2011 School Magazine

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Desert Colours Art Tour Over the Easter holidays, twenty girls, Ms MCKean and Mr Pincott boarded a flight to Allce Springs for nine days of painting and drawing in Central Australia. After settling into our Allce Springs resort, we headed to Ellery Creek Big Hole in the West MacDonnell Ranges, to create watercolour works on the edge of the water hole In the afternoon we visited Allce Spr!rigs art galleries to see works by indigenous artists, A walk through Standley Chasm on the third day was the inspiration for 11no print works which we later carved and printed in an afternoon workshop by the pool At Kata nuta (the 019as) and walking in the Valley of the Winds, we began to really appreciate the power of landscape as a subject. The next day we travelled to the famous Uluru, where we were lucky enough to see the sunset over the heart of Australia, while the full moon rose beside it. The trip was a once in a lifetime experience, and all of us were able to develop our drawing skills and awareness of the landscape - not just the land formations but the plants, the animals and the other details I am sure everyone involved can now appreciate the beauty and cultural significance of Central Australia. An exhibition of everyone's works was held in the Barbara Fielding Room in May which allowed us to share our work with the Girls Grammar community

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Art Cof^ For those Interested in the Visual Arts, Art Cafe 15 the place to be. Each Art Cafe featured a talk and slide show from a different contemporary artist. This is a marvellous opportunity for students, staff, parents and friends to gain insight Into the broad range of art practice, working processes and Ideas which artists in Brisbane are generating. Guest artists this year Included Judith Kentish, freshly returned from a residency in Japan, Nancy Brown, an artist printmaker who develops public works in concert with local communities, 51mone Eisler and Cernak The girls were particularly interested to hear about SImone Eisler's experiences learning how to source, preserve and work with skins, scales and bone, set up installation works (with the help of her mum) and extend her practice through the use of performance and photography. Such talks enable students to see behind the finished work to gain insight into the different ways In which artists develop ideas, use media and go about the physical process of making their work Art Walks In Term I the group attended the Gallery of Modern Art's popular show 21st Century: Arti'n the First Decade. The group was guided through a series of presentations in front of selected works from the current exhibition of thought-provoking contemporary installations. in Term 11 we were treated to a special guided tour by Mrs Thornquist of Arc Love and Life, an exhibition of impressionist paintings painted en piei'n alto by the partnership Ethel Carrick and E. Phillips Fox. in Term 111 for the final Art Walk of 2011 the group was guided through the Surreal^Sin - Poetry of Dreams exhibition at GoMA. The final Art Walk in Term N was to view the Henri-Cartier Bresson exhibition at Queensland Art Gallery I Ms H Hollie, Co-ordinatoT I

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