Joshea Pearce Gr12

A little taste of what you might see at the exhibition

Exhibition

Exciting times as the Annual Art Exhibition approaches : September 11th - 20th

 

What's happening at Carinus?

Please have a look at our new list on the right of the screen showing what we are up to at the school this year. Please support us, diarise the dates, and keep a look out for details and changes. Look forward to seeing you all!

Start of a new year.

We are a few weeks into the first term, and we have jumped right in. It is going to be a very busy, but exciting year. Carinus was started in 1948, which means that it is our 65th birthday and we want to make it a very special year in celebration of this. Keep checking the blog for updates on upcoming events.

If you want to know more about the school's history click on our About Carinus page, or here.

Matric Exhibitions

At the end of every year, the Matrics each set up a personal exhibition of their year's work to be marked, and then moderated by external examinations. Here are images of some of those exhibitions.

GRAPHICS

 

 PAINTING

TEXTILES

SCULPTURE

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Exhibition 2012

The opening night, which by invitation only, is on 19 September and the exhibition is being opened by Mrs Lindsay Abrahams, who is the principal of Victoria Primary School. As with last year, all the second term's projects throughout the grades were centered around one theme: "Text and Time". Therefore this year one of the rooms of the exhibition is going to solely dedicated to this theme.

Please come and support the school, and the hard work of our learners.

Thank you for your support.

We, the Staff at Carinus, would like to thank the Grahamstown community for their support at the Art Auction and Fundraiser, held last week Friday. We feel that overall, the evening was a great success, and was hopefully enjoyed by all.

Here are some photos from the event.

 

 

Annual Art Auction and Fundraiser

The time of the year has come again when the school organizes the annual Art Auction. This year we are doing things a little differently. In the past we have had a seat down meal, however this year we decided to supply tasty cocktail snacks instead.

If you are interested please contact the school on 046 6224543 or email jcac@lantic.net . Hope to see you there.

Bathurst Show 2012 Gold Winners

Well, another Bathurst Show has come and gone and the Carinus learners continue to do well, and this is the 4th year in a row that the school has won the prize for producing the most winners. Out of 270 entries, there were 113 prizes awarded to Carinus learners.

The following is a list of all the learners that recieved Gold awards:

Victoria Primary
O. PAKUPI (GR 4)
E.MORGAN (GR 5) - BEST ON SHOW JUNIOR AWARD
F. EDDIE (GR 6)
Y. SIZANI (GR 6)

VGHS
L. BODLANI (GR 11)
S. SOTASHE (GR 11)
J. GOUGH (GR 12) - DOUBLE GOLD
N. DIXON (GR 12) - DOUBLE GOLD
N. LUPUWANA (GR 12)


Graeme College
J. HAEFELE
L. DORMEHL
A. CAROLUS
K. NTAPU
J. ALISON
C. MAYERS (GR 10)
J. PEARSE (GR 11)
B. KIRKALDY (GR 11)
N. NJOKWENI (GR 11)
S. NZUZO (GR 11)
Z. LUPAWANA (GR12)
D. WIBLIN (GR 12)

PJ Olivier
W. BRISLEY (GR 4)
R. VAN VUUREN (GR 5)
S. NZWENI (GR 5) - DOUBLE GOLD
A. NEL (GR 7)
M. CROUS (GR 12)


WELL DONE TO ALL THE LEARNERS WHO ENTERED, FOR ALL THEIR HARD WORK!!!

Carinus Colour Awards

We are pleased to announce that this year, for the first time ever, Carinus is giving Full Colour Awards to the top learners in Visual Arts and Design.

The following Gr 12 learners have earned their colour badgers for excellence in both the practical and theoretical components of their chosen subject.

DESIGN                                                              VISUAL ART
Megan Crous                                                        Megan Crous
                                                                             Dominik Petermann
                                                                             Lillian Roberts
                                                                             Tayla Solomon


Well done to all of you!!

