Earthquakes are natural phenomena caused by the abrupt release of energy in the Earth’s crust, which predominantly occurs along tectonic plate boundaries. The impact of these seismic events is often devastating, causing the destruction or damage of buildings and resulting in numerous casualties and injuries. To mitigate these catastrophic outcomes, engineers and architects invest significant… Read more: ✮ Science Engineering Project ✮

Throughout the second semester, we focused on multiple different styles of printmaking, which gave us a new understanding of the many types of printmaking there are. We first started with potato printing, cutting out shapes in potatoes and painting them, which gave cool, simple designs. Then moved on to frottage prints, a technique in which… Read more: ✮ Experimental Printmaking ✮

In Traditional Drawing this term we focused on drawing self-portraits. At the beginning of the term, we learn about useful techniques, such as cross-hatching and hatching, perspective, creating highlights, and negative space. This eventually came into use when we started the process of making the self-portraits. Evaluating Skills: I felt I was good at getting… Read more: Traditional Drawing Evaluation

In visual arts this term we created a colourful piñata shaped from mythical hybrid animals. We made this piñata for our year 8 transition day to present in front of the parents. We spent several weeks researching, designing and making this project. It was a fun process and the end result ended up being very… Read more: Visual Art Piñatas

In Hass we had the task of writing a letter to the MP about a current problem in Australia that we feel passionate about, and I chose violence against women. The purpose was to influence our MP into making a change about that current problem. This is my letter: Dear Mr Morton,  I am writing… Read more: 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐌𝐏

In art this term we learnt about brutalism. First we looked at brutalist buildings and the certain ways of the unique design of those buildings, this gave us a better understanding of brutalism. Then we started the planning of our project. We created multiple different lego brutalist sculptures, and took photos of those sculptures. After… Read more: 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐁𝐫𝐮𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐄𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