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Front cover artwork: Carmen Holmes/Centenary Heights State High School/Silhouettes 2009 (detail)/Digital photograph
Message from the Minister<br />
2010 Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual <strong>Art</strong> and Design<br />
<strong>Art</strong>ists can communicate powerful messages often without saying a word, transforming ideas into images that can touch,<br />
provoke and inspire.<br />
The 40 talented students chosen for the 2010 Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual <strong>Art</strong> and Design deliver such an<br />
experience. Through art forms including drawing, digital media, photography and painting they explore their deepest thoughts.<br />
The pieces were chosen from more than 500 entries from state and non-state school students across <strong>Queensland</strong> and explore<br />
issues and complex themes that invite viewers to contemplate culture, history and the world around them.<br />
The student artists benefited from the five-day residential workshop they attended in Brisbane in September/October 2009<br />
with professional artists, and the <strong>touring</strong> <strong>exhibition</strong> across the State offers exposure and experience.<br />
The Department of Education and Training welcomes the support of the <strong>Queensland</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Gallery</strong>, <strong>Queensland</strong> Museum and<br />
<strong>Gallery</strong> Services <strong>Queensland</strong> in bringing the award-winner work to a wider audience.<br />
The awards, which began in 1990, have undergone a name change but continue their purpose of recognising creative<br />
young people while encouraging them to further develop their talents.<br />
Please enjoy this snapshot of <strong>Queensland</strong>’s next creative generation whose talents promise great potential<br />
for our future.<br />
Geoff Wilson MP<br />
Minister for Education and Training
Jaimee Abbay 6<br />
Sophie Farmer 11<br />
Allison Beech 6<br />
Ashleigh Firmin 11<br />
Philippa Cary 7<br />
George Gabey 12<br />
Rachel Choi 7<br />
Mirika Guffin 12<br />
Laura Collins 8<br />
Melany Hayes 13<br />
Ella Cottle 8<br />
Neil Hiscocks 13<br />
Nicola Curro 9<br />
Carmen Holmes 14<br />
Jenna Daley 9<br />
Bridget Hooper 14<br />
Brayden Doig 10<br />
Ruby Hughes 15<br />
Claire Dunne 10<br />
Sarah Hylton 15
Dylan Janssen 16<br />
Laura Moffat 21<br />
Yui Kimura 16<br />
Kirstin Payne 21<br />
Samantha Knight 17<br />
Sarah Poulgrain 22<br />
Brighde Lewis 17<br />
Eloise Soper-Smith 22<br />
Megan Mabin 18<br />
Alanah Toleman 23<br />
Natalie Maher 18<br />
Stephanie Tomoana 23<br />
Romany Maunder 19<br />
Nicholas Warfield 24<br />
Ashleigh McInnes 19<br />
Hannah Whiteley 24<br />
Susan McTaggart 20<br />
Bernadine Yong 25<br />
Chiho Miyagi 20<br />
Chris Yung 25
Jaimee<br />
Abbay<br />
Gladstone State High School<br />
Street Lights – Digital print on paper<br />
Street Lights portrays my street in a way it is rarely<br />
seen – at night. It depicts it as creepy, scary, eerie and<br />
never-ending. As soon as the street lights are turned on,<br />
it transforms into an almost supernatural world. The five<br />
digitally enhanced photographs portray five different<br />
views of the street (detail shown here).<br />
Allison<br />
Beech<br />
Lourdes Hill College, Brisbane<br />
Are not Titles just another way to condense purity<br />
– Installation of screen-prints on paper<br />
Are not Titles just another way to condense purity into meaningless,<br />
digestible fodder for the masses? Life within a capitalist economy is morally<br />
degrading, suffocates the spirit and feels like a denial of basic liberties.<br />
This dystopia snuck up on humanity with promises of happiness, only<br />
to suppress all possibility of equality and justice. Our economic system<br />
is hailed as the sacred cow of a progressive society and rationalism has<br />
obliterated any faith in the conscience of humanity.<br />
6
Philippa<br />
Cary<br />
Whitsunday Anglican School, Mackay<br />
Family Ties – Framed installation of sticks and mixed media<br />
