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ACCUMULATE: Sculpture & Installation Inquiry Project 01
ACCUMULATE was an exploratory sculpture project that encouraged students to discover the artistic possibilities of everyday materials. Rather than beginning with traditional art supplies or a predetermined sculptural form, students were invited to work with what they could find: discarded objects, household items, fragments of packaging and materials collected from their surroundings. The project began…
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IB VISUAL ARTS @ MACRO
Miriam Cahn & Hito Steyerl | Exhibition Research Trip Grade 11 and Grade 12 IB Visual Arts students took part in an enrichment visit to MACRO, Rome’s Museum of Contemporary Art, exploring exhibitions by Miriam Cahn and Hito Steyerl. The visit provided an opportunity to experience contemporary artworks first-hand, investigating how artists employ visual strategies,…
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FRAMING WITH MY HAND
Video Art & Moving Image | High School Elective Grab your camera. Frame something. Press record. See what happens. Framing with My Hand was a fast, improvised introduction to visual thinking for students in Marymount’s new Video Art & Moving Image elective. Working beyond the classroom, students used the video cameras on their mobile phones…
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Homo Faber Biennial, by Luna F. Visual Arts Ambassador
Every second September, held amongst the gardens of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, is the Homo Faber Biennial- a homage to contemporary craftsmanship. In an age where we are becoming increasingly digital, Homo Faber celebrates human talent and presents the work of hundreds of craft artists from…
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Grade 7 / 8 Palazzo Barberini Enrichment Trip
Tuesday, May 19th our Grade 7 and Grade 8 Visual Art students visited Palazzo Barberini for an extended morning with two of Caravaggio’s most powerful works: Judith Beheading Holofernes and Saint John the Baptist. Guided by Ms Mardešić and Mr Donnelly, students spent significant time in front of each painting, examining chiaroscuro, brushwork, the handling…
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Seeing Rome Through the Eyes of a Realist
In this photography project, students investigated the visual language of Realism through close observation of contemporary Roman life. Drawing inspiration from nineteenth-century Realist artists, such as Jean-François Millet and Gustave Courbet, who sought to represent ordinary people with honesty and dignity, students explored how the streets of modern Rome continue to reveal stories of labor,…
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Cubism, Identity, and the Fragmented Self
This Grade 8 Cubist portrait project asked students to reconsider one of the most familiar subjects in art: the face. But rather than treating portraiture as a single frozen image, students explored identity as something unstable, layered, fragmented, and constantly reconstructed through perception. Working through photography, digital collage, and Cubist strategies of fragmentation, students produced…
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The Creation of Adam — Drawing as Observation, Patience and Construction
This extended graphite drawing project marked the culmination of the Grade 7 Visual Arts journey through Early Christian, Byzantine, Medieval, and Renaissance art. Across the year, students investigated how images communicate belief, authority, symbolism, and human experience through mosaics, illuminated manuscripts, observational studies, printmaking, painting, and historical inquiry. This final project brought many of those…
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IB Visual Arts Vernissage 2026: Identity, Memory, and Transformation in Practice
The IB Visual Arts Exhibition represents the culmination of two years of sustained investigation. It is not simply a presentation of resolved artworks, but the outcome of an ongoing process in which ideas, materials, and visual language are tested, refined, and brought into a coherent body of work. This year’s exhibition brought together three distinct…
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Grade 8 Impressionism: Painting Light, Colour, and Atmosphere
In this Grade 8 painting project, students explored the poetic language of Impressionism through close observation of light, colour, and atmosphere. Inspired by key works from artists such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, students investigated how painters of the late nineteenth century transformed everyday scenes into luminous studies of perception. Rather than focusing on…
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