2018 Creative Generation Art Now Publication

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© Galleries, Townsville City Council and the authors 2018

Exhibition organised by GALLERIES

Jonathan McBurnie Creative Director

Lucy Belle Tesoriero Curatorial Assistant

Claire Griffiths Senior Education and Programs Officer

Sarah Reddington Education and Programs Officer

Nicole Richardson Education and Programs Assistant

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Erwin Cruz Senior Exhibitions Officer

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29 September – 28 October 2018

Gallery acknowledgements

Galleries would like to acknowledge the generous support and assistance of Townsville City Council in realising this exhibition.

Thank you to all participating schools, teachers and student artists:

• All Souls St Gabriel's School

• Heatley Secondary College

• Home Hill State High School

• Kirwan State High School

• Pimlico State High School

• Ryan Catholic College

• St Margaret Mary's College

• St Patrick's College Townsville

• Townsville State High School

• William Ross State High School

Cover image credit: Ella HARRISON

Year 11, St Margaret Mary's College

Zebra Land [detail] 2018

Mixed media on paper

ARTNOW is an exhibition of works by senior students from the North Queensland region; delivered as part of Galleries' Creative Classrooms Program. This annual exhibition is the result of ongoing collaboration between Galleries and Secondary Schools across the North.

The exhibition is open to all students who are currently studying any creative arts subjects in Year 11 and 12. Students are given no restrictions on subject matter or mediums and the exhibition is inclusive of all art forms.

Participating students in the exhibition experience and employ some of the professional practices required in the art world. This includes areas like submitting work for an exhibition, preparing artwork for display and communicating the concepts and processes behind their work to a public audience.

ARTNOW recognises the creativity and diverse talents of young and emerging artists within our community. This year’s exhibition is no exception with 44 student works from 10 secondary schools on display. Galleries is proud to support and showcase the work of our latest creative generation.

Tahlia Bellamy

Year 12, All Souls St Gabriels School

Busted Cans 2018

Wearable art

For my wearable art piece I was inspired by the rubbish that is found in the aftermath of a music festival. After researching music festival rubbish, I found that drink cans were the most disposed of. I wanted to create a wearable art piece that not only showed how cans are being disposed of, but also transform the cans into a piece of clothing that could be worn at a music festival. I believe turning the cans into a wearable art piece highlights how individuals could dispose or re-use drinking cans in a more thoughtful or conscious way.

Joel Braiding

Year 12, Pimlico State High School

The Eye of the Beholder 2018

Ceramics finished with acrylic

The Eye of the Beholder explores the focus of ‘perceptions’ within a personal context. The sculpture visually conveys a façade of self-perception. It implies an importance of greater awareness around reaching goals and achievements for a gratifying life, and that one’s future potentials and possibilities may be blinded by the past. Instead, a tunnel vision of deceptions are led onwards from isolation, alluded within unfulfilled expectations. As the drips cascade downwards onto the subject’s facial features, they eventually begin to consume its consciousness, thus concealing the vision of one’s perception.

Billie Copeland

Year 12, All Souls St Gabriels School

Plastic Beach 2018

Wearable art

I created a wearable art piece inspired by the pollution of our beaches. I used an array of materials to convey to the audience how rubbish is continually disposed of on Australian beaches and the effect it is having on our environment. On the blue bra, I have used shells and brightly coloured crepe paper to convey the colours and natural materials you would find at the beach. In amongst the crepe paper and shells, I have included candy wrappers to show how plastic is also becoming more present.

Tamika Crank

Year 12, Home Hill State High School

Self Portrait 2018

Watercolour, photocopy

Finding my sense of place is difficult as I change in different places and locations depending on who's there and what's happening. I am changing and reacting differently; there are a hundred versions of me.

Grace Croft

Year 12, Townsville State High School

A modern classic 2018

Mixed media painting

Young people often struggle to interpret the world around them and find their place. I looked back to the genius of Da Vinci as inspiration for my modern woman. Surrounded by the trappings of the contemporary world my modern woman is serene, composed and looking to the future. The figure engages the audience with confidence and empathy.

Morgan Cupitt

Year 12, William Ross State High School

Stepping Through Time 2018

Mixed media

Stepping Through Time is a work that uses multimedia to resonate with my childhood journey across Australia. The use of the boots and footprints within the work represents my physical journey with the defence force while the collage of photos and painted monuments symbolises new memories.

