A group of Year 12 students from Gosford High School and Narara Valley High School have had their artworks selected as part of the ARTEXPRESS showcase.
ARTEXPRESS aims to showcase HSC bodies of work as a high-quality teaching and learning resource, representing best practice in visual arts education. The students who have had their work selected include: Gosford High School’s Zoe Mei Pruksapun with her drawing ‘Look What We Did’; Jordana May with her Photomedia work ‘Synthesis: Homage to Huang Yan’; Keira McLoskey with her sculpture ‘The Girl Who Mistook the Wood For A Hat – Oliver Sacks’; and, Jack Munro with his drawing ‘The Nature of Progress’. Also included were artworks from Narara Valley High School’s Sharni Collins with her documented forms work ‘Remains’; Shavira Maharani’s with her drawing ‘The Void Measures My Connections’; and, Rebekah Murray with her drawing ‘Addicted to False Satisfaction’. Of the 200 artworks selected from this year’s HSC, 103 of them hail from government high schools. In the 31 years since ARTEXPRESS first provided a showcase to celebrate student achievement in visual arts, works across the HSC Visual Arts syllabus have expanded to include drawing, graphic design, painting, printmaking, photomedia, designed objects, textiles and fibre, sculpture, documented forms, ceramics, timebased forms and collection of works.
Media release,
11 Dec 2014
Sven Wright, Department
of Education and
Communities