Published on: 25 October 2013










Free Range 2013, featuring the Year 12 graduates of Visual Arts and Design’s production work alongside works from the Media, Graphics, Photography and Visual Arts students, opened in the Visual Arts, Design and Technology Building on Monday evening.

Head of Art Pam Yordanoff said this year’s guest judge was contemporary WA artist Andy Quilty, who was also one of the Senior School’s 2013 artists-in-residence. Andy, whose work explores ideas surrounding the social, psychological and physical landscape inhabited by the suburban Australian male, has received numerous awards. His 2012 debut exhibition sold out on opening night.

“Andy was impressed by the standard and mature quality seen in the work throughout the exhibition,” Ms Yordanoff said. “He marvelled at the offerings within the Art Department and acknowledged the expertise of staff, who provide such challenging artistic experiences.”

Ms Yordanoff said the Year 12 students were challenged with complex, open-ended project briefs and responded with professional standard, highly refined, resolved art and design works. “Their teachers were able to draw out the strengths of the students and facilitate a learning environment that allowed the boys to search deeply into thought-provoking, insightful visual statements,” she said.