HSC Bodies
of Work
Welcome to the Ascham 2022 HSC Bodies of Work catalogue where our girls have continued to shine and showcase their wonderful talents.
2022 Year 12 Artists
This year’s exhibition displays the work of 36 Visual Arts students in a range of media areas, including drawing, graphic design, painting, printmaking, textiles and photomedia. The outstanding work the girls have produced represents a significant relationship between themselves and their teachers, and is the product of several terms of experimentation and sheer hard work.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the members of the Visual Arts Department, who alongside me have taught Year 12 – Vanessa Chalmers, Sharon Hare, Stephen Lowther and Emily Turner – for their exceptional work in guiding the girls through this process. Their experience, knowledge and resolve to see each and every girl do their very best has resulted in a range of highly resolved artworks. Thanks must also go to Stephen Lowther for taking and processing the photographs for this online catalogue, and to Andrew Mallon for his terrific work in formatting it.
The prestigious Ascham Foundation Art Award will be announced at the official HSC opening.
Congratulations to each of our talented Year 12 students, and on behalf of the whole Visual Arts Department I wish you well for your HSC and the years beyond.
Jeff Morabito | Head of Visual Arts/Design & Technology
Brinda Cannock
Suppressed to Survive
My body of work reveals our inner emotions and complexities, realised through animal-inspired costume, texture and pose that echo these primal feelings. Captured in a studio setting and edited in an almost alien-like way, the stylistic choices seek to convey the manipulated and removed nature of our animalistic nature, suppressed to survive.
Allegra Carlton
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Still Doesn’t Rule the World
Despite the progression in gender equality, the lasting impact of ingrained social expectations on women are exposed and manipulated in my body of work. I chose to have adolescent women as my subjects to reflect the binding pressure women face from a young age. Through surrealist techniques, juxtaposing symbolism and performance-inspired photographs, the imagery confronts the viewer, asking them to reflect on their own position and contribution to such idioms.
Sidonie Carter
The Mother Wound
My artwork intends to subvert the idealised relationship of a mother and daughter, to instead depict the aspects of toxicity that may arise as a reaction to the intergenerational and societal pressures of motherhood. I wanted to depict the emotional struggle within the negative facets of this dynamic as I believe it is seldom discussed in Australian society. The three images I have drawn represent different aspects of influence of a mother on her daughter, including pressure to perform, fractured self-image and disorderly eating habits.
Saskia Collett
Domestic Savagery
The deception of animal cruelty in our consumer-driven society is explored throughout my body of work. The implementation of the aesthetic view in domestic environments reveals the incivility of humans and their savagery. Reversing roles of human and animal aspects introduces the irony of gruesome elements in human practices.
Evie de Mestre
Stillborn Cities
Caitlin Gamulin
Synergy
Human identity is formed and reformed through experience, relationships and the culture and beliefs that surround us. Our sense of self is not illusory, but neither is it permanent nor impermeable. It is a matter of constant reinterpretation and active construction with gradual influence. My body of work explores this process through the combination of studio photography, expressive mark-making and digital manipulation, leaving interpretation open to the audience who will bring their own experiences to their understanding.
Olivia Gaspar
Shared Intimacy
Grace Gibson
Sera’s Daughters
Marama explores the intimate relationship within my family, that incorporates Fijian and Pasifika culture, in particular women. I look at the impact of my mother and her sisters, coming to Australia when they were young and the loss of their mother, which shaped the intergenerational experience of my whole family that was separated from culture. I attempt to capture the beauty and heart of the feminine within my family that experienced the loss of matriarch, that held the link to our indigeneity.
Emma Hassett
The Timeless Façade
Erica Herron
Neo-ecosystems
Saskia Hosking
Flora, Fauna & Flaw
Milla Laguna
Memory Box
Harriet Lotz
Expanding Worlds
Amelia Lye
Slices of a COVID Life
My body of work explores the world before and after COVID-19. Choosing famous landmarks of significance before and after COVID, I have then sliced these two images together to create one fragmented work.
