ARTEXPRESS EXHIBITION
On Thursday March 7th, both Year 11 and 12 Visual Arts students, escorted by Mrs. Hume and Mr. Peters visited the Art Gallery of NSW to view the ‘Artexpress’ exhibition and Case Study talk. In conjunction with this, the students visited the new North building of the gallery, The Sydney Modern Project. ARTEXPRESS is an annual exhibition of exemplary artworks created by students for the HSC in Visual Arts. The works represent a broad range of subject matter, approaches, styles and media including painting, photomedia, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, graphic design, documented forms, textiles and fibre, ceramics, time-based forms and collections of works. ARTEXPRESS represents the high standards and diversity achieved by Year 12 Visual Arts students in New South Wales schools and is a joint partnership between the NSW Education Standards Authority and the NSW Department of Education. Both Year 11 and 12 were amazed at the exhibition and grateful to hear the curator Louise Halpin and three Artexpress exhibitors in the case study talk in the auditorium.
After lunch, we went to the Sydney Modern Project. This new, open and accessible home for art, is sensitive to the beautiful parkland setting overlooking Sydney Harbour with its huge glass windows and monumental interior space. Students viewed the Louise Bourgeois exhibition; ‘Louise Bourgeois: Has the Day Invaded the Night or Has the Night Invaded the Day?’ Day and night, love and rage, calm and chaos, conscious and unconscious. Students entered an immersive world of emotional extremes in this exhibition of the art of Louise Bourgeois, one of the most influential artists of the past century. It reveals the extraordinary reach and intensity of her art, from her haunting Personage sculptures of the 1940s to her tough yet tender textile works of the 1990s and 2000s. It also reveals, as never before, the psychological tensions that powered her search, through a dramatic presentation in two contrasting exhibition spaces. Thank you to all the students on their exemplary behaviour and Mrs. Hume who greatly assisted our students on the day.
Mr Stephen Peters
Creative Arts Leader of Learning
