Visual Arts

Visual Arts at Colonel Light Gardens (CLG) Primary School is taught to all students across the years and encompasses all of the different art skills and modalities. Students experiment with and create using, drawing techniques, painting, sculpture, fabrics, modelling, printmaking, digital arts and design.

Students have the opportunity to share their art works with parents and the school community through our bi-annual South Australian Living Artists (SALA) exhibition. Our graduating senior students also exhibit at the end of their primary years as part of their graduation process.

Students have the opportunity to work with artists in our community through our Artist in Residence program. Students also attend exhibitions at the Art Gallery of South Australia when the exhibitions support our learning within the arts space.

The art room is a place of success and creativity and extra curricula activities are guided by our arts leaders. Students have the opportunity to participate in our art activities during Gozen where we create artworks to celebrate students creativity, promote wellbeing practices or connect with our community through art.

Each year the students of CLG create Art Trading Cards that are shared across the school and when students follow our school values of Care, Respect and Safety they receive a trading card form the teachers or our school leadership team, to trade with their peers. This allows students across the school to connect and communicate with art as their shared dialogue.

Creativity is our shared language.

“When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, “You mean they forget?”” – Howard Ikemoto