Louisa Daley

Year 12, Home Hill State High School

See me 2018

Texture paste, ink, acrylic

People don't see what is real sometimes. With the influence of popular culture, media and peer pressure, body image is affected greatly. This work represents those images, both real and imagined weight issues and highlights that what is real is the colour on the inside.

Taylor Davies

Year 12, St Patrick’s College Townsville

Mother Nature 2018

Wearable art

This dress represents Mother Nature, showcasing her power for good and destructive forces. The materials used include found flowers, a crinoline hoop armature and lights to suggest an ethereal quality.

Rosalili Ford

Year 11, St Patrick’s College Townsville

Hermes 2018

Wearable art, recycled materials

My wearable art headpiece, Hermes, is created from upcycled materials including foam scraps and pieces of old hats. The name Hermes is a reference to the Greek messenger God who is often portrayed as the patron of roads and travellers. Hermes is one of the many ancient Gods in Roman, Greek and Norse myths who has been depicted wearing a winged helmet, including Mercury, Roma, and other Norse Gods and heroes. Hermes, however, is one of the more well-known and recognised of these mythological figures. The winged helmet has been portrayed as a symbol of speed and has been used in various modern comic book hero designs, including the popular 'Flash' comic series. Through my wearable art piece, I wanted to display my own interpretation of the symbolic winged helmet used in ancient mythology and popular culture.

Hannah Fraser

Year 12, All Souls St Gabriels School

The Artist's Experience [detail] 2018

Digital images, recycled fibre, found objects

The Artist's Experience is the experience of the artist, their reasoning for the choice of their artwork. This is communicated through the time, place and space as well as the context of the artwork. This artwork explores the artist’s experience of dreams that are personal to me and also have a geographical context. Through the materials of Photoshopped images, string, wire, wool and pipe cleaners; time, place and space; dreams are communicated. The site of the artwork itself being in a store room with junk and forgotten materials adds meaning to the artwork. By emphasising the lack of attention and the thrown away into our memories that we often do with our dreams. In doing so, adding meaning to the space and place of dreams. Every single image represents a single dream. Words are hung over certain images to create more emotion and understanding of the place and space that the dream took place in. The overall artwork explores the time, place and space of all dreams, images of polar opposites are used to do so. The string and pipe cleaners are intertwined to demonstrate the neurons and the connectedness that dreams have with each other. The string hanging from the pipe that represents a connection to the rest of the brain, represents the time the dream took place, the longer the string the longer the dream took in the mental space.

Dianne Fulford

Year 12, All Souls St Gabriels School

Plastic Plates 2018

Wearable art

I was inspired by the use of paper plates for my wearable art. I used many paper plates and cut them into hundreds of pieces to glue onto a bodice. I arranged them in different patterns and directions to make my outfit look more interesting. To contrast against the paper plates, I used purple plastic garbage bags. This made the dress have a contrast in colour and textures.

Cheyarna Gesu

Year 12, Home Hill State High School

Seasons 2018

Glass, acrylic, sand

The wine glasses remind me of celebrations and fun and togetherness. Each season offers something different to celebrate. I wanted to remind myself of the celebrations of the world.

Haylee Hancock

Year 12, Townsville State High School

Heart Break 2018

Painting

Heartbreak can be a defining event in a young person's life. The emotional impact on both people is a fragile balance of who hurt who and their ability or inability to move on. My painting shows the moment your heart breaks; trust is lost and love diminished.

Ella Harrison

Year 11, St Margaret Mary's College

Zebra Land 2018

Mixed media on paper

Zebra Land is a mixed media artwork that explores the concept of objects in space. The three dimensional floating shapes and figures play with zebra and cross walk imagery to challenge our notion of space, time and gravity.

Amelia Hawke

Year 11, St Margaret Mary's College

Treasure Chest 2018

Wearable art

Treasure Chest, a play on the words to compare the treasure that is the reef on the chest of my design. The design showcases the importance of preserving our national treasure, which is the Great Barrier Reef. It is an important issue that is being ignored and I would like to do my part to raise awareness and showcase its beauty and potential.

