St Clair High School
Year 10 students created a temporary, site-specific work on the school grounds from recycled glass tiles. The artwork acts like an oasis, a buffer from playground noise.
11 August 2020
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our project is about recycling and
reusing objects to create beauty out of
trash we're out in the open using public
areas is a lot different to with a
canvas so the students have chosen a
site at the back of the school and it
sort of exists like an oasis or a
retreat from the noise of the playground
has taught me that we can use a
variation of their resources and areas
we can make it creative and expressive
no matter what it's it's within the
belly over leaning of trees and they've
developed this very intuitive site
specific installation that was inspired
by actually Andy Goldsworthy they come
out here they drew the space and I just
wanted them to work together as a group
collaborative and make patterns and
shapes and and in an intuitive work
drawing these lines intuitively but when
we took a step back and reflected we
noticed that there are a lot of common
themes and patterns which were emerging
and and students then we're talking
about the artwork as as a calming space
I will just connect it somehow to the
beach cuz of the blues and the peace it
feels like you know there's no specific
lines
you have to follow a rule and then can
be expressive and use all make shell to
your advantage
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personally I'm not fond of group work so
it was something very different for me
it taught me ways to cooperate with
people and try to share our ideas rather
than doing my own thing all at once
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it's all different ideas so it's not
just one person with their perspective
it's so many different people coming
together and it's still looking really
awesome at the end
Art's a musical is like painting and
drawing now it's a lot more like you
know free I can choose where I want to
do it with what I want to do yes there
mark making their jewelry naturally in
the ground and I really like how we're
sort of doing that process so like
Christo drawing first and then actually
doing the mark making with the tile so
they're very abstract and very organic
our project has helped me to understand
that co-creating nature into our work is
a really important thing because it
helps people realize just how important
our world is to us and that we should
really strive our best to become one
with it
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