This week across the College students have been involved in many different Visual Art activities, centred around the Japanese Artist, Yayoi Kusama. A group of students from Years 7-12 were immersed in Yayoi’s instillation piece, ‘The Spirits of the Pumpkins Descend into The Heavens’ on display at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Students also visited the MOD Gallery exhibition, ‘Reveal the Unseen, Discover Invisibility’ which explored ideas around the constant cameras watching society, as well as how Visual Art can express contemporary issues such as deep time, and the connection we have with where we live.
As Yayoi, the focus Artist is known for her immersive polka dot instillations, students were able to explore this by painting an instillation art piece, taking photos with polka dot inspired filters, drawing Yayoi’s famous dot mushrooms and be a part of adding to a stand-in wall mural. Visual Arts Week was a chance for students to meet and connect with others who are interested in this diverse and creative learning area. The area of Visual Arts allows students to reflect critically on their own experiences as well as discover how they can express and communicate these through the many forms that are Visual Art.
