15th Annual ST GEORGE’S ART

An exhibition of works by senior art students from Western Australian schools

SAT 15 - SUN 23 JULY 2017

Cover artwork: Courage (Oil) by Amberley Bradley, People's Choice Winner, St George’s Art 2016 ST GEORGE’S ART 2017

WELCOME FROM THE DEAN

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Faith in God may be expressed in a variety of ways and one We are delighted that St George’s Art has become a significant Stronger of the richest is through the gift that artistic expression has annual event in ’s art education. Each given to our understanding of God, life, meaning and what it year the quality of works on display has improved. Some is to be fully human. Art can transport us to places to which of the artists go on to participate in the prestigious Year 12 only the imagination has access. And as we are taken beyond Perspectives at the Art Gallery of Western Australia later in ourselves it is possible to imagine those possibilities that the year. emanate from the Divine. Theologians, priests and pilgrims Giving back to the Anglican alike have experienced and reflected upon the fact that God Thank you to the judging panel and curators, who themselves is often to be found in the fruits of the impulse to paint, draw, are respected artists or educators in the arts, for their write, sculpt and build. expertise which helps us to maintain the quality and integrity Community since 1966 of the event. Finally, my thanks to our corporate sponsors, I welcome you to St George’s Cathedral, a place to inspire and government agencies and private donors, all of whom allow encourage, which has been filled with works of artistic beauty us to present St George’s Art at no cost to the artists. in this fifteenth year ofSt George’s Art. For more information visit us at the Diocesan Office, I hope that you have enjoyed this significant event in our We thank all of the talented young artists who have embraced calendar and pray that you will be uplifted and inspired by Church House, Level 5/3 Pier Street, WA 6000 the opportunity to exhibit their works, may they be a source these pieces of art. Please take a moment to choose your of inspiration for you and may you continue to develop your favourite work for the People’s Choice Award. contact us on (08) 9325 4182 God-given artistic talents. drop us an email at [email protected] or visit www.anglicancf.com.au The Very Reverend Richard Pengelley Dean of Perth

Anglican Community Fund (Inc) is not prudentially supervised by APRA. Contributions to the Fund do not obtain the benefit of the depositor protection provisions of the Banking Act 1959. Anglican Community Fund (Inc) is designed for investors who wish to promote the charitable purposes of the Fund. All investments in the Anglican Community Fund are guaranteed by the Anglican Diocese of Perth. 2 3 1 Title: School. This work is inspired by the routine of life and in But with a Ghoul particular, the routine of school life. I started by thinking about how the school weeks are roughly all Medium: Digital Animation the same and how the entire academic school year Category: Digital is planned to a repetitive timetable structure. Every Artist: Rory Dalitz school day is divided up into precise segments and it does not require emotional input to function. School: All Saints’ College

Title: Tree of Life My work references the fruits of life garnered from 2 Medium: Acrylic, Glitter, hard work and perseverance and how beautiful Bindis and Diamantes those fruits can be. These fruits are our reward and they make us grow and transform into something of Category: 2D peace and greatness. Artist: Rachelle Dollar School: All Saints’ College

Title: Science vs Superstition Our Western Society’s standards and its forcible 3 Medium: Oil and Acrylic on nature manipulate many to impulsively criticise those who do not comply - more specifically East Canvas Asian culture where “animal abuse” is a conventional Category: 2D behaviour of survival. My work compares the two Artist: Joanne Le societies and the issues of animal abuse in the School: Ashdale Secondary medical industry - more specifically the issue of Bear Bile farming across Asia and Animal testing, College commenting on these unnoticed double standards.

Title: Women in STEAM Women in STEAM is an artwork aimed to empower 4 Medium: Oil, Acrylic and women who work, or aspire to work, in STEAM industries — Science, Technology, Engineering, Chemicals on Glass Arts and Mathematics. To represent such fields, Category: 2D I have developed the practice of incorporating Artist: Yasmine Mnahy different chemicals within my artwork. Additionally, School: Ashdale Secondary I have handmade the frames, which are integral as they seal off the hazardous chemicals within the College art. I learnt to weld my frames, which again is an industry dominated by men. For three immersive months, enjoy 1 JUNE TO 31 AUGUST #EMBRACETHEELEMENTS more than 150 art events and a Title: My Identity We are students from an Islamic background who VISITPERTHCITY.COM Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas wanted to express our identity through our work. host of free family activities to 5 The artwork consists of Arabic script of Asmaa inspire everyone from young to old. Category: 2D Allah Alhusna. In Australia we are blessed to have Artist: Asma Abushwisha, the opportunity to practice our religion in school, or Plus, there’s 60 winter wine and Aliya Abdul Rahman, mosques. We all have different stories of why we dine offers to bring art to the plate. Fizza Ali, Hajir Ibrahim, left our countries to seek settlement in Australia, but we are all glad that we are here living in peace. Come and explore all that Winter Raed Umair, Rafe Umair School: Australian Islamic Arts Season has to offer. College

4 5 6 Title: Refractions My artwork explores the importance of expressing 11 Title: Untitled In this triptych I have been inspired by Frida Kahlo. Medium: Posca Pen on Perspex emotions, whether they are positive or negative. Medium: Mixed Media on Paper In these paintings we see three images: deer in Society tells us to repress negative emotions, for different colours and poses. The poses of the Category: 3D the convenience of others, in order for them to live Category: 2D deer represent creativity in The Arts, especially Artist: Greer Medley in happy oblivion, ignoring the reality of melancholy. Artist: Jack Pink visual arts. The pen drawings in the two outer School: Balcatta Senior High My intention for this artwork is to address the School: Byford Secondary deer images are of myself actively pursuing my importance of normalizing every adverse human love of painting and photography, representing my School College feeling, and tackling negative emotions by passion for visual arts. acknowledging them, to prevent mental illnesses, especially among adolescents.

Title: Cradle This is a self-portrait of the artist that is aimed Title: Man in a Hijab “Man in a Hijab” focusses on the misconceptions 7 Medium: Oil on Canvas to reflect the calmness and serenity of the face 12 Medium: Acrylic on Plywood Australian society has towards Islam. Society often we show to the world compared to the side of sees a garb and equates it with oppression. To Category: 2D Category: 2D ourselves that we hide away. counteract this belief I have placed my father in a Artist: Shannon Muggeridge Artist: Noor Iqbal garb to put him on the same level as an Islamic School: Balcatta Senior High School: woman; this challenges the public to see the School equality between a man and his wife in Islam. A hijab is a choice and makes us no less than a man.

Title: Escapism This self-portrait identifies the importance of reading Title: Reflections My painting “Reflections” is the act of contemplating 8 Medium: Mixed Media as a form of escapism from the world around us. 13 Medium: Oil on Perspex one’s character and actions. I have portrayed This portrait on books was created to show that this through the glass like consistency of my Category: Mixed Media & Textiles instead of facing the reality we live in, some people Category: 2D background. The image is a mixture of myself and Artist: Lily Routledge jump into books. Books can provide an alternative Artist: Breanna Quayle a stranger; I have done this to challenge society’s School: Balcatta Senior High and more ideal reality for these people. Black School: Canning Vale College views of really knowing yourself. School markers have been used as the media because they do not bleed like ink, and didn’t block out the books, unlike paint.