Family Ties is a work that deals with the connection of significant dates<br />
and events using photographic media, organic forms and text. It is about<br />
the connections between me and my family, and the long journey we have<br />
endured together, being forced to leave our homeland of Zimbabwe. Like<br />
the blueprints of a home, the small sticks bound together symbolise the<br />
map of my journey. The tags portray each person in my family uniquely, and<br />
represent how each has helped me progress through this journey in their<br />
own way.<br />
Rachel<br />
Choi<br />
Somerville House, Brisbane<br />
Of Cloudy Climes and Starless Skies<br />
– Installation of photos, umbrella and feathers<br />
I find myself increasingly in awe of the sky<br />
— it is unlike any other place. It is ethereal and ephemeral;<br />
it is beautiful, serene, cheerful and fierce. It is all these<br />
things, yet we are never able to actively engage with the<br />
sky. The hand-stitched umbrella expresses the barrier of<br />
intangibility as it travels a journey of emancipation through<br />
the sky — from sunrise to sunset, allowing us to dream.<br />
Through a combination of hand-stitching and hot glue on<br />
actual feathers, I used Photoshop to place my umbrella<br />
image into shots of the sky at different times of the day.<br />
7
Laura<br />
Collins<br />
Springwood State High School, Brisbane<br />
Colourless Non-existence – Mixed media<br />
The chameleon blends into his new backgrounds, morphing from once vivid greens to murky<br />
monochromes. He symbolises endemic organisms that are being displaced to ongoing<br />
evolving and transformed environments. He is seen as invisible, his ability to camouflage<br />
disappearing as a result of the implications of a burgeoning human race. The sculpture<br />
represents a generic building showing the grimy side of humanity, with metal trees sprouting<br />
menacingly from its top. Our environment is made up of much unwanted and disposable<br />
matter. There is a true danger, in the future, of uniqueness and beauty being transformed<br />
into colourless non-existence.<br />
8<br />
Ella<br />
Cottle<br />
Fairholme College, Toowoomba<br />
Kaleidoscope – Manipulated<br />
digital photography<br />
This series of split-second photographs explores<br />
how the human eye can often miss the beauty<br />
that surrounds us and also aims to highlight<br />
the importance of colour. Different shades and<br />
tones can convey mood to personality, and<br />
intriguing shapes can be created by the simplest<br />
movement of popping a paint-filled balloon.<br />
The light within the cubes illustrate how inner<br />
desires and passions illuminate these distinctive<br />
characteristics. Also, layering on the white figure<br />
and of the clear slides symbolise that every<br />
individual is a blank canvas on which experiences<br />
and decisions create a unique sequence of<br />
colours that is ever changing.
Nicola<br />
Curro<br />
Dalby State High School<br />
Brighter Brights and Whiter<br />
Whites – Installation<br />
Brighter Brights and Whiter Whites<br />
is a comment on the assumed<br />
‘assimilation’ of Australian society with<br />
the Australian citizenship tests. My<br />
artwork was influenced by a personal<br />
experience with my own cultural<br />
background and questions the validity<br />
of this testing in contemporary society.<br />
Jenna<br />
Daley<br />
Brisbane State High School<br />
Camouflage – Mixed media drawing<br />
This work is influenced by the European interception of Australia’s Indigenous<br />
culture and its people. It explores the exploitation of tribal customs as<br />
fashionable trends among European culture. The Indigenous masking of the<br />
18th century European women in these images serves as resistant commentary<br />
on the adoption of ‘white’ culture that was once forced upon Australia’s<br />
Indigenous people. The drawing has been completed in white-out correction<br />
pens to further enhance the satirical comment of cultural subversion.<br />
9
Brayden<br />
Doig<br />
Anglican Church Grammar School, Brisbane<br />
