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3 UNIT VISUAL ARTS STUDENTS EXCEL AT NATIONAL ART SCHOOL

Five Year 11 Visual Arts students, who were
selected to attend the prestigious Intensive
Studio Practice course at the National Art
School in Darlinghurst this year, were awarded
with a Band 6 result. These students were
selected from students across NSW who are
achieving at the highest level of excellence
in their Preliminary HSC Course and who
demonstrate a mature attitude to their studies.
Blue Mountains Grammar School students were
selected from a very competitive application
process for this 1 Unit HSC course. These
courses involve a 60 hour Board of Studies
endorsed course completed over the period
of two holiday breaks includes preparing an
additional Body of Work to the one they must Finnian, Belle, Giselle, Matilda and Holly with their Art teacher,
Mrs. Julie Hiam.
complete for the 2 Unit HSC course.
Finnian O’Conner and Belle Ashford completed the Life Drawing course, which focuses on developing
observational drawing skills while studying the structure of the human form. Matilda Merry took part in the
Painting course where she interpreted the formal qualities and language of a historically significant painting, and
developed her own paintings. Giselle Vasquez–Seers completed the Digital Media course, which explores the
possibilities particular to digitally produced photography and film, and Holly Camilleri completed the course in
Black and White Photography.
This course gave our students the opportunity to gain life experience of intense studio practice, to be surrounded
by creative students from all of the various art disciplines, to have exposure to professional artists and galleries,
and have their work critiques by external art professional. Students also have the the benefit of spending time on
a university campus and to experience what it might be like to study art professionally.

ANNUAL DR KEN MARSHALL ART & DESIGN AWARDS

In November, the Art & Design Department
hosted the 18 Dr Ken Marshall Art & Design
th
Awards.
This remarkable exhibition of students’ works
created throughout the year showed enormous
diversity of media and method and was indicitive
of the richness of the Visual Arts program
offered at the School.
Similarly, the work of students in the Design
courses (Design & Technology, Industrial
Technology (Timber) and IPT), showcased the
students’ inventiveness, curiosity and creative Mr. Ian Harrison (Head of Design & Technology), Ms Julie Hiam
(Visuals Art Teacher), Mrs. Sally Herron (Head of Visual Arts)
problem-solving. and Dr. Ken Marshall.