Events

On the 9th of March, Year Ten, Eleven and Twelve art students arose with excitement as we all made our way into the great City Of Sydney to see Art Express and the Archibald. I woke up in the darkness of the morning to meet at the train station for 7am, with the help of coffee and the smiles of my friends we headed in early to get some delicious French pastries for breakfast. At 9am the whole group came together and we excitedly headed to the Art Gallery of NSW; we went into art express and were pleasantly greeted with the level of creativity, talent and original ideas of prior Year Twelve students' pieces.

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Everyone seemed to really enjoy the video art, along with the photography and drawings. I particularly liked the sculpture with all different old books which has been cut up, burnt, and manipulated to give them personality and meaning. Everyone received each others feedback as we sat outside enjoying some lunch under the sun so we could be rejuvenated to see the famous Archibald.

This year's Archibald was overflowing with Australian talent and everyone enjoyed seeing some well known faces being displayed, a favourite amongst the group was the little Aboriginal boy who was painted with a staggering amount of realism, my personal favourite was Anthony Bennet whose style I fell in love with and consequently voted for him for people choice! After soaking up all the art works from the day, I think everyone walked out of the gallery more inspired for their own artworks and were ready to either take their tired feet home, or frolic around the city a little longer.

Leah Marojevic in Yr 11