophical discourse on the philosopher, Levinas, provided by Mrs Colwill.

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