Title: Brandon In this mixed media painting, I was inspired by Title: Strung Out In this work I am exploring the role of women in 9 Medium: Mixed Media Andy Warhol. The picture shows a camouflage 14 Medium: Pen, Pencil and traditional and modern Chinese society. I have tried background, which symbolizes my brother’s career to depict the blend of traditional patriarchy and String on Board Category: 2D in the army. To contrast this I have a silhouette modern contemporary through the buildings. The Artist: Tayla Conn portrait image of my brother, which I sprayed using Category: 2D needles on the artwork represent the harmfulness School: Byford Secondary black spray paint in the middle of the composition. Artist: Jiabin Zhang of the female role and the string is designed to College This represents my brother’s love for visual art. School: Canning Vale College reflect the emerging equality and feminism.

Title: Arabella In this mixed media painting, I was influenced by Title: Kia Kaha (Stay Strong) Kia Kaha reflects my experiences of the 2012 10 Medium: Mixed Media Mexican artist Frida Kahlo. The three lead pencil 15 Medium: Plaster, Zinc, Wood Christchurch earthquake. The heads are symbolic drawings show frontman Alex Turner, the lead and Acrylic of a mental transition demonstrating how a natural Category: 2D singer of Arctic Monkeys. In the background we disaster can disrupt the psyche yet also allow for Category: 3D Artist: Lettesha De Rosa can see a combination of drawing and collage a change of perspective, and also symbolise the Artist: Chloe Breach School: Byford Secondary that shows floral designs and butterflies which notion of community and cultural unity in times College represents High Green - the Sheffield suburb School: Chisholm Catholic of crisis. The metal framework is reminiscent of a where Turner was born and raised - and which College Richter scale which also symbolises the heartbeat echoes the Yorkshire Rose tattooed on his arm. of the earth and city I grew up in.

6 7 16 Title: Memory Memory is a reflection on my life and the disease 21 Title: A Chill In The Air Looking past the obvious, my subject matter is Medium: Acrylic that runs through my family. It shows the hardship Medium: Pencil about nature. Whether it is a traditional landscape and raw emotion of the effects of loss. The focal or a bird, close observation and engagement of the Category: 2D point, my Aunty who lost her battle, embodies Category: 2D subject is my process. I use traditional coloured Artist: Lisa Croswell weakness. My grandfathers in the background Artist: Lloniq Lai pencil on board, to capture movement and life, School: Chisholm Catholic complete the line of suffering that this disease has School: Corpus Christi College making the pencil dance, the colour sing. My goal put my family through. I understand that time is not is to inspire those who see my work to look carefully College a guarantee in life. at the world around them, to discover beauty in unusual and surreal circumstances and places.

Title: Dee “Dee” explores the theme of loss and the natural Title: Jalan Penang I was inspired by the Australian expressionist Julie 17 Medium: Wood and Rust way humans deal with this emotion, reflected in the 22 Medium: Pencil Podstolski whose work captured the beautifully wood. On the left is my Grandmother who passed detailed imagery of Asian cultures. My composition Category: Mixed Media & Textiles Category: 2D a little over a year ago, and on the right my mother; is a reflection of my heritage and the importance of Artist: Chloe D’Andrilli the two share a special bond. The natural features Artist: Rachel Raphael not losing my cultural identity of being Malaysian. School: Chisholm Catholic symbolize the growth of love and its continuation School: Corpus Christi College College through generations, particularly in times of loss. “Dee”, a name used by Mum, is a celebration of her life.

Title: Safe My artwork explores how a judgemental society Title: More than meets The intention of my artwork is to depict a symbolic 18 Medium: Acrylic on Wood can cause people to hide their identity. The woman 23 the eye interpretation of the thoughts of life and purpose in the painting is provided with warmth from the alive within the mind of a teenager. It is also intended Medium: Pencil Category: 2D candle and cloak, acting as her protection. By to combat the existing stereotypical ideology that Artist: Kayla Blyth hiding away from the watchful eyes of others, she is Category: 2D teenagers are focussed on material things and School: Comet Bay College avoiding the chance of being judged. Many people Artist: Tyler Sandon physical appearance, instead to remind, instil and take steps and precautions with what is said and School: Corpus Christi College evoke meaning and purpose within one’s own life. how they present themselves, hoping to avoid My artwork’s theme is of ‘’curiosity and identity’’. judgement, and in doing so lose their identity.

Title: Self-Portrait: Pink An androgynous person can be considered as Title: Open book This is a sculptural piece that I constructed out of a 19 & Blue someone whose gender is ambiguous to others 24 Medium: Book book. I wanted to create a wonderland inside this because of their appearance. I wish to encourage book. My inspiration was my love of reading and I Medium: Gouache intrigue and consideration from the viewer about Category: 3D wanted to capture a moment where I felt safe and Category: 2D how the way we read a person’s gender can Artist: Ivan Valenzuela my imagination could wonder while I read. Artist: Brindy Donovan change the way we interact with and treat them. I’d School: School: Comet Bay College also like to convey the simple belief that, regardless of differences or a person’s appearance, we must treat each other with respect.

Title: Final Boss My piece depicts the adventure and glory that Title: Traverse This artwork was inspired by my journey to the 20 Medium: Acrylic on Wood comes from video games: the satisfaction of 25 Medium: Oil on Canvas South West: particularly the coastline at Moses overcoming a great challenge. Being able to Rock, Wilyabrup. It is a component of my final Year Category: 2D immerse yourself in their constructed reality, as a Category: 2D 12 assessment, and is part of a set of works still Artist: Nicholas Vickers character that reflects yourself. The artwork also Artist: Lawson Ayers in progress. School: Comet Bay College challenges the stereotype that women cannot be a School: Hale School part of the gaming community and industry.

8 9 26 Title: Leederville Car Park I created this painting as part of a series of pieces 31 Title: Spaced Out Kids My work explores how expectations are forced Medium: Oil on Canvas for Year 12 Art. I took inspiration from artists such Medium: Gouache and Pen upon children, causing them to feel alienated from as Jeffrey Smart and Georgio de Chirico. The their own identity. With this idea of alienation, I on Paper Category: 2D painting depicts my sister standing alone in an placed stereotypical representations of a boy and Artist: Rhys Hemery urban environment in Leederville, and comments Category: 2D a girl set back to back in a galaxy. Correlating to the School: Hale School on isolation in the modern world as well as the Artist: Destini Harding colloquial pun of the title, the two look disinterested, aesthetics of the geometric urban landscape. aloof, and “spaced out”. The reaching out of the School: Irene McCormack hands unsettles the viewer and applies the idea Catholic College that the children are being forced into their roles.

Title: School Boy Sitting I created this painting as part of a series of paintings Title: Technology Takeover My decision to use digital means to create my 27 Against Wall for Year 12 Art. The piece takes inspiration from 32 Medium: Digitally altered art work connects to the technological ties my Medium: Oil on Canvas Jeffrey Smart, but with a great focus on the figure Photograph generation have with devices and our obsession as opposed to the surrounding urban environment. with social media. I took photos of a friend and my Category: 2D It comments on isolation in the modern world, Category: Digital sister to represent the teenage age group, where Artist: Rhys Hemery focusing particularly on school students. Artist: Mia Trewin social media is a large part of our lives. I pixelated School: Hale School School: Irene McCormack each portrait in Photoshop, before individually changing the colours of social media logos to Catholic College match the tones within each pixel.