Tayah Hopkins

Year 12, All Souls St Gabriels School

Time Place Space [detail] 2018

Mirrors, wire, acetate, pen

This three piece series explores time, place and space through constructing drawings of the same woman over different time periods. She changes with the developing religions, beliefs and expectations of women in the same place, with a constantly changing environment, the environment being the space, thus associating with time, place and space. The artist experience links strongly into this body of work as the space around us is ever changing, with beliefs and expectations of society, gender and place that are always wavering. Time, place and space have always been major contributing factors in how we present ourselves as women and despite our advances in freedom, we still remain victims of the expectations of time, place and space.

John Horca

Year 12, Heatley Secondary School

Mother Pollution 2018

Acrylic on Canvas

The world we live in today is not the same anymore. Our earth, our land and our home is leading to a very slow but destructive path; a path that we have created for our Mother Nature. We are not only destroying native life but we are approaching the point of no return. The less we do the more polluted our home becomes. Mother Pollution depicts the results of carbon pollution as it becomes the air we breathe, litter becomes the soil for the roots, plants and trees to bind to and the rubbish bags become a part of the coral and sea. This is the result of our treatment towards our earth, our land and our home.

Breanna Jaworski

Year 11, Pimlico State High School

Juste Moi 2018

Mixed media on canvas

Black ink, charcoal and white conté crayon showcase the stunning simplicity of black and white, while their distinctive finishes harmoniously create a unified, yet unique, composition. The black ink splatters in the background create an intriguing, extemporaneous pattern. This artwork on canvas includes diverse animals, symbolically revealing my love for all creatures, to the point of influencing my future aspirations - to become a veterinary nurse. Juste Moi literally translates to ‘just me’, and this artwork expresses my dreams and embodies who I am.

Bethany Little

Year 11, Ryan Catholic College

Forces of Nature [detail] 2018

Mixed media on paper

The work captures the elements of fire, earth, wind and water and is indicative of the fragility of nature and yet the strength of nature to overcome destructive forces as well as the certainty of nature to create life through the destructive nature of the decaying process.

Mai Luarca

Year 11, Pimlico State High School

Tropical Homeland 2018

Acrylic on canvas

This self-portrait painting represents many aspects of my homeland of the Philippines. Tribal clothing shows the culture, while the plants represent the country itself with its famous tourist spots ranging from heritage towns to rainforests and beaches. The girl in the middle is wearing tribal clothing mostly worn during traditional dances and is staring directly at the viewer surrounded by many plants. The colour scheme is of bold harmonious colours to recreate the thriving country.

Jasmine Mahony

Year 11, Pimlico State High School

Talk to Me in the Language of Flowers 2018

Digital print on canvas

Talk to Me in the Language of Flowers was created through the use of digital mediums in the program Krita. It represents the struggles to verbally express emotions to other people, as such feelings often seem too intense or dramatic to be put into words, or too perplexing to be properly understood by others or oneself. This in turn limits one’s words to silence, and without the ability of expression itself the imagination of the beholder and reality seem to border on a thinner line initiating the language of flowers to be the rawest form of expression.

Saskia Matheson

Year 11, St Margaret Mary's College

Atlantean [detail] 2018

Wearable artwork

Atlantean is a wearable art piece that responds to the themes of ocean environments and how pollution and plastics are slowly covering waters and impacting the ecosystems. It uses cardboard, copper wire, fabrics and sushi fish to create a wearable piece of art.

Alex McCarthy

Shattered 2018

Mixed media

Shattered revolves around the topic of women in the workforce and the protests that helped women today obtain a more equal standing. This work is personal, including a seemingly out of place photograph of my mother among the other elements. I hope to give light to the journey of women's rights and how, because of past struggles, the women I admire have a chance in society.

Transition 2018

This artwork reflects my past emotional state as I transitioned from childhood to adolescence. The lamb doll, Lamby, is a cherished toy and represents childhood innocence. Similarly, the red glasses (rose-tinted glasses) symbolise seeing the world through the haze of childhood naivety. Thus, as the glasses are being taken off, this gesture implies finally seeing the world for what it is.

Year 12, William Ross State High School

Erin McConnell

Year 11, Pimlico State High School

Acrylic on canvas

Leonard Najarro

Year 12, Kirwan State High School

Express: D 2018

Acrylic paint and graphite on paper

I invite my viewer to look in and I wanted to show people what I have been through. I began painting my artwork with my intention already in my mind. I wanted to show my depression. I decided my composition and thought about how lines and colours could be relatable and then I just let everything, from the paint to the feelings, flow. My images are the glimpses of what I have been through since I came to Australia. From being lonely and depressed, to moving into the happy person that I am today.

