Sydney-siders, get thee to ArtExpress 2012…

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Part of 'Flourish' by Hanna Clements of Sydney Girls High School
Expressive form: Sculpture

If you live in Sydney and have yet to see the ArtExpress 2012 exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, you have just one week before it’s too late. It is well worth a special trip to the Art Gallery just to see this wonderful exhibition. Trust me on this.

ArtExpress is the annual exhibition of outstanding student artworks developed for the art making component of the Higher School Certificate examination in Visual Arts for 2011. So, for the uninitiated – the artists who make up this exhibition are school students of around 17 years of age, give or take a year.

Every year I am blown away by the artistic talent we have bubbling away within our secondary schools. Have a taster…

'A Collection of Post Cards from Wits End' by Lisa Koesterke of Mullumbimby High School
Expressive form: Collection of works

'A Collection of Post Cards from Wits End' (Detail) by Lisa Koesterke

'Healthy Living' by Anna Zhong of James Ruse Agricultural High School
Expressive form: Painting

'Stigmata' by Georgia McGlennon of Ascham School
Expressive form: Photomedia

'...a thousand words' by Christopher Fiorini of St Patrick's College, Strathfield
Expressive form: Photomedia

ArtExpress is a free exhibition and will be on show at the Art Gallery of New South Wales until Sunday, 22 April 2012.

(All images sourced from here)

Benja Harney Enters the (Paper) Fold…

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The Sydney Morning Herald published a wonderful article about the very talented Benja Harney this morning. Benja is a Sydney-based paper artist. Although he originally trained in graphic design, he now creates amazing works out of paper. The magic he creates with little more than a scalpel and some paper is just fantastic!

The accordion was part of a solo exhibition at Object Gallery

These graphic pieces were commissioned as part of a student brochure for University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

These white images form part of a campaign for Travel & Leisure

Sia commissioned Benja to create a cape for her album cover

Part of a commissioned campaign for MasterCard

Hermes always has the most beautiful window displays. Now I know why!  Part of a commissioned campaign in 2009

Benja Harney is currently exhibiting some of his work at Here Today Gone Tomorrow, Life’s Fragile Nature at NG Art Gallery, Chippendale, until 7 April, 2012.

(All images sourced from Benja Harney’ blog here).