Title: Poppa The portrait of my Poppa breathes life into a once- Title: Undivided Power My work explores political differences in North Korea. 28 Medium: Wood burn on Timber living tree, that has been felled by man. Burning 33 Medium: Posca Pen on Paper I wanted to display the lack of freedom that North is a technique traditionally used in photography Korea has, as shown through the dominance of Category: 2D to enhance images. Using a soldering iron, I Category: 2D Kim Jong-un’s figure. He overpowers the additional Artist: Lauren Fleming have interpreted this technique in a literal sense, Artist: Scott Wickens figures in a politically-styled poster, reflecting his School: Iona Presentation “burning” a portrait of my Poppa onto the natural School: Irene McCormack superior role of leadership. Overall, I was influenced College medium of timber. This medium has strong links Catholic College by the techniques of Shepard Fairey, Banksy and with his connection to the land - an element that Ron English and their aspirations to demonstrate brings both happiness and prosperity, yet also the flaws within humanity. hardship and despair.

Title: A Fading House of My artwork is a portrait of my grandfather and the Title: Seekers This painting was influenced by the Surrealist 29 Memories deterioration of his cognitive function as a result of 34 Medium: Oil on Canvas Movement. I created a collage using National Alzheimer’s and its progression over time, as well Geographic magazines and captured the scene Medium: Mixed Media on as the paler recollections of life that come with Category: 2D using oil paint on canvas. Plywood dementia. Beeswax and tissue paper have been Artist: Tessaray Ackerman Category: 2D employed to consume the figure, and represent the School: John Curtin College Artist: Alexandra O’Brien slow overtaking of the disease. Charcoal, and its of the Arts ability to be easily blurred and erased, allows the School: Iona Presentation drawing to take on an ephemeral quality. College

Title: Morning Ritual My artwork depicts women in various stages of Title: Reverie Reverie is inspired by my brother’s love of 30 Medium: Oil on Canvas getting ready in the morning. This routine becomes 35 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas daydreaming. I wanted to capture a moment of a ritual that forces women to amend their outward floating away. I was influenced by Marc Chagall’s Category: 2D selves with varying numbers of beauty products, in Category: 2D floating figures. I wanted to recreate how his Artist: Zoe Sydney order to be seen as functional members of society. Artist: Zoe Casey paintings give a sense of narrative whilst creating a School: Iona Presentation By reminding the viewer of the process that women School: John Curtin College surreal atmosphere. College have to undergo in order to appear this way, I hope of the Arts to lessen the pressure (placed on women only) to conform to these uncompromising expectations.

10 11 36 Title: Who Am I? This artwork was created around a question that 41 Title: Absurdity Of Exclusion The creative substitution of lizard heads and bird Medium: Impasto and Acrylic I get asked frequently: “Where are you from?” Medium: Coloured Pencil on heads aims to offer commentary on a marginalised Born in South Korea yet an Australian citizen, I minority. The preposterous idea of combining on Canvas Wooden Board question myself on where I stand. To represent this human life with that of the animal kingdom helps in Category: 2D struggle of identity, I created a confronting image Category: 2D highlighting the ridiculousness of separating others Artist: Ronny Han of two figures being torn apart. The blue and white Artist: Georgia Rickard based on outward appearance. I created my work represent the major colours of the national flags of by appropriating photos I found from the 1940s School: John Curtin College School: John Wollaston both countries. I was influenced by George Gittoes’ that accurately represented the negative injustice of the Arts Anglican Community use of impasto. that occurred and adding the animal heads onto School them.

Title: Cover Photo “Cover Photo” aims to capture the effects of Title: In the Ocean My artwork was created to show my personal 37 Medium: Oil and Paverpol on technology and social media on today’s society. 42 Medium: Oil on Canvas growth in the senses of freedom and confidence. Young girls are exposed to revealing body In each painting I have used a beach landscape, as Circuit Boards Category: 2D expectations in the media, abusing their self- I connect to that setting a great deal. I used myself Category: 2D esteem, as can be seen through the rough bruises Artist: Twyman Taije as the figure at different ages to show my self- Artist: Isabella Agostino on the figure in my artwork. Girls are objectified by School: John Wollaston esteem altering as I matured. My influences were School: John XXIII College social media and feel obligated to look a certain Anglican Community Euan Macleod, Andrew Wyeth and Jeffrey Smart, way. The “worship” of social media is symbolised from whom I have gained a sense of realism. School in the woman’s gaze and outstretched hand to the symbolic blue “Twitter” bird.

Title: Earth’s Bane In this film, I communicate the environmental Title: Monopati (Greek for My artwork connotes the idea of knowledge 38 Medium: Film issues that our world is facing, including pollution, 43 pathway) and where it began, how it has developed and deforestation, and climate change. Our world is been established over time, as well as how far it Medium: Oil Category: Digital slowly but surely deteriorating, as shown by the could progress in the future. It was inspired by a Artist: Cooper Gordon destruction of the world globe in the film. I was Category: 2D photograph I took near the entrance at the Ancient School: John XXIII College influenced by photographer Steve McCurry’s use of Artist: Anja Kovacevic Greek ruins of the Acropolis. I feel it communicates depth of field and saturated colour, as well as simply School: Kalamunda Senior the importance of human knowledge and how it reading and observing the news in relation to the has evolved and how it will continue to do so. High School problems our globe is facing.

Title: Self-Portrait - My whole life I have been what most people call Title: The last 3 Through my work, I wanted to persuade the 39 Bowerbird a “hoarder”; I prefer the term “bowerbird”. I keep 44 Medium: Pen on Paper viewers to think about the importance of bees objects as mementoes of different times in my life. within our ecosystem. I created these drawings as Medium: Oil on Canvas The artwork shows the bowerbird, a representation Category: 2D though they posed as the last 3 bees on earth, Category: 2D of myself, with each object collected in the bird’s Artist: Laura Roberts pinned like butterflies in a museum. Global factors Artist: Siobhan Waller nest representing an aspect of my personality, School: Kalamunda Senior are seriously affecting their existence and they play School: John XXIII College creating a “self-portrait”. High School such a pivotal role in our ecosystem. Not enough people recognise this fact.

Title: Accepted Beauty My artwork aims to illustrate the pressure felt by Title: The realms of day My artwork explores moral and identity decay in 40 Medium: Oil on Canvas. women to conform and constantly adhere to 45 and night children, who are driven by parents’ or society’s certain standards of beauty. Particular aspects of expectations that pre-determine their futures. Medium: Pencil and Watercolour Category: 2D society, like social media and cosmetic industries, The subject’s future has been pre-determined as a Artist: Emily Davis have constructed ideas and images of how women Category: 2D doctor. Her robotic expression reveals how she is School: John Wollaston should appear, which have then been embedded Artist: Janice Fung attempting to come to terms with this, knowing she Anglican Community into society. My work has incorporated influences School: Kingsway Christian can’t fight back. Her internal turmoil and frustration from Jenny Saville and her exploration of society’s is symbolised through the purple colour. People School College norms about appearances and body image, as well can pretend to be fine externally when they’re as her depictions of cosmetic/plastic surgeries. not internally.