Louisse Pammit

Year 11, Ryan Catholic College

Growth and Decay 2018

Clay sculpture

The sculpture shows the stages of being born, growing and inevitably dying. It shows how humans grow and how they live their life until they become old and slowly decay.

Jessica Parlon

Year 11, St Margaret Mary's College

Flowering Femininity 2018

My piece is about the exploration of women. My concertina book will take the perceived notions of women in the media and contort them to become something more than an object.

Dane Reid

Year 12, Pimlico State High School

Pressured 2018

Pressured is an overwhelming portrayal of the emotional pressures of worry, wonder and confusion, visually communicated through acrylic on canvas. The harsh reality of a lack of occupations one faces after graduation in a regional city can be strenuous, and causing a lifelessness nature of exhaustion. Pressured is communicated through a socio-cultural context with a surrealism style reflecting the abstract and unfamiliar sites of the ‘bigger picture’ after secondary education. The compelling imagery of a maze focuses primarily on opportunities with the statue weighted by worry being the embodiment of students awaiting graduation, true identity discovery, and the following occupation.

Pencil on paper

Acrylic on canvas

Chloe Reyne

Year 12, William Ross State High School

Memorable View 2018 Mixed media

Inspired by the works of Zhang Huan and George Gittoes, this piece provides a representation of my travels across Australia. The images used represent the iconic landmarks I have seen, and the memorable views that I have witnessed. The choice of media alludes to the fading memories that linger on after the travels have been and gone.

Anna Ta

Year 12, Heatley Secondary College

Breaking Point 2018 Watercolour on Paper

Breaking Point is the depiction of people’s complicated emotions, instead of expressing how they feel, they stay silent for many reasons. It could be because of anxiety, fear or anything that can justify their distancing and because of that, they reach to their breaking point. Breaking Point is represented through a girl who seems flawless; her break down shown through the cracks all over her body and face. She asks anyone who notices to be silent through a gesture about the situation whilst she drowns in the empty dark blue space.

Natalie Teece

Year 12, Annandale Christian College

A

product of each other 2018

Charcoal

This self-portrait portrays the ability of others to influence one’s identity - from family members, and friends to the person you walked past on the street. The hands represent those people. Some are shown pulling and grabbing. Others, encouraging and steadying as they mould my identity. Different people can have different impressions on you, influencing you in different ways, positive or negative. Be wary about how you might be moulding the people around you and who might be moulding you!

Amy Tomlinson

Year 12, Ayr State High School

Self Identity - Li Cunxin 2018

Mixed media and collage

The true identity of people is often overshadowed by past experiences. This work of Li Cunxin displays his strength of purpose and identifies with his cultural heritage. His solo career in dance particularly ballet grew from his determination and passion which enabled him to shape his existence and be true to his own identity and true to those he could inspire.

Marie Walker

Year 12, St Margaret Mary's College

Downfall 2018

Paper collage on board

Downfall, as a series, tells the story of humanity’s path of self-destruction, as demonstrated through continued historic events. Time and time again, the human race has shown its downfall through the existence of war, betrayal, murder and oppression. The printed images have been composed to provide an aesthetic and meaningful collage of the effects these events have on humanity. Shape and space were important elements of design in my work, as they help convey the relationship between the 'cause' and 'effect' of each event on the downfall of the human race.

Eboni Webb

Year 12, Home Hill State High School

Because of her I can 2018

Block ink, wood, house paint

There is so much that modern day women can do due to the women before them. I wanted to explore the achievements of women from the past and bring them into the foreground.

Karina Wilson

College

Going Back to my Roots 2018

My work, Going Back to my Roots, portrays how an individual’s spiritual identity is evidence of where we have come from; our roots. I am fascinated with the idea that all living organisms are created from stardust matter, and I wished to incorporate this into my artwork. Going on a search for our identity enables us to discover who we are and why we exist. Thus, becoming aware of our past and our roots.

The piece Rose Coloured is a surreal, altered reality work. The oil painting was originally inspired by the details of old-style Victorian dresses, and the idea of blooming into a new world made of the imagination of sole inhabitant. The woman features a pale diadem to represent her ruling authority but in return for her power fine brambles that come out of the details of her dresses midsection have pricked her finger and drew blood, in similar style to the fairytale of sleeping beauty. The woman is coming out of a flower to represent her re-birth and to show the difference between the real world and her fantasy world full of roses.

