Posted CGGS Newsletter 34 - 14 November 2008
Photography - ‘Our Nation's Gardens' Photography Competition Winners
During Semester 2, 2008 the Creative Arts Faculty introduced Photography as a component of the Year 10 Visual Arts, Design and Technology course. Students were set a task that involved entering the annual Botanic Gardens competition and included an excursion to the gardens to take a range of creative and documentary photographic images. Each student in Year 10 was encouraged to submit four images; one for each of the competition's themes: black and white, people in the gardens, colour and digital manipulation.
These were judged by a committee of experts and Amy Goodall (10W) won a first prize of $150 in the open category for manipulated digital imagery. Shayani Dasanayaka (10D) received a Highly Commended certificate in the colour photography category. As a result of Amy being awarded first prize in this competition, the Creative Arts Faculty also received $150 and this will be put towards photographic resources for the Year 10 unit. The judges commented on the exceptionally high standard of entries from Canberra Girls’ Grammar School. Our congratulations are extended to all Year 10 students who entered this competition.
Brad Cooney
Head of Creative Arts Faculty
Posted CGGS Newsletter 27 - 12 September 2008
Congratulations to the following students who have received a Creative Arts Faculty Award for outstanding work:
Leah Winnett (12R) for her Acting for Camera Monologue performance.
Katharine Bassett (9K) for her beautiful watercolour landscape. Katharine has demonstrated great skill and sensitivity in this painting.
Brad Cooney
Head of Creative Arts Faculty
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Posted in CGGS Newsletter 25 - 29 August 2008
Dance
On Friday 12 September our students will perform Centenary at the Canberra Theatre as part of the Ausdance ACT Youth Dance Festival. Eighteen students have been rehearsing, including Elective Dance students Chloe Bambach, Mercie Taylor, Nadeshka Withanage and Rebecca Wojcik, who contributed to the choreography. They have responded to Ausdance ACT’s theme for the festival, ‘Time to …’ by reflecting on the Griffin legacy – the city in the landscape – as Canberra approaches its centenary. It is a contemporary dance piece, using as its backdrop photography and video footage compiled with the help of teacher and visual artist Mr David Warren. Congratulations to Leah Winnett who will co-compere the evening over three nights.
Visual Art
Congratulations to Elizabeth Gibbs who won the recent Australian Medical Association’s anti smoking art competition Art In Butt Out. Students studying Visual Art, Design and Technology in Year 8 at CGGS entered the annual competition, producing work of a high calibre. Elizabeth won this state wide competition and was presented with an award and a framed copy of her design. Elizabeth’s work will appear on Canberra Milk Cartons from mid September. Elizabeth’s work is also currently on display in the Senior School Reception area.
Brad Cooney
Head of the Creative Arts Faculty
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Posted in CGGS Newsletter 24 - 22 August 2008
PEOPLE'S CHOICE ART AWARD
422 people voted for our first Peoples Choice Art award during the week. Thank you to all staff and students who voted.
The winner is Anna Trundle (12G) for her portrait of her brother. Congratulations to Anna! Anna has won a $30 gift voucher from Eckersley’s Art Store.
An honourable mention goes to Dalya Alaraji (12K) and Sofia Turtle (12D) for their respective portraits.
Congratulations to all Year 12 Art and Design students for producing such interesting and engaging work!
Brad Cooney
Head of the Creative Arts Faculty
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Posted CGGS Newsletter 22 - 8 August 2008
CGGS Acquisitive Art Prize
CGGS Acquisitive Art Prize $250: This year we will be introducing an exciting new initiative in the Creative Arts Faculty. Students in Years 10, 11 and 12 will be eligible to submit up to three artworks each for the first CGGS Annual Acquisitive Art Prize. Students do not need to be studying a Creative Arts subject to submit work for the prize. Two dimensional work completed in drawing, painting, digital media (including short films), photography, textiles and print media will be accepted. Unfortunately due to space restrictions three dimensional sculptural work will not be accepted. The Prize will be judged annually by a qualified member of the Canberra Arts Community from outside of the School. The exhibition of entries for the prize and the announcement of the winning entry and prizes for highly commended works will occur in Term 4. Students who are interested in entering work for this prize can pick up an application form and information from Mr Cooney, Head of Creative Arts Faculty, from Week six of this term.
Congratulations to Michelle Hocking (12B) for qualifying to travel to Newcastle to attend the state finals of the APEX Teen Fashion Awards on 6 September. We wish Michelle well on her quest to make it to the next stage, the National Finals.
Congratulations to Lily Kentwell (11B) for her extended exposure photograph of Canberra at night published in a recent edition of the prestigious Australian Photography magazine. What a wonderful achievement for a student photographer.
Brad Cooney
Head of Creative Arts Faculty
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Posted CGGS Newsletter No 10 - 11 April 2008
Over the course of Term 1 our Creative Arts students and teachers have been actively engaged in a wide range of learning opportunities. It has been wonderful to see the quality of the work that our students have produced in disciplines such as Drama, Dance, Visual Arts and Design, Photography, Textiles and Design and Hospitality. I would like to congratulate every student on their efforts throughout the term and acknowledge the following exemplary pieces of creative work. These students have received Faculty awards in Term 1: Stephanie Russell (12K) for her monologue performance in Senior Drama, Bharti Arora (9G) and Ashley St George (9D) for their charcoal/conte crayon portrait studies in Art.
Brad Cooney
Head of Creative Arts Faculty
