Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize

The annual Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize Exhibition is open now! This prestigious award showpieces thought-provoking works by artists and designers from across Australia, bringing together a community of creatives to highlight our environmental concerns and hopes across the nation.

The works selected present fresh perspectives on our global climate crisis and sustainable life on earth. They will be on show in an outstanding exhibition of art and design from 2 – 25 August at Manly Art Gallery & Museum, Curl Curl Creative Space and Mona Vale Creative Space Gallery.

One of our talented Art students was selected as a finalist this year. Congratulations to Alana R for her artwork titled, Eyes Wide Open.

Do go along and have a look if you can through August, the quality of the works in the exhibition is always outstanding, and we were thrilled that one of our student's work is a part of it.

Kindifarm Incursion

We were so excited to welcome ‘Kindifarm’ to Stella this week for a Year 7 Visual Arts incursion: ‘Animals Alive’!

Our budding artists spent the morning developing their drawing and observation skills as well as learning a little about ‘life drawing’ (drawing something in real life) and in the case of baby lambs, ducklings and piglets: those life drawing models were very wriggly!

Our students experimented with a variety of materials: charcoal, graphite, and white pencil on black paper to experience the different results, and experiment with tone, texture and composition.

The students had a lovely time and were thoughtful with the animals, being quiet and calm as well as doing a wonderful job focusing on the task in hand. We have some wonderful drawings from the morning which the students can develop upon in class.

It was so lovely to have the animals visit and a bit of a treat for the other year groups (and teachers!) to come and say hello.