Melbourne Now and On Top of the World: Flags for Melbourne Project

Today at assembly Stewart Russell and Helen Johnson spoke about our school's involvement with Melbourne Now and On Top of the World: Flags for Melbourne project . We were also lucky enough to see the wonderful flag design that Helen Johnson has come up with using the children's artwork. Below I have included an article Hannah wrote for Talking Point for you to read.

Flags in Prep: Last term everyone in the Prep Neighbourhood designed a flag in a workshop after watching the Japanese film Totoro, these are being finished in the art space during Learning Agreement and some are currently displayed around the Neighbourhood.

Now we are designing a flag as a whole Neighbourhood with the help of Belinda (Noah V's mum). The project is in the beginning stages and children have been asked this week to design a symbol to represent themselves. Watch this space for more information about this project as it unfolds.

Article from Talking Point:

Princes Hill Primary School and On Top of the World :

Flags for Melbourne – A Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria  Exhibition

This project was developed by Stewart Russell from Spacecraft Studio, in collaboration with participating artists. On Top of the World: Flags for Melbourne is a public art project presenting flags designed by sixteen artists to be flown from flagpoles across the City of Melbourne, and concurrently presented in the Great Hall at the National Gallery of Victoria.

One of the exciting things about this project is that Princes Hill Primary School will be one of sixteen sites represented, (including Government House, The NGV, West Gate Bridge and the Exhibition Building). The reason our school will be one of the prestigious sites included in this project is because one of the five finalists for the 1901 Australian Flag competition was Ivor Evans, a 13 year school boy who attended Princes Hill State School. As a result, our school has been chosen as one of the prestigious sites to recognise the significant contribution of Ivor Evans.

The project is a unique opportunity for the city to engage with artists through the conversion of selected flagpoles into temporary gallery spaces.

On Top of the World: Flags for Melbourne extends the curatorial range of Melbourne Now and the NGV beyond their physical gallery spaces to become part of the day to day city experience.

 

The flags will take over 16 significant flag poles during the summer show, while a second set will be installed in the Great Hall at the NGV. In so doing the project provides Melbourne with access to the best visual art and design and in the context of their own community.

 

The individual artists and designers selected to create the new flags have been chosen to reflect the quality and breadth of creative talent in Melbourne. They have also been chosen to provide a diverse range of viewpoints to produce a memorable panoramic perspective of the city. Princes Hill Primary school will be represented by the artist Helen Johnson.

 

Melbourne Now will run from 22^nd of November 2013 – 23^rd March 2014. Flags for Melbourne will go up a week before the opening of Melbourne Now. We are excited to be a part of this wonderful exhibition.