PHOTOSTORY-A CONSTRUCTIVIST LEARNING EVENT.

SHEARWATER SITE DAY- A Site Specific Public Ephemeral Installation

Students were asked to make an artistic response to a specific site on the Sherawater campus.

Students are given preperation work to consider how to place their artwork in a specific environment.

Students are encouraged to experiment with a range of material practices and develop their conceptual ideas including documentation in a Visual Arts Process Diary.

Practicing installation artists from the local community are bought in to showcase their practices.

Students worked on individual and collaborative projects.

In this photostory the students are working together with a practicing artist to highlight a specific tree on the Shearwater site.
The tree highlighted is a strangler fig. It is being hosted by a native tree and will eventually strangle and overcome the host tree. The conceptual strength of this work is based on a wider understanding of colonization. Student working on this piece considered the traditional custodial owners of the site and the last 100 years of land use in this area.
Problems to be overcome included what materials to be used, how to apply the material and what colours should be worked with.

All works were viewed by a large public audience. Students were gived feedback and asked questions in relation to their specific work.