12 13 46 Title: Misconception In our modern-day society, our first impressions 51 Title: Progression? This work explores the consequences of man’s Medium: Watercolour, Gouache of someone are mostly based on how they look. Medium: Oil on Canvas constant search for progression and development. Society is quick to judge and often categorises In our greed for bigger and better, we destroy and Aquarelle people due to their outer appearance. Minor Category: 2D nature, shown by the trees which have evolved Category: 2D flaws and imperfections are enough for us to be Artist: Amberley Harris into buildings. The girl who is one with the land Artist: Emily Guo considered different from society. However, I want School: Lake Joondalup Baptist represents how we humans need nature to live: my viewer to accept the fact that they are each firmly rooted into the land and sustained by it, as School: Kingsway Christian College unique individuals that should embrace their looks. we should sustain nature too. College

Title: Contemplation This self-portrait is a strong expression of the Title: A life lived An accumulation of memories achieved through a 47 Medium: Mixed Media deep contemplation and moments of reflection 52 Medium: Oil and Wallpaper on lifetime is etched across the face of my Grandma. experienced during my teenage years, and how I As the years pass, memories fade but the scars Category: 2D Board have always found an escape from the pressures and marks on our bodies don’t, forcing us to Artist: Georgia Hammond of life through music. My painting has been Category: 2D remember our lives. Studying artist Brett Whiteley School: Kingsway Christian strongly influenced by the artist Ben Quilty, who Artist: Tylor Mollard and his extensive perception of emotion has College incorporates bold strokes of colour to his portraits School: Lake Joondalup Baptist inspired me to delight in the qualities of oil paint to in order to construct character, whilst approaching render the richness of a life etched on the face of College it with an element of realism. a loved one.

Title: Victim of Futile A muslim woman is pictured in water carrying a Title: “Old Pine” Inspired by the issue of deforestation which 48 Medium: Acrylic on Wooden worrisome expression and reaching her hand 53 Medium: Oil on Pine impacts so many global plantations, I have up. This represents her inability to overcome the explored the damaging consequences of urban Canvas prejudiced views people have about the Islamic Category: 2D sprawl through oil paint and, ironically, pine Category: 2D religion and people. Artist: Sophie Vawser timber. The work displays the disastrous effects Artist: Aerin Brown School: Lake Joondalup Baptist of deforestation through a series of panels that School: Kolbe Catholic College College showcase a progressively tragic lifecycle. “Creak. Groan. Snap! Whoosh! Crash! Cries of an ancient fortress murdered in cold blood.” - Anonymous.

Title: I Am Not Moana Based on the Japanese belief, “Honne Tatemae”, Title: Divided Definition Divided Definition conveys the message that 49 Medium: Acrylic there is a mask we show others, ourselves, and 54 Medium: Foam Core and gender identity is a multiple aspect and orientation a mask which shows one’s true identity. Intrigued that cannot be defined as one whole term. The Photoshop Category: 2D by this, “I Am Not Moana” expresses a vivid artwork being “divided” is a metaphor for the reality Artist: Jada De Luca story about the false and limited identification of Category: Digital that an individual’s gender is not interpreted by one School: Kolbe Catholic College Polynesians, told through the lens of a girl of mixed- Artist: Dhanica Gonzales perception of what is man and what is woman. I race. This painting shows the vulnerability of un- School: Lumen Christi College took an original photograph and manipulated it in masking herself to challenge societal constructs, Photoshop. the breaking of stereotypes, and the proclamation of pride in diversity.

Title: Fleeing Bangladesh “Fleeing Bangladesh” features a mother clinging Title: Society’s Weapon The message that I want people to get from my 50 Medium: Graphite to her distressed child hoping for freedom. Each 55 Medium: Drawing on Metal and artwork is that the words that form the gun are panel was constructed individually to define the the words that society uses against people. It’s a Perspex Etching Category: 2D character and to portray their raw emotions. Using weapon, in metaphorical sense, that society uses. Artist: Jacinta Posik graphite pencils, I focused on different aspects - Category: 2D The companion piece is three bullets, made up of School: Kolbe Catholic College from shading, to elements of the face and hand - to Artist: Zhyesha Richardson three words, each word being a different bullet. express the strong emotional impact the two faces School: Lumen Christi College The words are wounded, isolated and damaged: are depicting. The 6 panels form a large piece, yet these words represent how the people feel after still impact when hanging individually. Photo credit: society’s words hurt them. Don McCullin 1971.

14 15 56 Title: Perfect Flaws “Perfect Flaws” depicts that women in society 61 Title: Still Life With Baby’s This piece intends to explore the notion of contrast Medium: Oil on Canvas are told that their scars and imperfections are not Breath/htaerB s’ybaB - both in colour and in context. The appropriation of beautiful. My painting wants to address that these htiW efiL llitS a classic oil-on-canvas still life juxtaposes with the Category: 2D scars are unique for everyone and instead of hiding modern colours and ideas put to use. It intends to Medium: Oil on Canvas Artist: Sirena Speyers or covering such scars they should embrace them. highlight the difference in the ideas of the romantic Category: 2D School: Lumen Christi College I did this by painting the scar in a vibrant colour to and postmodern movements - two equal but make it stand out. I used a model to do drawing Artist: Edie Duffy opposite themes in art history. It presents pure studies for the painting. juxtaposition through a multiplied still life: tradition School: Melville Senior High and technology, praise and critique, positive and School negative.

Title: Ecology v Technology My artwork was created to make a commentary Title: Busselton, 2012 My artwork is a nostalgic piece that is reflective of 57 Medium: Ink on Paper on the growing technological presence within 62 Medium: Oil on Canvas the bittersweet feeling of leaving your hometown every aspect of modern day society, inspired whilst at the same time entering a new chapter of Category: 2D Category: 2D by the Dr Seuss movie “The Lorax”. Depicting a life. To me, times of day are attached to emotion. Artist: Poppy Chalklen galloping horse in bright, saturated colours I have Artist: Eliza Lock The emotion I wanted to communicate through my School: Mandurah Baptist aimed to communicate a sense of life. Within the School: Melville Senior High piece was that of a warm nostalgia and hence my College horse I intertwined technological components School mind was instantly brought to the mixture of warm with the skeleton, showing technology’s pervasive and cool colours that occur at sunset. presence in nature, and the way it is dominating all things created.

Title: Regenerations Inspired by the works of Lauren Marx, this work Title: Vital Materialism This work explores the consequences and 58 Medium: Ink on Paper explores the concept of death nurturing new life 63 Medium: Mixed Media realities of the beef industry’s existence. Themes in nature through regeneration. Adapting Marx’s regarding the environmental impact of the industry, Category: 2D attention to detail and line, I have created a work Category: 2D the ethical questions surrounding dairy and veal Artist: Poppy Chalklen that speaks of the circle of life and the beauty of Artist: Theresa Tedeschi production, and humanity’s part in the process are School: Mandurah Baptist that cycle. School: Melville Senior High visually discussed through the multi-layered use College School of plastics, butchers paper and pins to display the faux-leather hides like butterflies.