Lulu Maison
Eyes Wide Open
Rose Mather
The Divine Revelation
I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice. Into the Inferno.
Dante Alighieri, Inferno
Tehya McEvoy
SAINT X
Inspired by religious iconic art, my body of work aims to explore the shift in moral values in our 21st century society; characteristics and behaviours once perceived as flawed or corrupt have been repackaged into a glorified form that we can idolise and aspire to. Through creating a new generation of deities, personas that embody these destructive modern ideals, I encourage the audience to question whether these traits are really worthy of worship.
Emma McKechnie
Dreamscapes
My body of work triptych explores the concept of dreams, their purpose, variety and complexity. In the series I depict three types of dreaming: vivid, deep sleep and night terrors. Dreams help us to sort through our most complex emotions and store memories. When dreaming we can push the limits of our creativity without the distraction of external information; our subconscious takes our real-world reality and warps it just beyond our comprehension.
Amy McKenzie
SAINT X
Inspired by religious iconic art, my body of work aims to explore the shift in moral values in our 21st century society; characteristics and behaviours once perceived as flawed or corrupt have been repackaged into a glorified form that we can idolise and aspire to. Through creating a new generation of deities, personas that embody these destructive modern ideals, I encourage the audience to question whether these traits are really worthy of worship.
Alisha Nainu
Bloom
Bertille Niaz
Day Dream City
My body of work explores our need for imagination to transport us to other worlds and away from the monotony of life. Photographs of the city are juxtaposed with colourful, digitally drawn creatures and scenes. These images create a sense of childlike imagination and awe, an escape from everyday life.
Amelia Parker
A Life, Interlaced
Mimi Perkin
Dualism
Dualism – the relationship between the mind and body. My body of work aims to paint one’s physical likeness while filling it with a tranquil landscape reflecting a connection to the land. I aim to encapsulate the beauty of the Australian landscape, one which holds many memories and stories for each individual.
Mala Reypert
In My Language, Mala Means Light
Isabella Rutledge
Droughts, Floods and Loss
My body of work explores the connection between my family history and their strong link to land ranging from northern New South Wales up to Far North Queensland. I aim to depict, through a series of watercolour paintings, the hardships and experiences of my elders who survived droughts, floods, and loss of livestock as they worked to make a living.
Sophia Rutledge
Impermanence
Olivia Ryan
Enduring Presence (Generations of Women)
Flowers are a universal symbol of beauty and are traditionally associated with femininity. My body of work symbolically represents different flowers; each a symbol of significant women in my family. Each different flower becomes a symbol of an enduring individual memory of their presence. My work aims to capture the beauty I identify in these women.
Lauren Seeto
Manifestations of the Unconscious
Rosie Sharpe
Age, History, Memory and Loss…
My body of work explores the experiences faced by people and the ways in which self-experience shapes individuality and what we become. Through a collection of texts and family memorabilia, I aim to depict the impact of age, history, memory and loss on our perspectives. By stitching back into these images, I want to bring a sense of connection between these experiences and each person’s perspective.
Krista Simmons
Through the Magnifying Glass
Ava Stahl
Where Do We Come From?
My body of work explores the physical and anatomical connections that exist between humans and animals. I aim to explore the idea that humans evolved from animals and identify the similarities and differences that exist between the two species. I have shown these differences using a fine tip pen to represent the animal anatomy, and pencil to represent the human species.
Lucinda Stevenson
It’s Becoming Easier
Eva Stewart
The Way the World Ends
Sophie Stratton
Co-Being
Zoe Strelitz
While the World Changes
My work explores the concept of how it is ‘in with the old’, ‘out with the new’, and how the different decades have changed throughout the changing era. My photographs illustrate the bringing in of the new modern world that ties in with the old, to make them connect to each other.
Wilhelmina Urquhart
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