The Familiar Intruder – DVD<br />
I have lived in Papua New Guinea for 10 years. As a foreign resident, I often feel like<br />
a familiar intruder. In this work, I have allowed the viewer to connect to the people<br />
and environment of coastal villages in a similarly familiar but alienated manner.<br />
By repeatedly juxtaposing filmic tropes such as directional movement, suggesting<br />
travel, and visual penetration of a window space, documentary-style footage, sound<br />
scapes and self-portraiture, I constructed a dialogue about cultural relationships.<br />
The friendly responses of the people and alienating cinematic techniques, position<br />
the viewer problematically, as being both foreign and familiar.<br />
Claire<br />
Dunne<br />
The Cathedral College, Rockhampton<br />
History Repeats Itself – Mixed media,<br />
wood, turps released on calico<br />
I wanted to portray the injustices of adulthood throughout the modern world.<br />
To portray this unfairness between marginalised groups and people in power I have<br />
decided to make a circle of significant events in history that seem to be occurring<br />
over and over again. The concept I have used is history repeats itself. My idea is<br />
based around a circle. That a circle’s beginning and end is an illusion; where is the<br />
start and finish of something? Focusing on this concept, the viewer is asked the<br />
question — when will horrific events in history stop — I hope the project will have<br />
the viewer walking away questioning the injustices of the world and adulthood.<br />
10
Sophie<br />
Farmer<br />
Goondiwindi State High School<br />
The Last Lie – Installation<br />
Thirteen muslin, wine-soaked bottles are a metaphor for the last lie, symbolising the story<br />
of Saint Sophia, who watched her three children killed before her. This analogy satirises the<br />
confessional and communion ceremony performed to wash away sin and plead for forgiveness.<br />
The thirteen bottles, made of wine and muslin form a drunken line, making a contemporary<br />
mockery of Jesus and his disciples. The swaddling muslin forms the bottles, configuring the last<br />
supper where betrayal, guilt and lies prevailed. The thin veils of muslin struggle to maintain the<br />
form and contain the leaking of the last lie.<br />
Ashleigh<br />
Firmin<br />
William Ross State High School, Townsville<br />
Underground Alley – Watercolour/mixed<br />
My work was inspired after discovering a book registered with the<br />
Bookcrossing.com website, which encourages people in the practice of<br />
leaving books in public places to be passed on. These books are identified<br />
by their labels, which can be seen in the background of my work. While<br />
books take their readers on journeys, books also take their own journeys,<br />
hence the book passing from hand to hand.<br />
11
George<br />
Gabey<br />
Tagai State College – Thursday Island Secondary<br />
Spirits of the Totems – Lead pencil on paper<br />
This artwork was produced as part of my senior art studies in drawing<br />
techniques. The image represents my relationship with my totems, how<br />
they influence the way I act, move and think; where I come from in the<br />
spirit world. The faces in the drawing represent my ancestors, their tears<br />
showing them looking down and watching over me.<br />
Mirika<br />
Guffin<br />
Centenary Heights State High School, Toowoomba<br />
Yupik Unknown – Digital photography<br />
12<br />
Born in a small town located in north-west Alaska, I grew up learning about aspects of Yupik culture.<br />
Dance played a very prominent role. As a young child, I took this for granted and unfortunately, this<br />
unique part of native Alaskan culture is fading, disappearing from today’s modern world. I wanted to<br />
portray the importance and pureness of the Yupik culture. The photos are composed of a traditionally<br />
dressed Yupik woman posing in various dance postures. I chose black and white over colour because<br />
I believe it presents the truth with the powerful contrast between black and white — much like the<br />
contrast between Yupik and contemporary culture.
