Top Arts Excursion

Yesterday I visited Top Arts in the city of Melbourne. as an excursion for my art class.
Top Arts is an art gallery displaying the top 47 artworks from VCE students the previous year. (So I saw last years VCE finals).

We spent an hour in the gallery looking at their work. Some artworks were absolutely extraordinary. gave me some great ideas and looked like a lot of time and effort had gone into them. Some on the other hand, I don't quite get why they're considered art, as they don't look like a lot of time and effort have gone into them.

After looking through the gallery we went upstairs to a room with two long tables and the folios of the students artworks that we'd just looked at. We had to wear gloves while looking at them, because having so many people daily, turning the pages would eventually ruin the folio. It was so surprising to me to see just how much work had gone into these folios. I'd been told doing a folio subject in VCE required a lot of work, but I didn't quite understand that until I looked through these books. Some kids had filled up to three folios with work. That's not the part that surprised me too much though, it was the annotations. Students wrote pages and pages of annotations which sort of stressed me out, as my annotations in my folio are absolutely nothing compared to theirs. I'm trying not to compare my work to theirs as they are at a year 12 standard, whereas I'm only in year 11. And these students are the best of the best in my state.

We then went to a lecture at the gallery where a lady spoke to us about some of the artworks and how they came together. It proved my thought of the time and effort put into the artworks. It was crazy.

If you're currently studying art, studio arts or visual communication I highly recommend going to Top Arts and having a look around as I've found it has motivated me to work harder in art. Art isn't as easy as I first thought it would be.
Something I plan to work more on is my annotations in art. Here are a few websites that could help you if you're looking to improve your art annotations too.
http://www.studentartguide.com/articles/a-level-art-sketchbook

http://www.artcoursework.com/Annotation.pdf

https://getrevising.co.uk/forums/topics/how_can_i_make_good_annotations

http://www.gosford-hill.oxon.sch.uk/page-content/documents/1434012949-ArtHowToImproveGCSE.pdf


Yours Truely,
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xoxo