Grade 10 and 11 awards will be made at our annual Prizegiving, at the exhibition, in September.

Bathurst Show 2012

It may be somewhat early to start mentioning the Bathurst Show, but the learners are already hard at work preparing  for the art section of the show. The Bathurst Show runs during the Easter holidays from 30 March to 1st April 2012. Click on the link if you would like to find out more about the Bathurst Show.

We'll be putting up pictures of the learners artworks as time draws nearer to the competition.

Photographs - old and new.

Please remember to check out our photos of school events and artworks on our Flickr account. We'll be adding both old and new photos, throughout the year. (You'll find the link of the right hand side of the screen.)

Matrics 2011

The staff at Carinus Art School would like to congratulate the Matrics of 2011 on all their hard work last year. In Visual Art there was 5 'A's, and 5 'B's, and in Design there was 1 'A' and '1' B. We would also like to wish all the Matrics of 2011 all the best for the future.

Matric Exhibtion

Now that the Annual school exhibition is out of the way, the Matrics now each have to put up their own personal exhibition of works from through the year. This work will be moderated within the next three weeks and the mark will go towards their final Matric mark.

Here are a few images of the some of the works.

 

Carinus Art Exhibition - SETTING UP

At the end of our third term, we held our annual Exhibition. Here are some photos from the week before, when the teachers were busy organizing and setting up the exhibition .

Annual Art Exhibtion

Well, its third term and that means that the school's annual art exhibition is coming up soon. Every year the teachers of both the junior learners (Grade 4 - 9) and the senior learners (Grade 10 -12) choose the best artwork to be displayed in a week long exhibition that is open to the public.

This year the opening night, which by invitation only, is on 21 September and the exhibition is being opened by Mr Keith van Winkel, who is the Director of the Arthur Cotton Center for Design and Technology at St Andrew's College.This year we are also doing something a little different. All the second project throughout the grades were centered around our environment and as artists and designers it is important to be aware of the effect that we have. Therefore this year one of the rooms of the exhibition is going to solely dedicated to environmental awareness - "The Green Room".

Please come and support the school, and all the wonderful work that the learners do.

Going once...going twice...SOLD! to the highest bidder.




Table decor

 

On 27th May, Carinus once again hosted the annual Banquet and Art Auction. The theme this year centered around "Green Cuisine" which was inspired by the class theme for this term of being eco-friendly. Going along with this theme the hanging flowers and most of the other decor was made with scrap paper, newspaper and magazines.

The staff incorporated the theme into the menu by serving an array of green foods which included Leg of Lamb served with Salsa Verde, as part of the main course, Pistachio Ice Cream and mint leaves dipped in chocolate as part of the dessert.




Apple Schnapps Cocktails

 

The auction included both artworks very kindly donated by local Eastern Cape artists as well as learners. This year we had the addition of a silent auction which was innovative way of buying art for those that are little less outspoken. 

All-in-all it was a very successful evening and we have had a lot of positive feedback. The Carinus staff would like to thank all the artists that so willingly gave their artworks for the evening, and to thank the guests that participated with such enthusiasm.  



Junior Silent Auction



Bathurst Show 2011

Every year, Carinus enters artworks done by the leaners into the Bathurt Show, which was held from 1 - 3 April. We, the staff, are always delighted when the leaners do well and this year was no exception. Two learners, both from PJ Olivier won the "Best show" prize for their category: Ruphael de Reuck (Grade 5) and Jasmine Kumm (Grade 8). From the Junior (Grade 4 - 9) section Carinus learners won 25 gold and 43 silver awards, whilst in the Senior (Grade 10-12) section Carinus learners won 16 gold and 26 silver awards.

We would like to thank all the learners that participated for all their hard work and encourage them to continue to enjoy their art.

Carinus Workshop

On 22nd January 2011, Carinus hosted a workshop that was attended by 25 educators from around the Eastern Cape. The workshop consisted of discussions around both the practical and theory components of the Visual Art and Design curriculums at FET level.