The Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art
Senior Visual Art students have the opportunity to enter The Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art. These awards recognise and promote excellence in senior Visual Art education and is open to Queensland state and non-state secondary school students.
This program has been in existence since 1990 with the purpose of raising community awareness of the Visual Arts and the degree of sophistication in concepts, diversity of technical competence, and the high standard of visual art education in Queensland secondary schools.
The program comprises of:
- the submission and judging of three digital photographs of student art work and supporting information
- regional exhibitions showcasing submitted works
- regional workshops for selected students
- an exhibition of awarded works at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.
Energies Art Exhibition
Energies is an exhibition which showcases artworks created by senior students from across the Gold Coast. Selected student works are professionally framed and presented in a month long exhibition displayed at the Gold Coast Arts Centre, Bundall.
Works on show include varying artistic media ranging from installation and video art to painting and drawing. There is always a wide range of subject matter and diverse themes exploring cultural, emotional and global views as seen by our emerging artists.
Insights Art Exhibition
Students’ aspirations are often limited by their motivation and knowledge of their
capabilities. It was from this notion that Insights was born.
Insights enables students to exhibit their artworks in a gallery space, and learn the processes related to exhibition including; framing, marketing, curatorial expectations, health & safety requirements and public relations.
This exhibition was created as a way to authenticate the student learning process while allowing students to recognise they have the ability to become ‘artists’ rather than ‘art students’. For many it will be their first foray into public exhibition and may act as the catalyst to more than one successful career. The links forged in the school setting are merely the beginning of a long journey by students to unknown destinations where the only limit is the imagination.
Lifelong learning begins, but never ends, in school.
