[Studio Arts] HOLIDAY HOMEWORK 2015/6 Teacher/Subject Coordinator Contact: Neil Barker Email: barker.neil.n@edumail.vic.gov.au Holiday Homework Required: See Attached Sheets Recommended Work: See Attached Sheets Resources Required for Subject: A3 Visual Journal Key Links: See Attached Sheets Additional Resources: Insert Relevant Subject Image here Studio Arts – 2016 Unit 3 What you can do in preparation for Term 1: * Obtain/Purchase an A3 visual diary. Label and include name and contact number. * Explore ideas of special interest or significance to you. * A subject that has scope and you feel strongly about. * Look at possibilities, brainstorm words that come to mind when thinking about your theme. Think broadly –avoid being too specific. * What viewpoint/s could you express in your work? What are your feelings about the theme? * Identify key words that have some connection to your possible viewpoint * What are they expressing? * Think in terms of imagery that comes to mind that could be used to represent your subject matter. * Develop this imagery. * Discuss your ideas and their development in your journal. * Look at existing / other imagery that has some possible significance to your theme.(This could be other artist’s work, found images / articles / photographs) * 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. 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 v 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