Title: The Year of the Rabbits The Year of the Rabbits is a commentary on Title: Lose Yourself My artwork was inspired by one of Jenny Holzer’s the Chinese revolution and its social impacts on 59 Medium: Acrylic, Ceramics and 64 Medium: Oil on Canvas 1001 Truisms, “The unconscious mind is often truer reproduction and gender. The faces in use are than the conscious mind.” The subject’s contained, Wood an acknowledgement of Chinese artist Zhang Category: 2D suppressed emotions in the first panel juxtaposes Category: 2D Xiaogang, appropriated from his painting series Artist: Anya Celik with their release of pent up rage in the second Bloodline. My work comments on the one child Artist: Taylor Kolk panel. Bottles symbolise repressed anger and policy, implemented by China to control a growing School: Newman College despair - “bottling of emotions”. The subject inside School: Mandurah Catholic unsustainable population, which has resulted the bottle represents the reserved “conscious” College in other societal issues such as an increased male population and demand for male babies or state. The figure emerging from the bottle rabbits only! signifies breaking free, releasing inner emotions, losing oneself.

Title: Trapped Trapped is a three-dimensional art work consisting Title: Fringe My artwork explores one of Jenny Holzer’s Truisms, 60 Medium: Acrylic and Wood of two painted images of a young boy. I was 65 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas “The only way to be pure is to stay by yourself.” It inspired by the project theme, Differences, and my shows the viewer how someone with unique values Category: 3D personal belief about the pressures and negative Category: 2D expresses themselves, and how they contrast with Artist: Olivia Mason expectations and stereotypes that are placed on Artist: Stefan D’Angelo others in society who “blend in”. The subject is School: Mandurah Catholic young boys of today. My paintings are framed within School: Newman College standing in an open position, urging the viewer to College a box to convey a cramped and claustrophobic follow in his footsteps. The surrounding figures are space which also reinforces the meaning behind depicted in a ghostly fashion, as they are blurry in my artwork. their expression of self.

16 17 66 Title: Where the heart is “Where the heart is” explores how living in a 71 Title: Keeping Things in My artwork depicts an individual girl with an Medium: Acrylic on Canvas home-style environment can be the very heart Proportion unrealistic self-image who has been influenced of a person and influence who you become. into believing that her body cannot be accepted Medium: Oil and Gesso on Category: 2D The first artwork shows a heart merged with a by society. Intimate and challenging images of Wood Artist: Elisha Lang contemporary styled home. The second artwork a vulnerable girl in her bathers have been painted Category: 2D School: Newman College expresses the connection between a home in pale, washed out colours. The defined bones building a sense of self, and home being where Artist: Danielle Musarra along with intense pulls and pinches of skin the heart is, through merging a baby into a human contradict each other, comparing the ideal body School: Perth College heart, symbolically creating a home for the infant. projected to us by the media versus the reality of our actual selves.

Title: Self-Portrait Inspired by Salvador Dali, my self-portrait explores Title: Manifestation Stress starts off as a small, irritating feeling inside 67 Medium: Oil on Canvas conflict of the self, featuring a surrealist depiction 72 Medium: Acrylic, Stranded you, each day growing larger and creating more of me against a classic Dali backdrop. Twisted strain. My piece engages with this idea: five small Category: 2D Cotton on Canvas tongues indicate indecisiveness and a moral canvasses with hands painted on them represent and Wood Artist: Stella O’Hara compass sitting in place of my eye indicates moral the impact of stress and how stress develops Category: 2D School: Penrhos College conflict. Whilst conflict of the self can cause trouble over time. The thread symbolizes how stress can in decision making, I feel it to be essential to human Artist: Tessa Stirling consume your every thought, until you make the development. conscious action to either let it consume you or let School: Perth College it go and move on.

Title: No Sex in the Suburbs My garment forms part of a larger body of work Title: Hollywood: Reimagined My artwork takes posters from popular films and addressing the lost hopes and aspirations of 68 Medium: Textiles 73 In Colour incorporates the representation of women which women caught up in day to day domesticity, where they were notoriously lacking. With an all-women Medium: Digital Painting printed Category: Mixed Media & Textiles any hope of a love-life is pure fantasy. The delicately cast, and strong feminist film crew at the helm, Star on Board Artist: Grace Wholley embroidered, ethereal gown embodies the fairy- Wars: A New Hope, Citizen Kane and La Dolce tale qualities of another existence. The shabby tee- Category: Digital Vita are portrayed as intersectionally inclusive. School: Penrhos College shirt that reads “No Sex in the Suburbs” sits in a I have put actresses in empowering roles in which laundry basket and tells the real story. Artist: Jubilee Chan they are fighting for the representation they are School: overdue in an industry that doesn’t bother trying to accommodate them.

Title: Claudia My painting shows a young woman looking out at Title: In-Between This artwork explores my relationship with my 69 Medium: Water-soluble Oil the viewer, with a large, ominous shadow looming 74 Medium: Acrylic and Impasto heritage and the frustrations of being unable to fully over her. The dark and foreboding background connect with Japanese culture. Being of mixed on Canvas on Canvas highlights her pale and sickly features. The intent cultural background can feel as though I am caught Category: 2D for this work is to show the side of domestic abuse Category: 2D between two different worlds. The girl becomes Artist: Simone Woolfitt against women that remains mostly unseen: a Artist: Hannah Clapperton another face in the crowd; her out-dated fashion is School: Penrhos College reality in which women often present a front to School: Perth Modern School symbolic of how disconnected I am with my own society to hide the truth. culture. I’m out of touch with the idiosyncrasies of the modern lifestyle - I am a foreigner in my own country.

Title: The Curious City When you were a child you would get lost in your Title: Beauty of the Below I wanted the viewer to explore and appreciate 70 Medium: Micron Markers on imagination constantly; as you get older, you start 75 (Octopus and varied diverse and beautiful sea life and coral formations. to lose your sense of playfulness and wonder. Inspired by Courtney Mattison, I focused on Paper, Card and Coral) My artwork is a fold-out storybook that explores creating detailed coral formations with lots of Canvas Board Medium: Ceramics imagination by creating a fantasy world that the varying textures, shapes and colours to encourage Category: 3D main character immerses herself in. She explores Category: 3D the audience to look at the fine detail of my Artist: Stephanie Dunkeld an underwater city, a town in the sky, a faraway Artist: Caitlin Morgan artwork and to move around the piece and view meadow, and a lit up street full of bewilderment - it from multiple angles. My Octopus sculpture is School: Perth College School: Perth Modern School places of her dreams. made from clay and has been coloured with ceramic glazes.

18 19 76 Title: A yarn about My artwork focusses on the issue of animal 81 Title: Man’s Greed This work speaks of how man’s greed affects exploitation exploitation, specifically within the sheep and wool Medium: Ceramics the environment, turning our precious and often industries. The three panels, linked with fabric, irreplaceable resources into profit. It creates an Medium: Yarn and Thread on highlight the process that starts with nature and Category: 3D awareness of the issues surrounding global Fabric ends with economic gain. Using yarn, I wanted to Artist: Maddy Day warming and gives the viewer an insight into the Category: Mixed Media & Textiles draw attention to the irony of those who claim to School: St George’s Anglican underlying reality of mankind’s greed. The hands be against animal cruelty yet turn a blind eye when hold coral, oil and a collection of coins. The bright, Artist: Sofia Ampil Grammar School there is a profit to be made. ominous colours of the coral show a magical world School: Prendiville Catholic under the sea and suggest its destruction. College

Title: On the shoulders My work references the people who have made an Title: Straight Flush After studying coral bleaching causes and effects, 77 of giants impact on the way I view the world. In undertaking 82 Medium: Ceramics I decided to make an artwork that focusses on the the process of painting my body, I mirror these sources of global warming. I have identified four of Medium: Video and Still Images Category: 3D artists and acknowledge them for helping me these factors in my piece: the manufacturing of oil, Category: Digital “make up” who I am. Artist: Georgia Gubelich steel, coal and plastic. The coral is skeletal white, Artist: Paulina Gamez-Villarreal School: St George’s Anglican unifying the work. The title reflects the suits in a School: Prendiville Catholic Grammar School deck of cards and the game of poker. Ultimately, the rich man’s gamble could mean the death of our College precious wildlife.

