Visual Arts @ StH

Artmaking at St Hilda’s encourages best practice with 21st Century approaches, techniques and technologies while valuing all forms of wisdom in the search for meaning.

The idea that Art is another way of knowing and communicating is at the heart of programmes from Years 7 – 12. With its focus on visual literacy, students are constantly challenged to find their own ‘voice’ through the artmaking process by experimenting with ideas, new and traditional media and a wide range of techniques to allow them to evolve a personal aesthetic. To this end the curriculum is constantly revised and evaluated.

Learning is a process of solving problems and making sense of the world, there isn’t one right answer that stands forever and a day – not in our own lives, not in science. Learning is a process of unfolding meaning through an ever-deepening process of understanding. On a purely physiological level, it is the creation of networks in the brain, a process made visible through new technology of brain imaging.

The art vision, like the literary one, is unique and the so called geniuses are the ones who unpack this unique vision in their own way. In this philosophy THERE ARE NO FORMULAS.