Congratulations to Corinda creatives, Tahlia and Queendy, who were both awarded Excellence Awards in Visual Arts at the recent Brisbane Regional Exhibition. They will have the honour of their work being hung at Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art's Creative Generation exhibition in 2024. The exhibit showcases 30 outstanding works from more than 500 State and private school entries across Queensland. Our school was the only one in the Brisbane Region to have two students awarded Excellence Awards, along with Angela T, who was also awarded the Regional Encouragement Award.
These works, and others from the entire Visual Art cohort, will be exhibited at our Visual Art and Media Exhibition 'Evolve' on Wednesday 15 November. We look forward to welcoming you there.
Student name: Tahlia Atkinson
Title: Proof of Me
Artwork Medium: Oil painting
Artist's statement: The concept of presence demands a time when there was absence. The transience of life is universally feared, grieved, and speculated. This brings forth the desire for a personal legacy, often through developing a tangible 'proof of existence'. The immortalisation of oneself is garnered in personal possessions; belongings act as a window to the owner. My assemblage gathers such possessions, collectively contributing to my whole portrait, and explores the relationship between material and identity. The larger the collection of belongings, the greater the picture depicted. Simultaneously, these belongings find themselves as tokens of identity wherein their loss can cause a form of grieving. Jarring sections of negative space between the found objects allude to both losing something and objects failing to fully articulate someone's character. With thorough insight, onlookers can construct and devise the identity of myself in which, without such consideration, would otherwise fail to represent anything at all.
Student name: Queendy Tran
Title: Disappearing
Description: An installation composed of a beaded, organza dress suspended in the air and lit to cast beading shadows
Artwork Medium: Installation
Artist's statement: 'Disappearing' focuses on bringing awareness to a significant contributor of human-caused, environmental concerns - Fast Fashion. Through the slow process of making the traditionally inspired dress I have intentionally challenged the concept and process of producing 'Fast Fashion.' Each skirt panel of sheer organza, features hand embroidered imagery, illustrating the once laborious process of making one item of clothing. Sourcing the raw material, spindling, looming, and sewing the garment are processes all painstakingly beaded into the organza. Pre-Industrial Revolution, clothes were often tailored to the individual and designed to last a lifetime. We even cared to repair them when necessary. The contrast of these opaque embroidered illustrations with the sheer dress implies that these sustainable production methods are disappearing. Shadows cast from the dress endeavour to remind the audience that contemporary society's consumption of fast fashion has cast a shadow over the environment and we need to repair it.