Melany<br />
Hayes<br />
Mirani State High School<br />
Work Will Set You Free – Mixed media on unframed canvas<br />
Auschwitz–Birkenau, the notorious Polish extermination camp, was the<br />
fundamental site of the systematic and efficiently executed genocide at<br />
the hands of Nazi Germany during the Second World War. Its incarcerated<br />
victims of mass executions, starvation, disease and medical experiments<br />
were disposed of at the purpose-built incinerators, the ashes being<br />
processed like merchandise and physically recycled for consumption.<br />
Ultimately they became absorbed by the landscape, supporting life in<br />
a horrific and paradoxical cycle of cannibalistic recycling. Through the<br />
ephemeral quality of the clay and the symbolic use of hair and ash, the<br />
physical human condition of Auchwitz–Birkenau is represented.<br />
Neil<br />
Hiscocks<br />
Rosewood State High School<br />
Voices – DVD<br />
Voices was created as an interpretation taken<br />
from the broad stimulus topic of the human<br />
condition. Specifically the work reflects on the<br />
condition of schizophrenia through a visual and<br />
auditory interpretation of the emotions that<br />
could exist within a sufferer of this disorder.<br />
I attempted to provoke mystery, uncontrolled<br />
tension and a sense of fear onto the audience<br />
through shot composition, soundtrack and<br />
editing.<br />
13
Carmen<br />
Holmes<br />
Centenary Heights State High School, Toowoomba<br />
Silhouettes – Digital photographs<br />
Silhouettes is a series of photographs which reflects upon the concepts of<br />
consumerism and conformity. It represents how the world and its people<br />
are changing around us. Each element reflects upon one of society’s many<br />
growing issues and how that issue is absorbed by people. The characters<br />
represent views of the way I see certain people and social groups.<br />
By creating this series, my aim is to train a spotlight on my interpretation<br />
of human issues and make that interpretation creative and interesting for<br />
the viewer. Silhouettes presents images of our ever changing society and<br />
its people.<br />
Bridget<br />
Hooper<br />
The Cathedral College, Rockhampton<br />
The Evolution of Nature<br />
– Wire encased in perspex<br />
The theme for my artwork is adulthood. I chose<br />
to use wire and metal-related materials to create<br />
my artwork. By using these materials I was able<br />
to incorporate binary opposites (man-made and<br />
natural). I did not want my message to be obvious.<br />
I wanted the viewer to think and see different things<br />
when they look at my artwork, like the stages of a<br />
butterfly. When people look at this artwork, I would<br />
like them to see that, just like us, the environment<br />
matures, as well as the evolution of nature.<br />
14
Ruby<br />
Hughes<br />
Emmaus College, Rockhampton<br />
Wolf! Run like Hell! – Mixed media on board<br />
There is a reference to the fairytale Red Riding Hood in my response to the question ‘Who are we?’<br />
The first layering of torn newsprint and photocopies of my younger self represents the memories and<br />
things we are told as a child. The wolf symbolises the pressure and truths in growing up. The forest,<br />
painted like a children’s illustration, represents the safety of family and home, and then a self-portrait<br />
of me is casting a shadow of threat towards the chaotic, muddy torn newsprint of the way the world<br />
really seems to be. This artwork represents what it feels like (to me) to be a teenager.<br />
Sarah<br />
Hylton<br />
Immanuel Lutheran College, Maroochydore<br />
Stuck in the Suburbs – Wall hanging<br />
Single-family homes, commuters and cookie cutter houses — these are all characteristics of inner<br />
suburbia that are now beginning to show around the world. The long represented ‘American dream’ is so<br />
sought after nowadays that its original values have been lost to the test of time. It may take more than<br />
119 houses for people to realise what has truly become of suburban living, but this is my attempt to draw<br />
attention to this ever changing societal structure.<br />
15
Dylan<br />
Janssen<br />
Nerang State High School, Gold Coast<br />
The Janssen Portable Steam-Powered Rhythmitical<br />
Audio Developing Machine – Sculpture<br />
Appearing old, yet able to communicate with the future, The Janssen<br />
Portable Steam-Powered Rhythmitical Audio Developing Machine, 2009,<br />
follows a rich history of the readymade and the guitar as subject matter<br />
in art history, while adopting more contemporary, steam-punk inspired<br />
techniques of construction. This object questions the concepts connected<br />
to the mass production of consumer goods. An imagined future, where<br />
electricity no longer exists, and steam power is the main power source<br />
driving our modern technologies, is proposed as a result of the creation<br />
of The Janssen Portable Steam-Powered Rhythmitical Audio Developing<br />
Machine.<br />
Yui<br />
Kimura<br />
Trinity Bay State High School, Cairns<br />
Tortured Bonsai – Installation<br />
16<br />
The motif of a much loved but slowly tortured bonsai tree expresses<br />
the conflicts I experience in my own life – between wanting to<br />
make my own choices and being constantly constrained by others’<br />
expectations. The cultural control associated with the art of Japanese<br />
bonsai, can be related to my struggle living in two cultures.<br />
The organic shapes of the tortured bonsai tree suggest the fragility<br />
of the tree. The tacked together transparent layers, and traced lines<br />
depict how interconnected and tangled my emotions are.
