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

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.

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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