Year 12, St Margaret Mary's

Acrylic on canvas

Melanie Youman

Year 12, Heatley Secondary College

Rose Coloured 2018

Oil on canvas board

North Queensland regional exhibition 2018

Flip BOOK over for

within a socio-cultural context. The message that is visually communicated is the thought that it is our experiences throughout our lives that alter the way we perceive the world around us. As you move from left to right the people have less experience and memories, and as a result the house they see is less clouded by embellishments. The overall purpose of this artwork is to provoke thought on how age affects perception and to aid peoples’ understanding of each other.

This artwork titled Age and Decay explores the focus of ‘sites of perception and change’

Acrylic on canvas

Age and Decay [detail] 2018

Year 12, Pimlico State High School

SARAH WRIGHT

In the centre is our future, the threat of nuclear war looming over an ignorant world. The overall message of the artwork cautions the viewer to reassess the true nature of war and urges them to advocate for peace.

This artwork, titled The Pathway to World War III, explores the focus of Sites of War within historical and socio-cultural contexts. The wooden graves amongst the poppies symbolise the birth of the ANZACS and with it the glorification of war. In contrast, the pain and wide scale suffering of World War II is encapsulated in the trenches and barbed wire.

Mixed media on board

The Pathway to World War III [detail] 2018

Year 12, Pimlico State High School

ANNABEL WRIGHT

I wanted to make a war scene that challenges stereotypes of gender and what a war zone looks like. The images were also especially poignant to me as my father has had first hand experience in desert war zones in his job and I wanted to capture a sense of that environment.

The concept for this body of work was gender and this work focusses on the idea that we place different jobs, roles and stereotypes on each gender. Often this involves an idea of 'one for all' such as the colours pink and blue.

Photographic

Gender Wars 2018

Townsville

Year 12, St Patrick's College

MONIQUE WARDE

created in response to the given task which was to create wearable art inspired by the forest, ocean and other environments. Three pieces inspired by nature were designed and the final design was chosen as it best represents what nature means to me. The work represents the simplicity and beauty that is found in nature.

A Scene in Nature is a design that was

Mixed media

A Scene In Nature 2018

Year 11, St Margaret Mary's College

TATENDA TAPOTA

My name is Olivia Stocker and I am currently studying as a year 11 student at St Margaret Mary's College. School has taught me many techniques, helping me to create the best art piece and helping me to show the theme of forest in the best way. The main story behind my art piece is to create the idea of a tree.

Mixed media

Forest Creature 2018

Year 11, St Margaret Mary's College

OLIVIA STOCKER

I have interpreted the concept of Transitions in the Physical Environment to take a subject and locate it in a digitally altered world of my own imagination. I’ve incorporated face painted patterns, inspired by my own and other traditional cultural pattern making, and transformed people’s faces and changed their physical appearance. I then took photographs of the transformed people, and relocated them from their normal everyday life into an invented landscape of acrylic and watercolor painting and collage to create a patterned universe. The combination of these different aspects has led me to produce this fantastic digital world.

Facepainting, photography, watercolour, acrylic painting and collage layered and edited in Photoshop to create digital artworks

My Imagined World 2018

Year 12, Blackheath and Thornburgh College

should be noted that feminism speaks for all genders. I have chosen to highlight the well-known stereotype ‘men don’t cry’, hoping to invoke an understanding and acceptance of all emotions in all genders.

representative of the constraints placed on men in this ever changing world and how societal expectations implore men to bottle up their emotions; to not cry. I believe that this is a very important topic as it

My inspiration for this watercolour painting was generated from my study of feminism and the concept of masculinity and femininity. It is

Watercolour, gouache and charcoal on paper

Men Do Not Cry 2018

Year 12, Townsville Grammar School

MAKENNA SHORT

I’ve never been a big fan of putting artist’s statements along with my work. I like to think my work can just be enjoyed, that people can connect to it without a paragraph about how it means something special. My picture is of my brother, painted from a photo I took after a day at the beach. I painted it because I wanted to. I feel like trying to say anything more about it will remove some of the ambiguity, the connection you can get from it by trying to figure out the person within it for yourself.