Samantha<br />
Knight<br />
Urangan State High School,<br />
Hervey Bay<br />
Untitled – Digital images<br />
Happiness can be used as a mask, hiding<br />
feelings behind bright colours and smiling<br />
faces. In time these masks become<br />
transparent and people see what is really<br />
there.<br />
Brighde<br />
Lewis<br />
Holland Park State High School, Brisbane<br />
Wired – Wire sculpture<br />
My technological space is fundamental to my sense of self. I have<br />
spent a large portion of my life in the virtual world. I use technology<br />
to create private space for relaxation, inspiration, communication<br />
and entertainment. Cyberspace is as real to me as the real world. I<br />
am interested in the sculptural properties of wire. Wire is strong but<br />
flexible and allows fluid manipulation to create both organic and<br />
man-made forms. The time that it took to construct the various pieces<br />
reflects the time I spend using them in my space. In order to control the<br />
weaving of the wire, my unprotected hands suffered cuts and blisters.<br />
I derived satisfaction from the physicality of this hands-on art. It made<br />
me examine every detail of the technology and contemplate just how<br />
important each individual piece is to me, and what it represents.<br />
The sound piece I created to accompany the work is made up of various<br />
sounds of all the systems in work — another representation of the<br />
sound of my life.<br />
17
Megan<br />
Mabin<br />
Mackay North State High School<br />
Am I Normal? – Digital photograph<br />
A quirky composition about what society perceives the average<br />
person to be. Many young people, it seems, don’t know who they<br />
are. My artwork is a comical question about what is normal and how<br />
I fit the mould.<br />
Natalie<br />
Maher<br />
Cairns State High School<br />
The Changing Individual – DVD<br />
Referencing Buber’s ‘I and thou’ philosophy, I filmed a recent trip to<br />
Brisbane from Cairns. I projected the footage onto a wall surface and<br />
myself and recorded the event. This film became the base for the next<br />
process. Juxtaposing multiple projected recordings (to reference the<br />
affect of movement on place and self) I immersed myself within two<br />
overlapping projections allowing the lines of reality to blur. The film<br />
of this event is the resolved work. I am interested in the relationship<br />
between my normal life and the changes that occur when I confront<br />
new experiences. In this work I have visually explored the changes and<br />
alterations that I experience in new locations.<br />
18
Romany<br />
Maunder<br />
St Joseph’s College, Toowoomba<br />
Family Ties – Sculpture and mixed media<br />
Family Ties is a sculptural<br />
representation of my identity,<br />
based on my ancestral history.<br />
The balsa wood tree, which<br />
has been embedded into<br />
the driftwood centre of<br />
the sculpture, refers<br />
directly to the notion<br />
of the family tree. I have<br />
included images, text and<br />
information sourced from<br />
my research into my family<br />
history on the base. The driftwood<br />
and wish bones are metaphors for<br />
my family’s connection to water and<br />
water divining. Moreover, this piece<br />
expresses how I see myself<br />
as an extension<br />
of my family’s<br />
blood line.<br />
Ashleigh<br />
McInnes<br />
St Andrew’s Catholic College Redlynch Valley, Cairns<br />
Paper Dreams – 2D, mixed media on paper<br />
This piece was created as part of a school unit ‘Metamorphosis’.<br />
Any medium or support could be used: however, incorporation<br />
of printmaking was a criterion for this unit. I chose to use a<br />
combination of acrylic paint and newspaper. The concept behind<br />
this art piece is that as humans we limit ourselves by fear, and<br />
as long as we play it safe we can never reach our full potential.<br />
Paper cranes flying off the page represents breaking through these<br />
constrictions which inevitably allows us to achieve our wildest<br />
dreams and reach towards unprecedented heights.<br />
19
Susan<br />
McTaggart<br />
Rockhampton Grammar School<br />
Fleeting Moments – Digital prints on paper<br />
The concept behind my arrangement of photographs is simply<br />
movement. I was interested in capturing previous movements of<br />
the subject as they twirled through a dance routine.<br />
