2015-16 Academy Art Exhibition

The 2015-16 Academy IB Diploma Art Exhibition was themed ‘Unveiling the In-Between Truth’. Its leitmotif was the search for identity in a post-modern world. Through drawings, paintings, mixed media, junk sculptures, photo-performance and digital art, diploma art students tackled abstract issues linked to this theme.

The DP visual arts course is thought-provoking, encouraging students to challenge their own creative and cultural boundaries while perfecting their skill and gaining confidence as art-makers. Our students learn to appreciate the diversity of the world around them through inquiry, investigation, reflection and creative application.

• Ayan Kanhai Aman explored a post-colonial perspective in addressing issues of power, race and ethnicity
• Snehil Maknojia appealed to minimalism and line-drawing to discuss the socio-political issues of environmental degradation and human exploitation.
• The arbitrariness of human violence and its linkage to the human psyche was underlined by Inaara Sarfani.
• Khushboo Shah used abstract expressionism as she tapped into the enigma of human hunger for hegemony and the intricate matrix of human emotion.
• Inara Dodhiya worked with the fragmentation of human society as her subject.

MYP-5 students took on the subject of storytelling and demonstrated their artistic abilities through experimenting with individual narrative styles. They used a diverse selection of mediums including acrylics, oil, paper clay, junk materials, found objects, photography, mixed media and digital graphic design software.