[Studio Arts]
HOLIDAY HOMEWORK
2015/6
Teacher/Subject Coordinator
Contact:
Neil Barker
Email: barker.neil.n@edumail.vic.gov.au
Holiday Homework Required:
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Recommended Work:
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Resources Required for Subject: A3 Visual Journal
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Studio Arts – 2016
Unit 3
What you can do in preparation for Term 1:
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Obtain/Purchase an A3 visual diary. Label and include name and contact number.
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Explore ideas of special interest or significance to you.
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A subject that has scope and you feel strongly about.
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Look at possibilities, brainstorm words that come to mind when thinking about your theme. Think
broadly –avoid being too specific.
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What viewpoint/s could you express in your work? What are your feelings about the theme?
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Identify key words that have some connection to your possible viewpoint
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What are they expressing?
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Think in terms of imagery that comes to mind that could be used to represent your subject matter.
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Develop this imagery.
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Discuss your ideas and their development in your journal.
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Look at existing / other imagery that has some possible significance to your theme.(This could be
other artist’s work, found images / articles / photographs)
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Include this in the Visual Journal. Begin to create a resource based on your ideas, what interests
you in the world that could be relevant to your theme/ work.
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Visit exhibitions of both contemporary and traditional artwork.
Be aware of other artist’s ideas and their use of different media. (If possible look them
up on the internet).
Identify what they are expressing in their work and how they are achieving this
Include this in your journal
Relate this to your own ideas
Exhibitions to visit: possible suggestions
NGV International
Blue- Alchemy of a colour
Richard Mosse –The Enclave
International Art
Andy Warhol and Ai Weiwei
NGV Ian Potter Centre
Australian Surrealism & its Echoes
Pleasure and Reality
Rigg Design Prize 2015
Les Mason-Solo
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Aleks Danko- My fellow AUS-TRA-ALIENS
Alex Selenitsch –Life/Text
Modern Love – The lives of John and Sunday Reed
ACMI Australian Centre for the Moving Image
ACCA Australian Centre for Contemporary Art -111 Sturt Street, Southbank - The Biography of Things
Tarrawarra Museum of Art – Howard Arkley (& friends)
Looking at the City/Flinders Lane Galleries at the range of Contemporary Art that is current in Melbourne.
Arc One Gallery
Fortyfivedownstairs
Gallery Gabrielle Pizzi
Flinders Lane Gallery
Anna Schwartz
Boscia Galleries
45 Flinders Lane
45 Flinders Lane
75-77 Flinders Lane
137 Flinders Lane
185 Flinders Lane
175 Flinders Lane
Outre Gallery
249 Elizabeth Street
Pigment Gallery
Level 2 Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street
RMIT Gallery
344 Swanston Street
TCB Art Inc.
Level 1 Waratah Place, Melbourne
Tolarno Galleries
104 Exhibition Street
Westspace Inc
Level 1 Bourke Street
Collins Street Gallery
401 Collins Street
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Richard Mosse The Enclave
Blue The alchemy of a colour
Pleasure and Reality
Surrealism and its echoes
The lives of John and Sunday Reed
Aleks Danko My fellow AUS-TRA-ALIENS
Alex Selenitsch Life and Text
Howard Arkley (& friends)
Mike Parr Dark Cave
ACCA The biography of Things