The adjustments made to the shutter speed and aperture<br />
enhanced the desired effect, and the contrasting blue and<br />
orange colours brighten the blurred images. The movement of<br />
the human body is the key aspect captured in my artwork, in all<br />
its amazing and different forms.<br />
Chiho<br />
Miyagi<br />
Trinity Bay State High School, Cairns<br />
Reality – Installation<br />
This work depicts my changing emotions to and conflicting perceptions<br />
of my country of origin, Japan. The top sequence of woodblocks<br />
represents the warm atmosphere and cultural affinity I experienced<br />
when visiting Japan as part of a large school tour group. The bottom<br />
tiles depict my sharp contrast in perceptions when I have more recently<br />
travelled to Japan independently for a longer period of time.<br />
This experience left me feeling almost a state of culture shock<br />
and a lasting impression of a culture that is often cold, controlled,<br />
manufactured and contrived.<br />
20
Laura<br />
Moffat<br />
Whitsunday Anglican School, Mackay<br />
An Unfinished Journey – Mixed media and collage on shellac board<br />
My work captures the essence of memory and how these unique moments shape our lives. The work displays a procession<br />
of roughly constructed boats upon a series of postcards and collaged pieces of paper. Each boat displays a sense of<br />
incompletion. The gaping holes in their sides represent the moments in our lives that make each of us unique.<br />
The dripping lines flowing through the prints attempt to traverse the pitfalls between our own biography and those around<br />
us, connecting them together. The oars suspended on either side of the boats are symbolic to my own personal journey.<br />
Kirstin<br />
Payne<br />
Warwick State High School<br />
The Domino Effect – Mixed media<br />
The Domino Effect: A theory that a particular development or event will<br />
trigger the next. Looking at defining moments in the history of the human<br />
race we see wars, scientific breakthroughs, political progressions, pivotal<br />
individuals and prominent civilisations. One event inspires another,<br />
creating connections. My work looks at human history with images<br />
collaged and painted onto dominoes depicting significant moments —<br />
good or bad — toying with the theory of history’s interconnectedness.<br />
21
Sarah<br />
Poulgrain<br />
All Hallows’ School, Brisbane<br />
Facets of a Personality – Pastel on canvas<br />
Youth, as depicted in the three colour images (detail shown here), may<br />
seem to be different in the pensive black and white portrait; yet all are<br />
expressions of the one personality, a combination that adds depth to<br />
the subject. Three facets of personality are displayed, capturing the<br />
moment in colour. The black and white portrait is the source of these<br />
emotions. The serious tone is balanced by the lighting and colour in the<br />
smaller portraits. Suggested in the position of the mouth is the look of<br />
disapproval, while the tongue is simply ‘in your face’, a youthful action.<br />
Eloise<br />
Soper-Smith<br />
Sunshine Beach State High School<br />
Ferry Man – Monoprints/screenprints on paper<br />
Life is a journey, through the exploration of the human condition.<br />
I explored the notion of the journey ... we are born ... we grow ... we<br />
work it out along the way, making choices and decisions that alter<br />
and change the course we are to take ... and then we pass over.<br />
These nine images represent that journey between birth and death<br />
... from the moment we enter the world to the moment<br />
the ferry man takes us to the other side.<br />
22
Alanah<br />
Toleman<br />
Toomwoomba State High School<br />
Graffiti Voices – Photography and mixed media<br />
Graffiti Voices explores the method of communication and selfexpression<br />
which ‘soaks’ school communities in particular.<br />
Society’s perspective on this teenage method of emotional release<br />
is illustrated in the work’s presentation. Graffiti Voices catalogues<br />
students’ attempts at self-expression as inscribed on the bottom of<br />
school desks; photographed and digitally enhanced to highlight the<br />
messages of silent communication.<br />
Stephanie<br />
Tomoana<br />
Albany Creek State High School, Brisbane<br />