Oil paint on canvas

Brother 2018

Year 12, Townsville Grammar School

MATILDA (TILLY-BELLE) ROBINSON

This short film explores ‘childhood imagination and aspiration’ and the importance of nurturing children’s dreams. Firstly, a young boy full of wonder, is juxtaposed by his grown adult self who is seen despondent and unhappy. Next, the boy is shown in his adolescent years, still aspiring to be an astronaut, yet also beginning to have doubts. The climax features the boy having a choice to give in to his doubts, or continue to dream about bigger and better things. The visuals within this artwork are supported with a voice over narrative, and an original soundtrack composed by Ross Bugden.

Short film

Young Explorer 2018

Year 12, Pimlico State High School

BROOKE RANKIN

A facade is a deceptive outward appearance, that corrupts the reality of objects. Every day, individuals put on a mask to hide the undeniable feelings encased inside of us. This piece resembles the emotions running beneath the surface which include the pressures of reality, a constant battle to perfection as well as the laughter of our childhood selves that has been lost. However, the people surrounding us are only able to see the brave face we put on. This cover up keeps reality inside of us all, unless one chooses to look closer.

Acrylic paint

Facade 2018

Year 12, The Cathedral School of St Anne and St James

LAURA PASTEGA

deepen, our hair silvers and our skin turns to leather. Much like us, the objects we own do the same. My mother spent most of her life collecting old styled furniture. Many were often lacking in the ability to function due to age and damage. The majority of their time with my family was served in storage with promises of being restored to their former glory. The structure of this artwork foregrounds both the positive and negative space created by the strategic placement of individual items and their value.

As humans, our appearance often reflects our age. Our wrinkles

Furniture, crockery, books, board games, clothing, sporting equipment, string

Through the looking glass 2018

Year 12, All Souls St Gabriels School

JOSIE MCKELLAR

This painting is a representation of the American Indian people, focusing on the resilience and bravery each tribe showed. Tribes had to battle upon European arrival - resulting in numerous deaths. The focal point is the masculine headpiece with symbols intertwined, creating symbolic meanings. It is faceless because of the loss of identity females in particular underwent. The rose was to represent beauty and femininity amongst the masculinity while the moon and stars represent new beginnings, turning dreams into reality and importance. The butterfly was placed to show the resilience all members of the tribe faced.

Mixed media on canvas

The Plight 2018

Year 11, Southern Cross Catholic College

CHLOE MCGUIRE

Four is a series of prints that I made examining the surface of golf balls. Through these images I wanted to explore gender, and gender stereotypes. I myself am a keen golfer, but there is still some strong gender association with some sports and in particular the idea that 'men' play golf. The golf balls themselves are quite decorative and became like mini landscapes or worlds. I wanted to explore the notion of femininity by using the imagery of golf balls to create pattern and suggest a decorative element.

Four 2018 Collagraphic prints

Year 12, St Patrick's College Townsville

STEPHANIE MCDOUGALL

The focus of my artwork captures the negative side of how time has and will affect technology. The linear placement of my photographs suggests the deterioration and decay of society over time. Generations now and upcoming are wholly integrated with technology. Destruction of Ourselves will remind the audience just how powerful our devices are and how easy it is to lose touch with the real world.

Digitally enhanced image, LED, plastic flowers, computer keys, plastic pipe, pixels

2018

Destruction of Ourselves

Year 12, All Souls St Gabriels School

share and experience emojis across social media, always looking down into the void.

Void reflects existence and society's use of social media as a way of identifying human emotion, through a dismal urban setting. The hard lines of the buildings, along with the dull colours, patterns and repetition of the figures, all contribute to the lifeless setting. The painting is a statement about how sterile society has become. The popularity of apps and social media has changed the identity of society, turning people into detached identities, removed from one another, even though they share the same physical space. Instead, they

Acrylic on canvas

Void 2018

Year 12, St Margaret Mary's College

MONNIQUE LAMB

Torres Strait design. Each element of the dress was hand printed and painted. My dress shows two cultures that conflicted, however now the Torres Strait design and flora and fauna is taking over. This represents us taking our culture back.

My piece represents fashion from the 1800's and incorporates

Lino printed fabric, crinoline hoop, shell headpiece

Cross Cultures 2018

Year 12, St Patrick's College Townsville

EMMA KRIS

Without a vine, there can be no cocoon. Without a cocoon, there can be no butterfly. The metaphor of life here is a narrative about personal growth. Through this artwork, I am crystallising an exploration of my time from a young baby to an ‘almost’ school leaver in the form of a three-stage creation. The areas all flow together from the canvas to the butterfly to reveal, insightfully, that all expectations are good and that despite any struggle that I may believe I have had this year, the future is looking wonderful.

