Arts Precinct Mural 2023

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TRANSFORMATION THROUGH THE ARTS

ROB CLARKE - VISUAL ARTS TEACHER Designer

The Arts precinct mural has been designed to enhance the arts experience for the school community and visitors to the CCAT.

Beginning with panel H (closest to the cark park west end)
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Students come to high school as a child, after being at the top of primary school, quite often they are confident and cool but some times they are apprehensive and unsure; will they have friends, will the teachers be kind?

IMAGERY

The tree represents knowledge.
 The apple is for the teacher.
The hungry caterpillar has already eaten the primary school leaf.
The green sphere is a seed yet to be sown.
The blue cat in the tree is a cool cat.
Rubik cube is a puzzle yet to be solved

Panel G, F, E MUSIC DANCE AND DRAMA

Students enter middle school experiencing the performing and visual arts which they may not have experienced before to the extent that high school offers.

IMAGERY
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The caterpillar continues the learning journey encounters new and unusual sights sounds ideas and challenges.
The seed has sprouted and developing from the earth
The cube is being played, options are explored.
In trying new skills techniques, we risk and experience failure hence diverse colours shapes textures and patterns.

​Panel D VISUAL ARTS (surrealist version of ‘THE SCREAM’ after Edvard Munch)

During the Middle Years students wonder and question their place in the world. What is this all for, we wonder what our place is in this world, students can get a bit mixed up, confused for a while.

IMAGERY
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The person shows confusion.
The flying saucer takes away the cow - representing what can be achieved with our imagination.
The lower images are mixed up confused compared to the other previous images.
The rooster watches in the foreground perplexed.

Panel C   PHOTOGRAPHY

Students get a focus on the future and start resolving some the questions that have been a concern for a while.

Imagery
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The person holding the camera was based on former visual arts teacher, the late Phil Heaton.
The spheres are forming in a more ordered manner.
The green growth is thriving despite ups and downs.

Panel B MULTI-MEDIA (film making)
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Students start to realise that they now have the tools to make their own story of life and start to create the story they have imagined.

Panel A (meta-morphos is now complete)

Students are now changed into their new selves and burst out into the world to explore the outside the school environment.

Imagery
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The focal point is the butterfly leaving the environment.
The greenery has grown to a level of maturity to produce flowers and the seeds are displaying diversity.
The Rubik cube is solved .
Butterfly has completely changed from the awkward caterpillar and explodes into the new environment in a POP ART explosion.