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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