NEWS FROM THE CAPA DEPARTMENT
DRAMA
As 2020 drew to a close and we reflected on opportunities to perform that we had been denied this year due to the pandemic we decided that it was vitally important to find a way to create a work that we could share with our school community.
Accordingly, Year 10 Drama embarked on a rather ambitious endeavour to rehearse and perform a work in less than four weeks. There were two parts to the performance, the first was a series of monologues that explored the different experiences that people had dealing with the effects of the pandemic in 2020.
The second part was a play called Rainbow Dark which was a darkly humorous piece that examined our Government’s treatment of those people who had fled persecution in their own country and sought refuge in Australia. The Year 10 students did an incredible job in bringing these stories to life not just on stage but also through their work in design, costume, lighting, music and sound effects. Congratulations to all students in Year 10 Drama for their amazing efforts in creating this work to share with a number of classes that came to watch.
I would like to congratulate all students of Drama in 2020 for their energy, enthusiasm, dedication and hard work in class each week in what has been a very difficult year.
YEAR 10 VISUAL ARTS
Year 10 Visual Arts looked at the practice of John Woseley - an English Australian artist who works out in remote areas of Australia, documenting the landscape and integrating elements of it into his large scale drawings. The Year 10's were challenged to explore the school environment through the practice of Woseley, with each student given a thick piece of watercolor paper - the goal being an experience of place and a large scale communal artwork.
They were given a checklist of things to include in their artwork, such as a drawing a map, a list of things that they could see, detailed drawing and painting with a natural brush. They were also given the limitations of only using natural materials to create on their paper as well as pencil. The students got creative, crushing flowers into their work, dragging it over mud and using dirt to pigment their paper. Once finished, the paper were buried in the bushlands to be dug up a week later.
When they were unearthed, students were excited to find the changes taken place in their works, taking on more of the environment some even had bugs and moss on them!
Taking them back into the classroom, each student was given a different map grid of the local area and asked to map in over the top of the paper. A small group of students then laid out the works in grid and drew back into the works to connect them into a cohesive artwork which was then installed.
The students took away from this the role that process plays in the conceptual development of artworks, as well as having fun experimenting and creating something as a group.
Mr Mark Burian
CAPA Coordinator