Stanmore Art and knowledge on display In Term 3, the 31 Visual Arts Higher School Certificate students and 7 International Baccalaureate students exhibited their final artworks in two separate exhibitions at Concordia Gallery. The HSC exhibition, Mapping Questions, opened on Thursday 9 August, and the IB exhibition, Unravelling, opened on Thursday 13 September. Both exhibitions were framed around the relationship between art and knowledge – how art is used as a tool to research, and what artmaking practices are shared by other domains of knowledge like poetry and formulas or diagrams. The boys’ artworks pose questions about gaps in formal knowledge and provide reflections about their own experiences in relation to those formal Artworks by Hamish Johnson. knowledge structures. Cameron Brown (12/PR) began with a connections between mind, body and feels like within a nuclear family. medical X-ray and thoroughly employed society. The spheres balancing In an era of education that is coming to the field of printing to transform it into a precariously reflect the fragile new understandings about creativity and series of abstract monoprints, etchings equilibrium of the network of these three in an age of art when knowledge is and digital prints. Hetook a known format entities that form one’s sense of self. increasingly aligned with processes and used for diagnoses and manipulated it Anton Fichtenmaier’s (12/MO) series of outcomes, we are very proud of the to the point of illustrating recovery. works presents his personal history with boys who are pursuing original ideas Hamish Johnson (12/FL) conducted water and the consequences it has had about their encounters with the world. significant cultural and social research on his life. Through video, sculpture and Whether it’s with fine art realistic into how humans perceive themselves projection, the ripple effect can be seen drawing or contemporary photography, the though a filter of idealised cinema in his everyday experience. 2018 cohort have used their artmaking profiles and situations. Using the Tyrell Villania-Small’s (12/MO) oeuvre skills to share their values meaningfully. metaphor of rotten fruit, Johnson used deals with his cultural family experience We are very grateful to the senior teachers the techniques of image production and and the weaving of seemingly different Mr Andrew Thompson, Ms Marina Hinves manipulation to create an image values and traditions. He employs the and Mrs Natalie O’Connor, whose diagram, showing perceived reality recognised national codes of dress, flag teaching practices set conditions for versus experienced reality. and sports competition as his vehicles high achievement for their students. Oliver Sheldrick’s (12/JN) Tension for investigation into lived cultural Ms Hannah Chapman sculpture masterfully explores the hybridity and diaspora and what that Concordia Curator/Visual Arts Teacher Above: Veni, Vidi, Victus Sum by Anton Fichtenmaier Left: Coloured by Tyrell Villania-Small 18| NEWS SPRING 2018| GRATITUDE