VCE art on display EMMA CHANDLER, PUBLICATIONS COORDINATOR
Such was the standard of work at this year’s VCE Design and Creative Art Exhibition - Transit Lounge, it would have been easy to forget that the works you were looking at were created by teenagers and not long-established artists and designers. As you entered the exhibition, an enormous, dinner table was the first thing to catch your eye. Solid Blackbutt and inlaid with an intricate herringbone pattern, it would not have been out of place in a high-end furniture store.
you could imagine coming down a
Mannequins formed a line on either side, each one hung with a design
imagine - including charcoal,
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runway towards you - the materials sewn, woven, laced, and draped with obvious skill. Along the walls hung works in just about any medium you could multimedia, paint and photography.
