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Now in its thirteenth year, First Class 20 continues to celebrate outstanding works produced by HSC Visual Arts students from the Hunter and Central Coast regions from the previous year. Giving young artists the chance to present their work within a professional gallery environment, First Class 20 also provides audience opportunities, with a nationally recognised platform showcasing the high calibre of works produced in the area. Employing a variety of visual imagery and techniques, many of these artists have turned inwards to explore the impact of this pandemic year on emotional and mental health. Themes of family, memories and the importance of home are distinctive concepts predominant in these exceptional times. Intimate works explore complex connections to home and identity, nostalgia, youth and personal relationships. Through the avenue of visual arts these student bodies of work reveal subjective insights into current concerns such as COVID, science and medicine, isolation, fear and anxiety. Many works highlight the vulnerability and fragility of the individual, allowing the audience an entry into the artist’s world through revealing private moments. A deep connection to nature is also explored with symbolic interpretations commenting on environmental impacts, damaged ecosystems and ecological responsibilities. The artworks embody the uncertain narrative of life today and comment on contemporary issues faced by society. - HELEN WILLIS Trinity Alt Grace Bosworth Sophie Davidson Jasmine Gibson Avondale School St Francis Xavier College Hamilton Warners Bay High School Glendale Technology High School 20 Contagion 20 Unveiled Is What’s Yours Mine?...Joy Bloodline Motormorphosis clay, wood, metal, glaze, oil paint, canvas paper, rice paper, watercolour, Toyota Corolla car bonnet, found objects dimensions variable gouache, acrylic paint photomedia, paper, air-dry clay, thread, dimensions variable 2770 x 600 graphite, canvas Ashlyn Brady 1350 x 900 Lilly Andrews Toronto High School Alivia Dwyer Lake Munmorah High School Lost in the Moment Warners Bay High School Naz Gulmez Collision photomedia, paper, foam board What They Don’t See Merewether High School acrylic paint, canvas 900 x 600 each ink, paper Time, Interrrupted 1860 x 1220 5700 x 920 photomedia, paper, video Natalie Costa dimensions variable Dylan Arkinstall Kincumber High School Amber Eldridge Lambton High School Dramatically an Expert at Irrawang High School Mikayla Haddow Behemoth Hiding in Plain Sight Vessel of Rebirth Hunter Christian School Camphor Laurel wood photomedia, paper clay, bark, ink, paper Fire Proof dimensions variable dimensions variable dimensions variable earthenware clay, raku clay, porcelain slip, underglaze Amelia Banister Maya Cox Taylah Ellercamp dimensions variable Callaghan College Jesmond Campus Merewether High School Swansea High School Portraits of Helena Inheritance ‘My Elements’- Earth, Water, Fire, Air Delaya Johns photomedia, paper photomedia, epson enhance matt paper arches paper, timber, beads, raffia, Irrawang High School 1210 x 880 each dimensions variable cotton, ink, paint, tissue paper, The Creation of Aesthete charcoal wax, wood, paper, ink, photomedia Tenicia Barry Emily Davidson dimensions variable dimensions variable West Wallsend High School Maitland Grossmann High School Bird Song Youthful Unrest paper, wood, photomedia, coloured pencil, oil paint, acrylic paint, FIRST CLASS 20 acrylic paint water colour paint, paper, gouache, dimensions variable timber, perspex, LED lights dimensions variable Pepita Barton Merewether High School Delicate Deadly Whilst the virus has caused many deaths worldwide, polypropylene, acetate dimensions variable like many other elements of nature it is a beautiful microscopic particle, a complex, convoluted design of intricacy. PEPITA BARTON My work depicts how the My mind felt like a process of time degraded landscape dissolves memories and the eerie presence of a life needing restoration, that used to occupy these spaces. a landscape that was mine to restore and conserve NAZ GULMEZ JACINTA LECK Rosie Jones Josef Milan Sarah Peisley St Joseph’s College Lochinvar Merewether High School Kotara High School Heritage Hard to Grasp Endemic porcelain clay, glaze, photomedia, acrylic paint, oil stick, spray paint, paper, ink, cotton, silk paper fabric, timber, board dimensions variable dimensions variable 2820 x 1125 Holly Quigley Zara Kelly Cassidy Motum Warners Bay High School Merewether High School Warners Bay High School Memory Unfolded It’s the things they’ll never know that Natural Revolution oil paint, board make us who we are paper, thread, watercolour, 2480 x 1130 stonehenge paper, graphite pencil ink, markers 760 x 560 each dimensions variable Lorien Saunders Hunter Sports High School Isabela Kennedy Bella Myers The Possible Impact of a Stranger’s Irrawang High School Toronto High School Gesture The Issues at Hand Spectral coloured pencil, paper paint, wood, paper, metal photomedia, metallic paper 1150 x 760 700 x 1230 200 x 100 Grace Williamson Alanna King Liam Nash Merewether High School Warners Bay High School St Mary’s Catholic Collage Gateshead Once you have tasted the sky you will Benjamin 184 Kilometres forever look up paper clay, underglaze photomedia, paper acrylic paint, medium, canvas dimensions variable 2045 x 930 dimensions variable Jacinta Leck Milli Neilson-Spitzer Warners Bay High School Newcastle High School Rewilding Stockpiling 2020 paper clay, wood, paper, digital images, sewing thread, linen, wire, cyanotypes, perspex embroidery hoops dimensions variable dimensions variable The images expose themes of isolation and loneliness as well as the Madeleine Lock Abbey-Rose O’Toole Merewether High School Belmont High School Lifebook This Blue Cradled Mind role of technology in paper, ink, light sensitive emulsion acrylic paint, canvas, drypoint etching, dimensions variable cyanoptype, steel, wire distant relationships. dimensions variable LIAM NASH Jenna Marley Merewether High School Myra Paleologos High Tide Merewether High School raku clay, plaster bandage, impasto, Papou’s Perivoli: Pop’s Veggie Patch acrylic paint, wood, coral, shells, prisma-colours, paper model figurines, plasticine dimensions variable FIRST CLASS 20 dimensions variable Nature’s veins run through the body of the earth erasing the damaging and disruptive footprint that humanity has left behind. CASSIDY MOTUM CURATED BY HELEN WILLIS AND MELODY JONES MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURE, LAKE MACQUARIE 12 FEBRUARY – 2 MAY 2021.