Final days of Arts Week

We'll Arts Week is almost all over for an other year. The week was started in grand style on Wednesday night with the Graduate Visual Art Exhibition and Media/Multimedia Showcase.

The Drama students proved that they are talented group yet again when they moved their audience to laughter and tears on Thursday night. The week was made complete with the wonderful year 11 and 12 MSC and year 10 Kinross College dancers performing So You Think You Can Dance inspired acts at the college. What a mind blowing week of performances! If you haven't been yet I hope you have your tickets to see the music students perform at Metrognome tonight and tomorrow night.

On the Visual Arts scene this weekend are these articles to be found here (about the changing style of galleries) and here (about Australian artist Mike Parr).

Lastly your "Art Science Nexus" arm sculptures are now due in 7 school days (Friday 24th September)

Happy sculpting
Miss Riseborough

Arts Week Extravaganza

Welcome to week 8 of term! This week is extra special as the Visual Art Exhibition for the graduate year 12 students is this Wednesday night, 8th September from 6-7:30pm at the college. This starts the inaugural Arts Weeks at MSC; with great performances from Drama, Dance, Music, Media, Multi-media and Visual Art; so we hope to see you this week.

This week there are two articles from The Australian that would be great for you to read. These are here and here.

Have an art filled week,
Miss Riseborough

Artwork of the week

Unknown artist, Melbourne laneway, Australia, 2010

Things are getting busy around here

I hope you enjoyed a quiet weekend as its about to ramp up in Visual Art. This week's articles to view from The Australian include

1. An intriguing sculpture from Ken Thaiday Snr,
2. The winners of the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize,
3. Feminist art today, and
4. An interactive jungle, (check it out its so cool)

Arts Week is fast approaching; kicking off Wednesday 8th September with the Visual Art Graduate Exhibition. Opening in the school atrium at 6pm, come and support the year 12's and see the results of their year of hard work.

Until next class,
Happy art making
Miss Riseborough

Artwork of the week

Fiona Hall Understory (detail) (1999-2004)
Glass beads, silver wire, rubber, boar's teeth
Image courtesy of the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Politics vs' Art

Well what a weekend it was! With our political future in limbo, one thing that is clear this Monday morning is the weekend arts wrap-up.

The National Gallery of Australia in Canberra is still undergoing a revamp. When its finished it will arguably be the premier gallery space of Indigenous art in the country. For an example of the exemplary work it will display read  here.

Crime and art collide with Poppy Flowers by Vincent Van Gogh being stolen for a second time on the weekend.

The Public Works image of the week is a wonderful piece you may have seen before. Shown at Sculpture by the Sea, the annual sculpture exhibition held at Cottesloe beach, Mitsuo Takeuchi's, Transfiguration Screw was seen in 2009.
Until I see you in art history, have a good week. Make sure you have three of the five artist sheets ready for submission in your art history lesson this week
Happy working
Miss Riseborough.

Best Weekend Australian EVER

I know, it's a big statement, but I'll stand by it for the following reasons,

1. A wonderful story of one of Australia's great Indigenous talents, Western desert painter Jimmy Donegan
2. Two cultures clashed when sketches by Pre-Raphaelite Brother, Millias were found in a Led Zeppelin cover owned by Jimmy Page's chauffeur. This made me want to watch the ABC series "Desperate Romantics" about the dynamic, seedy, bohemian world of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood all over again
3. Art is getting a little political with the redesigning of the iconic Redheads matches
4. Articles on art theft are always fascinating
5. As always Public Works is here for you to practise image analysis. This week on Archibald Prize artist Cherry Hood's Joshua, and lastly
6. The exhibition of the week is straight from Sydney. For budding photographers Alfred Stieglitz's amazing tonal studies is a must see.

Phew... I'm exhausted from all the weekend reading! Enjoy
Happy working
Miss Riseborough