Middle School Visual Art

Autumn Term in Middle School Visual Art sees the continued development of valuable and transferable skills for our boys, with Ms Hill excited to be teaching the boys whilst Ms Walden is on maternity leave.

Having completed their wonderful Steam Punk Masks in Summer Term, our Year 6 boys are enjoying exploring "Australian Identity". Using their experiences of being in places they love in Australia, they are designing a relief print. Inspiration has come from the boys' own awesome photographs. e.g: home garden, underwater scenes from Rottnest Island, our stunning outback and Cottesloe Beach. Developmental Workbook annotations then form the "Artist's Statement".

Creating 3D cane and tissue sculptures is the challenge for the Year 7s. It is a delight to watch the boys work out and draw their "plans to build", translating 2D studies into 3D forms. Who knows, one day a Scotch boy may be designing the next Opera House or Olympic Stadium!

Our talented Year 8 students are exploring the theme "Emotions can be Communicated" by creating a self-portrait of their chosen emotion.

You can see examples of all of these projects in our fabulous Scotch Gallery at the always amazing "Inspirations" Exhibition held in Winter Term, on Wednesday 7 September.

Ms Lucinda Hill

Middle School Art Teacher