Title: Bleached, Black and My artwork is a commentary on the plight of Title: Vengeance of the Sea Having researched the existing issue of “coral bleaching” the world’s oceans. Each bowl within the series and making a link to the human activities that contribute 78 Bagged 83 Medium: Ceramics represents one of the three major issues which to the possible extinction of corals, I have decided to raise Medium: Resin, Glass, Hebel are negatively impacting on the health of these vital Category: 3D this question: what if the tables were turned and the corals Stone and Found ecosystems: rising ocean temperatures, pollution, were instead a threat to mankind? The sculpture, taking a Artist: Syuen Lee human form, conveys the possible pain felt by the corals Objects and waste matter. The beauty of these vast School: St George’s Anglican during coral bleaching through its facial expression. Much Category: 3D bodies of water often masks the actual severity like how the underwater organisms are unable to escape of our current situation, a perspective I wanted to Grammar School their inevitable fate of succumbing to coral bleaching Artist: Jenna Newton illuminate within my work. due to global warming, the surrounding waves around School: Prendiville Catholic the sculpture “trap” it. The organisms, being incapable of speaking up against what is happening around them, College grow on the human in a silent, yet visually loud protest.

Title: A Tale of Time My piece explores the vibrancy and naivety of youth, contrasted with the slow fade out that time 79 Medium: Oil on MDF 84 brings along with a sense of calm and closure. My Category: 2D technique has been inspired by the artist Joshua Artist: Selena Ballesteros Miels, who provided a basis for my painting style and the colour scheme to explore the different This item has School: Presbyterian Ladies’ moods. been withdrawn College

Title: Masquerade This artwork represents the masquerade of beauty Title: Identity Glitch My piece explores the issue of losing our personal 80 Medium: Oil on Canvas that we, as humans, disguise ourselves behind. The 85 Medium: MDF Board, Paper, identity in relation to our context. I presented this flowers portray an impossible expectation fuelled by concept as a “glitch in humanity” referring to how Gesso and Acrylic Category: 2D a social construct of perfection, blinding the woman humans have lost touch with their cultural, social, Artist: Jasmin Embleton to her own true face. Category: 3D and personal identity. The notion of globalisation School: Presbyterian Ladies’ Artist: Olivia Ickeringill was a source of inspiration, defined as the process College School: St Hilda’s Anglican of international integration arising from trade, technology, and media. I focussed on how through School for Girls technology our true identity is hidden, warped or highly contrived.

20 21 86 Title: Suburban Survival My work explores the relationship between 91 Title: Maralinga Maralinga is a monumental event in Australian Medium: Fabric Ink screen-print humans and animals in urban environments. I was Medium: Acrylic on Wood history that has been inadequately explored. stylistically and conceptually influenced by pieces Only after travelling to the remote communities in on Linen, Thread, by street artist Roa. The drawing of the sugar glider Category: 2D Central Australia did I hear about the controversial Beads, Sequins and was adapted from an online image: Retrieved April Artist: Michaela Savage 1952 nuclear bomb tests. I realised that like Found Drawer 2017, from Sugar Glider Care: http://sugarglidercare. School: St Mary’s Anglican myself, many were ignorant of the horrific impacts Category: Mixed Media & Textiles org/breeding-babies/. The straw-like environment on the Ngaatajarra, Pitjantjara and Spinifex Girls’ School Artist: Anne Leven-Marcon was adapted from an online image: Retrieved April people at the time. I wanted to convey the harsh 2017, from RUF Briquetting Systems: https://www. reality of the effects the tests had on these School: St Hilda’s Anglican ruf-briquetter.com/materials/wood-a-non-wood- Indigenous communities. School for Girls biomass/straw-briquetting.

Title: Frustration My artwork explores different depths of frustration Title: “Love Will Trump Hate” The latest American election has sparked a 87 Medium: Biro Pen and Acrylic through a self-portrait. It has been inspired by 92 Medium: Photography and sudden rise in attention on practically every social Andy Quilty and my own feelings of frustration felt topic regarding religion, gender, sexual orientation, Category: 2D Textiles throughout this year. I used a scribble technique to ethnicity and disabilities. With Donald Trump being Artist: Harrison Bancroft express my emotions. Category: Mixed Media & Textiles voted in as President of the United States, myself School: St Mark’s Anglican Artist: Danielle Strahan and millions of others were shocked by just how Community School School: St Mary’s Anglican many people, including the new president of this influential country, still have discriminating values. Girls’ School I have used modern and different styles to convey my thoughts on these issues.

Title: Growth, Decay Time is one of life’s few constants. The concept Title: Shadow and Light We were instructed to use any media to create a 88 and You of time as a constant progression created a basis 93 Medium: Acrylic highly original expression of Art and Self, with a for the thought and meaning behind my piece. I focus on Skies exploration and research of media, Medium: Chalk Pastel, Oil, Pen, wished to visually intertwine time, humanity and Category: 2D linear and atmospheric perspective, styles and Fabric and Wood nature, while contrasting loss and aging against Artist: Frances Macapili examples. Our final artwork was to have a ‘skies’ burning life’s beauty and growth. The central Celtic School: St Norbert College landscape and environment theme in own choice Category: 2D triskelion symbol holds multiple meanings which of media. William Turner was my inspiration, for Artist: Natasha Brandon are carried through the piece including: life, death mood and light. and rebirth, past, present and future, as well as School: St Mark’s Anglican daughter, mother and grandmother. Community School

Title: Twisting the Still Life Based on the theme “Still life - with a Difference” Title: Phase in Time We were instructed to use any media to create a 89 Medium: Oil on Canvas I examined many objects which can be found in 94 Medium: Watercolour highly original expression of Art and Self, with a a standard art class still life set up. The wooden focus on Skies exploration and research of media, Category: 2D doll for drawing and the most endeared avocado Category: 2D linear and atmospheric perspective, styles and Artist: Angelique De Villiers eventually became the focus of my explorations. Artist: Kritsana Na Ayudhya examples. Our final artwork was to have a ‘skies’ School: St Mark’s Anglican The numerous “avo-dolls” took on a life of their School: St Norbert College landscape and environment theme in own choice Community School own, spinning out of control in a splattered vortex, of media. losing their grip on life, in a not so “still” life.

