Artexpress celebrates students’ success at Orange Regional Gallery

Artexpress 2018 is a series of exhibitions featuring outstanding student artworks for the art making component of the HSC Visual Arts course and one of those exhibitions is in Orange from August 25 to September 23.

Orange Mayor Reg Kidd said the exhibition was a must-see for all students currently completing, or thinking about studying a Visual Arts for the HSC.

“These artworks are some of the best in the state,” Cr Kidd said.

“It’s fantastic our students don’t have to travel to metropolitan areas to see the high calibre needed for top marks, or to get inspiration for their own HSC works.

“We’re incredibly fortunate to have this opportunity right here in our own backyard.

“While the exhibition has educational advantages for our current crop of HSC students, it’s also an exhibition most people will find interesting and impressive.”

The exhibition includes 39 works from government and non-government school students from both regional and metropolitan schools throughout the state.

Artexpress 2018 has grown from humble beginnings in the 1950s to a major event in New South Wales.

Orange City Council’s Services Policy Committee Chair Cr Kevin Duffy said art forms of all kinds would be featured.

“This exhibition has been curated by one of our staff members at the gallery and she has chosen to feature some local students,” Cr Duffy said.

“Bailey Armstrong of Oberon High School’s piece Family Portrait Studies will be shown as well as Kinross Wolaroi School’s Tharni-Jo Parkinson’s Face Off sculpture.”

Cr Duffy said the enduring popularity of Artexpress was proof people had a strong interest in and support of, visual art created by young people.

Artexpress is a joint initiative of the NSW Department of Education and the NSW Education Standards Authority with generous support from S&S (associate sponsor) and the Sir William Dobell Art Foundation (patron).

Tharni-Jo Parkinson, Kinross Wolaroi School, Face Off, Sculpture