Insightful Reflections 2018

Year 12, Kirwan State High School

STELLA HERING

Roses as people do every day, trying to conceal the true picture that lies beneath.

Viewers see the perfectly groomed side of Stop And Smell The

crystallisation of your own and others’ thoughts may seem unintentionally harmless on the surface, but is a torturous, suffocating tension within, just like a rose bed. This piece is a focus on my personal experiences, however the concept can be subjective according to your experiences. The thoughts of others influences us greatly and slowly builds tension, awaiting eruption.

As an aspiring artist, my artwork is my depiction of how the

Oil, ink and watercolour

Stop And Smell The Roses 2018

Year 12, Kirwan State High School

LIBBY HAWKEN

It's a representation of repression, whether it be creative or emotional or any other kind, it's been made intentionally ambiguous so the observer can have their own ideas about how it relates to them. Simply, everyone represses something and it's always trying to re-emerge. The woman in the painting is represented in three parts - Mind, Body and Soul, indictated by her disfigured 'ocean swell' head, her figure; body and skeleton, and the florals symbolizing her 'repressions', as well as three brush strokes for each part, painted across from her. The closer you look, the more you see.

Acrylic and metallic paints, fake florals on canvas

Inside Outside 2018

Year 12, The Cathedral School of St Anne and St James

PIPPA HAUPT

I was able to demonstrate that the landscapes will change, and each persons’ perception will be different. People can change how they appear or how they are viewed, but we can’t change our skin. We cannot change who or what we are.

By layering my images, I created the effect of skin. I wanted to portray my home in a way that illustrates while it will not always be permanent, the images conveyed in my artwork and my mind have no expiration date. Through the use of both the layers of colour, images, along with alternating the paper used,

Acetate, vellum, wax, crackle medium, clear varnish, ink, oil, shellac, natural objects and fibre

Skinriched and HomeFleshed [detail] 2018

Year 12, All Souls St Gabriels School

ZOE GODFREY

Metaphorically, it’s about her realising the truth of who she wants her identity to be. It is shattering from the insideout from the strain and pressure of society. People must reconsider the possibility of being another culture because it’s no different to the successful movements of gender and sexuality.

wants to be another culture than her own, but is shunned by societal expectations to uphold and respect your own background. Physically, the girl is being consumed by a crystallisation that reveals herself as another culture beneath.

Shattered Cultures embodies the insight into a girl who

Shattered Cultures 2018 Oil, watercolour, ink, shattered glass, photo transfer

Year 12, Kirwan State High School

CRYSTAL FRANKLIN

The figure chosen was designed to be fairly delicate, sinking in the water as an allegory for a feeling of loneliness. The water is symbolic of life and fate and their tendency to pull us around in unexpected directions, hold us up or sometimes let us sink. At the top of the canvas, the scene seems to be melting, which was initially accidental, but I liked it so it stayed. Its meaning later developed to represent the feeling of being lost, watching things dissolve around you.

Acrylic paint

Transient 2018

Year 12, The Cathedral School of St Anne and St James

collage representing human’s relationship with technology, including social media. My piece incorporates both wearable art and digital technology to make a statement about technology and nature.

In todays society everything is generated with the use of technology and this has become a huge part of an individual identity, with a wide range of people incorporating it in daily life routines. Techno Babe is a digital

Techno Babe 2018 Digital print

Year 12, William Ross State High School

CAITLIN DOBBIE

The Beholder is a sculpture designed to bring positive attention to the roleplaying game ‘Dungeons and Dragons’. The game is heavily ridiculed and for some, this results in a need to hide the hobby. The head is coated in character sheets and the back transforms into a D20, a common dice used within the game. Inside of the head is a mythical world consisting of a dragon, waterfalls and dwarven temple. Within the temple is a small heart-shaped artefact which is lit up from within. This artefact represents the unnoticed need of acceptance for this form of escapism.

The Beholder 2018 Mixed media

Year 12, Pimlico State High School

KARLA DESTÉFANI

Memory Lane, A response to the concept of Youth from a personal frame. I am what defines youth to me, a time of freedom with safety rails. My work suggests naive imagination without a care in the world. It’s about the years I’ve already lived. Seven lanterns illuminate silhouettes of the memories I hold in my heart that have influenced who I am today. The smaller lanterns are moments, and the bigger ones are people or situations. These are placed on spaced plinths in a darkened area to allow the viewer to walk down memory lane with me.