Title: Just as Lethal My work communicates social commentaries Title: True Light We were asked to create a self-portrait of our 90 Medium: Acrylic on Wood and through a series of photos, film and painting. I 95 Medium: Acrylic eyes, lips, landscape and the sky. This was to be wished to convey the impact that verbal abuse a unique realistic or abstracted painting, drawing Digital USB and bullying has on children and teenagers, by Category: 2D inspiration from the artist Chuck Close. Category: Digital portraying it through physical abuse. The idea Artist: Felicity Plewright Artist: Ashleigh Hunter was to draw the audience through the captivating School: St Norbert College School: St Mary’s Anglican black background and isolated subjects emerging through the light. I wanted the audience to reflect Girls’ School on their own values and ask questions about the way they treat the people around them.

22 23 96 Title: Da Vinci Zentangle My work is a combination of Leonardo da Vinci’s 101 Title: Turn on the light “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of Medium: Charcoal and Fineliner sketch of a woman, with a twist - being the Medium: Ceramics, Glaze and times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” exciting zentangle patterned hair. I used charcoal My artwork is a representation of what can happen on Paper Enamel Paint to recreate the traditional style of his artwork, and if you let the darkness consume you - if you, so to Category: 2D finaliser on the zentangle hair. The inspiration for Category: 3D speak, forget to turn on the light. Artist: Madeline McAllan the zentangle hair came from nature, referencing Artist: Adam Scriven the many botanicals around my house, such as School: St Stephen’s School, School: St Stephen’s School, rosemary, string of pearls, lilies and many more. Carramar Duncraig

Title: Generations My artwork is a self-portrait, highlighting the intimacy Title: Atrocity Society’s expectation of women is battering and 97 Medium: Pencil and Charcoal between my appearance and my personality. The 102 Medium: Oil on Canvas butchering to anyone’s self confidence. Influenced black and white pencil medium creates simplistic by Egon Schiele, the bruised mulberry tones and on Paper Category: 2D drama in my work. It was challenging for me to restrained peach flecks are alluding to the origins of Category: 2D manipulate the photograph (taken by a friend) into Artist: Gabrielle Baker torment and inequality females have received. The Artist: Jessica Smith the drawing medium as it was difficult to accept my School: Santa Maria College ability of women to set examples of self-confidence School: St Stephen’s School, flaws and understand my insecurities all the while and persistence in themselves can have a lasting building my confidence. impact on others, but whether one chooses to be Carramar affected by expectations or embrace their own beauty is the real, life-long question.

Title: Titania, Ophelia and My work shows the relationship between classical Title: Forbidden Fruit My artwork explores how actions can lead to 98 Miranda Shakespearean female characters and modern 103 Medium: Coloured Pencil damaging consequences. The notion of either women. Using my sister as the subject, I strived growth or destruction through the representation of Medium: Photography to display the beauty of each character and how Category: 2D the apple and the ribs looks at our lost relationship Category: Digital each and everyone of us can embody these Artist: Pippa Johns with Eden and reminds us of our original sin. Artist: Tess Whittle classical ideals of beauty and mould it to our own School: Santa Maria College School: St Stephen’s School, experiences. Carramar

Title: Roll the Dice Today, personalities have become as probable as Title: H.M.N My painting aims to focus on people’s 99 Medium: Plaster and Acrylic a role of a dice. Emotions have become a game of 104 Medium: Oil understanding of personal choices and attempting chance. The life-sized faces indented in each side to achieve the seemingly impossible. On Mirror of the cube embody different human emotions. Category: 2D contemporary social grounds, most people have Category: 3D The cube signifies one’s emotions when faced Artist: Kimberley Lin become liberated to express themselves without Artist: Gabriella Bechard with society and the outcomes when faced with School: Santa Maria College being directly oppressed. However, the cycle of School: St Stephen’s School, different situations. The mirrors represent fragility hypocrisy continues as society perseveres to label and the gaps in-between are the brokenness and those who express themselves in the name of “not Duncraig show that things don’t fit perfectly like a puzzle. being labelled”, hence the impossibility.

Title: Humanity Today’s society seems to place value on the ideal Title: Struggle Against This self-portrait has been composed to comment 100 Medium: Ceramics figure and on women having to be perfect, though 105 Conformity on the idea of conformity. The main figure has a in reality some are slim and some are curvy, some screaming facial expression and is composed of Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Category: 3D are light and others are dark. But they don’t always bright colours throughout which represents an Artist: Leah Nesbitt show the inside. This is what brought me to the Category: 2D individual and their struggle to stay their unique self. School: St Stephen’s School, concept of creating the “Humanity” sculpture. The Artist: Ashleigh Willmott The grey hands and paint imposing on the portrait Duncraig message brings an awareness of how we feel and School: Schools of Isolated are representative of how mainstream media and how our heart controls the life inside of us. society pressurise people with expectations that and Distance Education cause everyone to look and act the same.

24 25 106 Title: Still Life A still life painting using acrylics on canvas. 111 Title: Beneath our Surfaces “Sometimes monsters are invisible, and sometimes Medium: Acrylic Medium: Pencil on Paper demons attack you from the inside... pain does not need to be seen to be felt.” - Emm Roy. My Category: 2D Category: 2D artwork represents the incredibly negative habit Artist: Ruby Cownie Artist: Ria Westwood our society practises on a daily basis: the practice School: Scotch College School: Serpentine Jarrahdale of judging a book by its cover. This idea has been shown through the pairing of portraits with one Grammar School face representing what an outsider sees, and the other what is truly beneath the surface.

Title: Pots & Bottles This still life captures the growth of nature inside a Title: Hidden Trouble in My work depicts the Amazon rainforest and 107 Medium: Acrylic manufactured man-made object. The dominance 112 Paradise highlights the impact of humans on our planet, of the color red emphasizes the weakness of conveying the negative effects they inflict on the Category: 2D Medium: Watercolour nature and how it is victim to humanity. environment. I focus on the destruction of the Artist: Seb Hasluck Category: 2D Amazon rainforest which is rapidly being cut down School: Scotch College Artist: Eva Gill due to colonisation, agriculture and illegal logging. School: Seton Catholic College It shows an aesthetically pleasing scene, whilst hidden in the corner is the threat: a city symbolising humans destroying the rainforest along with the Amazonian tribes and natural species.

Title: Cactus Camera This contemporary art piece was created with the Title: Shipping Containers My artwork is a mixed media, urban landscape 108 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas objective of portraying “Still life”, expressing realism 113 Medium: Mixed Media depicting the shipping containers at Fremantle to an extent. Drawing inspiration from Van Gogh’s Port. I have used pen, ink and watercolour paint. I Category: 2D “Flowers”, I have expressed my artwork through the Category: 2D feel that the Port is easily recognizeable to anyone Artist: Jett Stevenson mediums of set up, consisting of a cactus, camera Artist: Madeline Parlane familiar with the area. School: Scotch College and books. I have emphasised simplicity as well as School: Seton Catholic College utilising subtle but impactful imagery to express my personal morality.

Title: Laughter is youthful The drawing commentates on the representation Title: What Lies Beneath My work is a monochromatic piece that alludes 109 Medium: Charcoal on Paper of age in our society. I aimed to depict the sense 114 Medium: Oil to a facade of one’s self. The all-encompassing of age being directly linked to the emotions and fabric creates the illusion of a human form. “What Category: 2D attitudes one exhibits through one’s life. I believe Category: 2D Lies Beneath” reveals that underneath the physical Artist: Akshay Bishnulall that to be “young” is not about the years that have Artist: Lauryn Wrightstone form there is always more to a person than our School: Serpentine Jarrahdale passed, but rather the happiness and light that you School: Seton Catholic College protective outer layer suggests. In this oil painting Grammar School share with others. I utilised subtle variation in tone to create smooth realistic-looking folds in such a way that a three- dimensional element is present.

