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5 December, 2023
Artworks reach state’s peak
THREE Cairns art students will exhibit at the prestigious Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane as recognition of their exceptional artistic talent.
Phuong Le and Imogen Loukas of Cairns State High School and Dante Brim of Trinity Bay State High School were among the 37 Queensland senior students to receive excellence awards at this year’s creative generation excellence awards in visual art.
The winning students’ works were selected from 459 submissions from 177 schools across the state with the excellence award winners’ work to be exhibited at the QAGOMA from 27 April to 25 August 2024.
The annual awards program recognises and promotes excellence in senior visual art education at state and non-state schools.
Cairns State High School was one of only four schools across the state to claim two excellence awards each. One student from each region also received a regional encouragement award and this year it was awarded to Harriet Mills, also of Cairns State High School.
Of the 459 submissions, 104 students from across Queensland received commendation awards including three students from Trinity Bay State High School, Ci’ellah Anu, Lilly Suli Brock and Shirley Vue, together with Lora Xiong of Good Counsel College (Innisfail) and Jennifer Thiele of St Monica’s College (Cairns),
Education Minister Grace Grace said the quality of works this year was a testament to the exceptional artistic abilities of Queensland’s secondary school students.
“The opportunity to have work shown in QAGOMA is once-in-a-lifetime for these aspiring young artists,” she said.
• Dante Brim: “Shield Protection” (installation). This installation honours the knowledge and legacy of my ancestors that live through me. The images are all taken in 1938 as part of the Yarrabah Mission records. The images are of my ancestors Wallace, Margaret, and George Singleton.”
• Phuong Le: “AI Realities” (video). “Al Realities” is a non-narrative, experimental short film exploring the new and ever evolving power of Al and technology using ChatGPT to create ideas (realities) and then creating those ideas into reality using Unreal Engine S (UES).”
• Imogen Loukas: “My curated life” (video). “A film created specifically for viewing on mobile phone devices. All sounds, images and filming were created by me. This work is a combination of my own filming, screen recording, sound editing with the final edit and compositing in final cut pro and exported for phone devices.”