Ceramics, stencil paper, 200gsm black cartridge, freestanding

Memory Lane 2018

Year 12, Ingham State High School

CHLOE DAY

This painting is a representation of the Spanish culture, and focuses on the famous Spanish Dance, Flamenco. Dancers use different types of emotional themes such as, romance and comfort to choreograph their dancers to music. After further research into the Spanish background, it shows how dancers originally used no music and only clapped their hands to the beat. The focal point of the painting is the red dress, the vibrant colour of red exhibits the qualities of the passion in which the dancers used to hypnotize the audience.

Mixed media on canvas

Spanish Dancer 2018

Year 11, Southern Cross Catholic College

DANIELLE CLOWES

in history. The wax corset shields images of distorted ribs, the damaged spine and organs as they are crushed from the pressure of the boned garment. I wanted the sculpture to be discreet in this representation, with the damage only appearing strongest as light projects through the form.

This piece is representative of the distortion and disfigurement caused to women's bodies during the 1800's and other periods

Wax and paper sculpture

Reality of the Corset 2018

Year 11, St Patrick's College Townsville

LAUREN CLARKE

Before Adam and Eve, there was Adam and Lilith. Lilith was to be a submissive woman for Adam, but she was banished and rejected by God after it was found that she was stronger and more intelligent than Adam and that she would not obey the commands of Adam. After Lilith was banished she was cursed with infertility and cast out as a demon, and in her own vengeance took to killing children. The artwork signifies the submissive Lilith reaching out to embrace what is considered ‘demon' and ‘evil’ Lilith. It is very Ying Yang. Good verses evil.

Ink, charcoal and pastel on canvas

Lilith 2018

Year 11, Southern Cross Catholic College

My artworks aims to explore my personal experience and insight into the variety of mental disorders that coexists within many people. This theme overall expresses my own perspective on the mental disorders of OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), Anxiety, and Bipolar disorder to allow the insight of the audience into my very own mind. This is to express the concerns that these are the things that control us in our everyday lives and these conditions may not be obvious but they are still very much still there, right beneath the surface.

Acrylic on board

(The Absence, The Fear, The Void) 2018

Mental Capacity

Year 12, Kirwan State High School

ZACK BLAD

I find the human face to be a meaningful symbol of existence - particularly the eye, the supposed “window to the soul". It is my hope that the audience will contemplate their own existence; what they choose to reveal to others; as well as their own perspectives.

Over the centuries artists have poured their hearts and souls into their works. Very rarely, however, do we get to see the experiences that influence these works and the efforts that go into creating them. My work explores the artist experience, specifically in relation to the theme space as a term describing existence.

Acrylic paint, cotton duck canvas

How much we see 2018

Year 12, All Souls St Gabriels School

Awards in Visual Art North Queensland regional exhibition 2018.

This year 11 schools have entered artworks by 30 students that form the exhibition in Pinnacles Gallery. This publication features the artworks of the talented young artists who have entered the Creative Generation Excellence

Now in its th28 year, the program has helped raise community awareness of the degree of sophistication in concepts, diversity of technical competence, and the high standard of visual art education in Queensland secondary schools.

and promotes excellence in senior visual art education throughout state and non-state schools in Queensland.

The Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art recognises

Introduction

• William Ross State High School

• Townsville Grammar School

• The Cathedral School of St Anne and St James

• St Patrick's College Townsville

• St Margaret Mary's College

• Southern Cross Catholic College

• Pimlico State High School

• Kirwan State High School

• Ingham State High School

• Blackheath and Thornburgh College

• All Souls St Gabriel's School

Generation Excellence in Visual Art. Thank you also to all participating schools, teachers and student artists:

A special thank you to Michael Pope, Regional Coordinator for Creative

The Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art would like to thank Program Partner QSuper for their support and for supplying the Regional Encouragement Award prize.

Galleries would like to acknowledge the generous support and assistance of the Department of Education, Training and Employment, Queensland Government, QSuper, and Townsville City Council.

Acknowledgements

Gallery

29 September – 28 October 2018

Pinnacles Gallery

North Queensland regional exhibition 2018

Published on the occasion of the exhibition

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