Title: Femininity The artwork discusses the perspective on women Title: Knitting Solider Knitting is portrayed as a feminine hobby by the 110 Medium: Pencil on Paper being strong and independent even though we are 115 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas media with, for example, an old women usually females. Within today’s patriarchal society women knitting to pass her time. Through this painting Category: 2D are discriminated against for their femininity. Category: 2D I wanted to break that stereotype by portraying Artist: Shanae Simpson Feminism is still a controversial issue within the 21st Artist: Praisy Peter a soldier, someone considered to be strong and School: Serpentine Jarrahdale century; women are still unequal and fighting for School: unemotional, knitting a pink scarf. Grammar School their rights.

26 27 116 Title: Bald is Beautiful There’s no denying we live in a society obsessed 121 Title: Radiance My artwork is based on inspirational texts as shown Medium: Acrylic and Oil on with beauty. “Bald is Beautiful” is a subtle criticism Medium: Charcoal and with my chosen quotes in the first artwork: “It was on how the cosmetic industry has altered our only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, Canvas Watercolour expectations to become idealistic. I want to invite but like morning light it scattered the night and Category: 2D viewers to feel trepidatious towards the capitalism Category: Mixed Media & Textiles made the day worth living.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald. Artist: Mike Ren of the beauty industry. The juxtaposition between Artist: Courtney Littlefair Not everyone takes the time to appreciate a smile viewers’ expectations and the face I painted creates that is freely given. School: Shenton College School: Thornlie Christian irony: areas normally smeared with makeup are College portrayed hideously, questioning why we choose to mask ourselves through layers of paint.

Title: et flori decorem (Latin Title: Turmoil I decided to focus my art on the emotional effects I was tasked with the theme of “Life and Death” for “fading beauty”) 117 Medium: Pencil on Paper of war on soldiers because I wanted to bring to 122 and was fascinated with the idea of contrasting light a topic that is not often talked about. War Medium: Oil worlds. So I portrayed a young girl who has died Category: 2D veterans often suffer from PTSD’s; this is common Category: 2D and is being “decomposed” by the lush green Artist: Caitlin Reynolds knowledge yet there is often a stigma surrounding Artist: Dominique Sharp forestry around her, that is abundant with life. It is the topic, making it harder for them to ask for help essentially a portrayal of the decomposition of life School: Shenton College School: Thornlie Christian and discuss what they’re struggling with. through life and how all beauty fades and we return College to the Earth from which we came.

Title: Saphron Isolation leads to loneliness. Having a personal Title: The light beyond the This piece is of a girl that is suffering in a certain 118 Medium: Mixed Media space leads to contemplation. 123 darkness situation. She is starting to see the “end of the tunnel” so to speak. She has hope that it’s all going Medium: Charcoal Category: 2D to be okay. Artist: Edward Barrett Category: 2D School: Swan Valley Anglican Artist: Josh Stevenson Community School School: Thornlie Christian College

Title: Confronted Appropriated from Banksy’s “Flower Thrower”, Title: In the lap of luxury Throughout first-world countries, goods that are 119 Medium: Aerosol Spray on Mirror my artwork challenges the perception of being 124 Medium: Mixed Media considered consumable luxury items are taxed at a anonymous. higher rate than essentials required for healthy, safe Category: 2D Category: Mixed Media & Textiles living. Among those items considered a luxury are Artist: Cameron Machenzie Artist: Patricia Aspera feminine sanitary products, which are deemed non- School: Swan Valley Anglican School: Wanneroo Secondary essential to a healthy lifestyle. By hand embroidering Community School College a sanitary pad, an art-form traditionally associated with stature and wealth, I have transformed it into the luxury item governments deem it to be.

Title: Worlds Apart Innocence symbolises hope. Control shatters Title: Expressive study My artwork is a stylistic representation of my partner 120 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas dreams. 125 of figure using expressive paint techniques. I have adapted the styles of the contemporary portrait artist Del Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Category: 2D Kathryn Barton through my use of distorted Board Artist: Trisha Patel facial features and VOKA’s heavy and expressive Category: 2D School: Swan Valley Anglican applications of paint. Community School Artist: Chayanne Mallette School: Wanneroo Secondary College

28 29 126 Title: Action Man Strikes Action Men dominate the domains of men: from Again plastic toys in the nursery to footballers on the television, we are exposed to images that sustain ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Medium: Photography and Digital and propagate images of maleness which are open Manipulation to social critique. We must question: are these the Category: Digital men we want, or the men deemed as necessary ART TEACHERS AND STUDENTS FROM: Artist: Zynda Anderson for maintaining the status quo of a consumerist All Saints’ College Kalamunda Senior High School St Mark’s Anglican Community School society where men are as disposable as nappies? Ashdale Secondary College Kingsway Christian College St Mary’s Anglican Girls’ School School: Warnbro Community Australian Islamic College Kolbe Catholic College St Norbert College High School Balcatta Senior High School Lake Joondalup Baptist College St Stephen’s School (Carramar) Lumen Christi College St Stephen’s School (Duncraig) Canning Vale College Mandurah Baptist College Santa Maria College Chisholm Catholic College Mandurah Catholic College Schools of Isolated and Distance Education Title: Soft Molecular Sprout I have been working with a 60mm macro lens Comet Bay College Melville Senior High School Scotch College looking at textures and un-see-able elements 127 Medium: Photography Corpus Christi College Newman College Serpentine Jarrahdale Grammar School of plants. This image is from a series that were Category: Digital Gilmore College Penrhos College Seton Catholic College made under studio lights using flash guns. The cut Hale School Perth College Shenton College Artist: Amy Bailey flowers were collected from the local environment Iona Presentation College Perth Modern School Swan Valley Anglican Community School School: Warnbro Community and, using a shallow depth of field and base ISO Irene McCormack Catholic College Prendiville Catholic College Thornlie Christian College High School settings, I was able to achieve remarkably high John Curtin College of the Arts Presbyterian Ladies’ College Wanneroo Secondary College resolution, revealing the fine textures and delicate John XXIII College St George’s Anglican Grammar School Warnbro Community High School structures of the plants. John Wollaston Anglican Community School St Hilda’s Anglican School for Girls Curators: Photographer: EXHIBITION: Title: Surrealist Whims This photograph attempts to capture the Julianne Mackay Peter Stone – The Big Picture Factory Exhibition coordinator – Josephine Christmass 128 photographic experiments carried out by Salvador Carl Galin (Catalogue and Gala Awards Night) St George’s Cathedral Events Team Medium: Photography St George’s Cathedral Staff Dali. There are no digital tricks or software Category: Digital manipulation, just a raw photograph taken under Artist: Wanvisa Kantum controlled conditions. Sixty photographs were judging panel: SPECIAL THANKS: LAUNCH EVENT School: Warnbro Community taken to achieve this final image. Yvonne Doherty Volunteer Installation Team VOLUNTEERS: High School Steven James Finch Tina Schwarz, George Groenveld and Jess Hart the Cathedral Catering Team Dr Julia Morris

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