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

Artist of the week

This one should be familiar to you all.

Patricia Piccinini, The Strength of One Arm (with Canadian Mountain Goat) 2009

Just in case you are yet to visit AGWA to see Piccinini's Relativity exhibition please go for a visit before this weekend as it's about to close!

Arts wrap up

Hi all! 
It's great to be blogging again. So a lot has been happening in the local arts scene while I have been off-line. 
Firstly there is a new Artistic Director for our festival. Perth International Arts Festival is delighted to announce the appointment of Jonathan Holloway, one of the UK’s most successful festival leaders, to the position of Artistic Director for 2012 to 2015.


An article you may like to read from the weekend, is the Public Works article from The Weekend Australian. This will be especially interesting if your interested in sculpture.

If you need to practise you're analysis skills this week's Public Works image is currently in the vertical file in the MSC library.
Lastly you will be given the outline for your semester two Investigation Case Study this week. As this is a great opportunity to submit work early and receive valuable feedback, gain more marks and select artists that inspire you please start this case study THIS WEEK. 
This website, as well as the artist links listed at the right of screen should be valuable resources for the task.


Happy working,
Miss Riseborough

Artwork of the week

 

Unknown artist, 2009

Artwork of the week

Slinkachu, Glory,2010
Grottaglie, Italy

Holidays are here!!!

Hi folks,

The end of term is upon us and its time for a well deserevd break. How are you spending yours??
I'm off to see some cool art, starting with the Eurpoean masters of art at the NGV and then off to see the master of gothic movies and animation Tim Burton, at his retrospective exhibition at ACMI .

While I'm in Melbourne I'll also check out some street art, hopefully a Banksy or two.


I'll also be busy planning some great art history and drawing lessons.
Make sure you have an awesome break and please spend a little time completeing and refining your skeleton, nature and hand drawings ready for the new term

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Miss Riseborough

Parent Night TONIGHT!

Feedback galore for all Visual Art students and their parents at MSC from 3pm until 8pm TONIGHT.

Meet 'Mark' the skeleton

I'd like to introduce you to Mark, the skeleton. He will be here to assist you explore anatomy for your Art Science Nexus project.

Happy drawing,
Miss Riseborough

Review Round-up

Hi all,

I need to apoligize for my absense over the past week. I have been gone but I haven't forgotten you, I am happy to give you a bundle of interesting reviews from the past two weeks.

For all budding photographers, or those who love portraiture chcek this out.




Are you still moved by the devestation of the 2009 Victorian bush fires, then have a look at this touching exhibition.



For a local review, have a look at Stephen Bevis' review of Patricia Piccinini's innovate exhibition on show at the Art Gallery of Western Australia until 22nd August.



Don't forget these review and many more are being stored for you in the MSC library's vertical files.

Miss Riseborough

Artwork of the week

Julie Rrap, Overstepping, 2000

Hi folks!

You should be familiar with this image as it greets you at our classroom door each day, however have you ever considered the meaning of this work?
To complement the studies of Julie Rrap from 'Artwise' page 166 you are doing in art history this week please visit the MCA link here to gain a deeper understanding of Rrap's artwork.

Happy studying
Miss Riseborough

Weekend Arts Wrap-up

Welcome back from your first MSC exam break. What a two weeks it has been! I hope you have rested over the weekend and are ready to kick off an awesome semester two, full of Visual Art goodness.
An article you may have missed on the weekend, was an update on Visual Art ledgend, Pop Artist of the past and current Art celebrity, David Hockney's latest exhibition. Embracing new technologies, specifically Apple's new ipad, Hockney states
"The iPad is many things, but one is a very useful new visual tool," he says. "There is a dark side to it. It doesn't take too much imagination to see it will get thinner, perhaps even like a piece of paper, and then they might be compulsory; an iPad passport with your whole life story in it, a sinister form of control."

Visit here for more detail

If you need to practise you're analysis skills this week's Public Works imageis currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art, in the collection show titled We Call Them Pirates Out Here. House Painting: Blackburn (Large Version), which has been curated by David Elliott, this year's Biennale of Sydney artistic director. Please see the vertical file in the MSC library for the image.

Artwork of the Week

Ricky Swallow, Everything is Nothing, 2003.

Beating the dreaded exam

Well it's here, your first Visual Art exam. It's not an event to be feared if you're well prepared. Have a look at these hints for some last minute help.

1. Use your time wisely; the first ten minutes allowed for reading time is the best time to analyse the source images.
   
2. Always break your essays into manageable sections; 7 minutes planning, 50 minutes writing and 3 minutes proof reading.
   
3. The easiest way to demonstrate your understanding of the source images is to support every statement with VISUAL EVIDENCE.
4. Awesome essays have awesome first impressions. Start your essays with a THESIS STATEMENT in your introduction that informs the reader of your intentions in a clear and concise manner.
5. Did I mention you need to PROOF READ?
   

Good luck this morning, don't panic and do your very best.
Miss Riseborough

How connected are you to reviews of current exhibitions across Australia? Not very... never fear, you don't have to jet off across Australia to be exposed to a variety of quality exhibitions. Every week in The Weekend Australian newspaper reviews one of the best exhibitions on show somewhere across Australia.
Never heard of this newspaper?? Don't fear the library has a subscription and stored in the vertical files every week are both the weekly exhibition review and 'Public Works'; a weekly analysis of one of Australia's public artworks.
To hard to walk to the library?? Well luckily posted here every week will be a link to this review.

For the first review see here and happy reading!

Miss Riseborough

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