<strong>Art</strong>ificial Autopsy – Three Sculptures<br />
Dissect with a Photoshop scalpel, add 15 acrylic blood slices and frame in a Dexter style slide box. An autopsy<br />
is a performance. An examination of the body, brain and heart. We dissect and slice into the core. When life is<br />
attributed to the mundane — a fire extinguisher, a shoe, a mobile phone — their bodies replicate a carcass that<br />
can be sliced into the five major layers: the skin, the blood vessels, the muscles, the bones and the heart.<br />
23
Nicholas<br />
Warfield<br />
Iona College, Brisbane<br />
Bloodlines – Mixed media on canvas<br />
Bloodlines is a self-portrait. Through this work I explored the<br />
physical journeys of my day-to-day life. I collected tickets from<br />
places I travelled to, on trains and buses as well as places I have<br />
been (football games, movies and theme parks) over the past few<br />
months and stitched them together using red thread to canvas.<br />
The tickets express my connection to the city and illustrate how the<br />
train lines act like bloodlines in the city; feeding people through its<br />
veins to keep it alive.<br />
Hannah<br />
Whiteley<br />
St Peters Lutheran College, Brisbane<br />
Bagged – Digitally manipulated images<br />
The viewer is confronted with a complex assemblage of images that<br />
carry a message of conflict between Indigenous and non-Indigenous<br />
society. The artwork is another reminder to Australian society of<br />
its shameful relationship with Aborigines around the time of 1880<br />
to 1960 — which now is called the Stolen Generation. The oval<br />
vignetting on the photograph is isolating and therefore illustrates<br />
the passage of time in which the destruction of Aboriginal society<br />
occurred. The nation turned a blind eye to this social issue, which<br />
is represented by the placement of the Aboriginal faces within the<br />
paper bag.<br />
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Bernadine<br />
Yong<br />
Macgregor State High School, Brisbane<br />
Lotus Feet – Acrylic, pen and stitching on canvas<br />
This work explores Chinese foot binding. I am a contemporary<br />
Malaysian Chinese. I have no immediate connection with this<br />
aspect of my heritage. In my investigations, I have attempted to<br />
bridge the gap between the old world and the new. These canvases<br />
present the binding process and represent the irony of torturing self<br />
in the name of beauty. The stitching simulates the ornate shoes that<br />
shod the grotesque lotus feet, while the increasingly ornate patterns<br />
from the first to the last canvas represent the elevated status that<br />
the women obtain as a result.<br />
Chris<br />
Yung<br />
Macgregor State High School, Brisbane<br />
The Other World – Digital print<br />
Anxiety, seclusion and depression influence modern teenagers. Various aspects and events in a teen’s life can cause this. Modern youth<br />
is so overwhelmingly pressured by the heavy demands of school. Some teens choose to escape through the internet and exist in another<br />
reality. They use technology to build a less pressured environment away from school. I have deliberately utilised the stressful landscape of<br />
school to construct an alternative, happier other world. This is a place where we as teens are not burdened. The imagery, though, is intended<br />
to suggest that this alternative utopia only further serves to dislocate us and makes our connection to what is real more intangible.<br />
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Notes
Jaimee Abbay<br />
Brayden Doig<br />
Carmen Holmes<br />
Megan Mabin<br />
Sarah Poulgrain<br />
Allison Beech<br />
Claire Dunne<br />
Bridget Hooper<br />
Natalie Maher<br />
Eloise Soper-Smith<br />
Philippa Cary<br />
Sophie Farmer<br />
Ruby Hughes<br />
Romany Maunder<br />
Alanah Toleman<br />
Rachel Choi<br />
Ashleigh Firmin<br />
Sarah Hylton<br />
Ashleigh McInnes<br />
Stephanie Tomoana<br />
Laura Collins<br />
George Gabey<br />
Dylan Janssen<br />
Susan McTaggart<br />
Nicholas Warfield<br />
Ella Cottle<br />
Mirika Guffin<br />
Yui Kimura<br />
Chiho Miyagi<br />
Hannah Whiteley<br />
Nicola Curro<br />
Melany Hayes<br />
Samantha Knight<br />
Laura Moffat<br />
Bernadine Yong<br />
Jenna Daley<br />
Neil Hiscocks<br />
Brighde Lewis<br />
Kirstin Payne<br />
Chris Yung<br />
DET MAR 2010