secrets, the artwork getting near completion

Here are some glimpses of the secret project at Marian College.

invitation for exquisite me exhibition

We invite you to a special event on Refugee Day, Wednesday the 20th June, featuring Artworkk of Students from AMES and music too.

4pm
Granary Cafe,
2 Devonshire Rd,
Sunshine.

The exhibition will continue till July 21.

Aspirations, Hopes and Dreams
Students from the AMES Education Youth Programs of Footscray and St Albans have made cartoons that explore their past experiences and their aspirations, hopes and dreams for the future.

This exhibition has been a collaboration between AMES, Gallery Sunshine Everywhere and the Exquisite Me Project with Artist Debbie Qadri.

Image on Invitation by Sukraj Kaur.

sunshine college portraits move to sunshine library

The self-portraits by Sunshine College students of Ardeer Campus have moved to the Sunshine Library.  Here they are being shown with the bodies all mixed up, to illustrate how we all have shared experiences, interests, hobbies, aspirations and characteristics.

Go and have a look at them, they look very cool!
They are in the children's section in the far left corner of the library.

Thanks to Sunshine Library for the invitation to show them.

Have a look at Exquisite Me  film made of the Sunshine College Students Portraits

The self portraits were painted onto three canvases, so that they could be swapped around to make more portraits of people, as a metaphor for shared experiences and identities. 


The fabulous artists are:  Aaron, Shanae, Gina, Khadija, Caitlin, Duc, Michael, Kayla,  Andrew, Christine, Mohamed,  Skye, Britney, Courtney, Brendonn, Chevan, Francis, Alex, Victoria, Rachel, Colin, and Emily.    
Well done!   You did a great job! and thanks to your teacher Mirjana Vuk-Nikic
Here is the link to the video :

http://youtu.be/NDtx7sxdfqM

Exquisite Me is an arts project that explores the collective experiences, stories and representations of identities of young people in Sunshine and Brimbank. These experiences, stories and representations will be explored during various art and writing workshops run by  community artist Debbie Qadri. The artwork and writing will be displayed as a large collaborative work, in a number of venues in Sunshine, including Gallery Sunshine Everywhere. Some of the artwork and writing will be published in a zine format and also made into an artist’s book for the Sunshine Library. Workshops will be held at schools, community groups and at Council facilities such as the Sunshine Library . 

Thankyou for your support and involvement -  AMES ( Adult Migrant Education Services), Marian College, Ardeer Primary School, Sunshine College, Sunshine Library and  Gallery Sunshine Everywhere. 

The Exquisite Me Project and Gallery Sunshine Everywhere kindly acknowledges the support of the Brimbank City Council Community Grants Program.

www.gallerysunshine.com/www.gallerysunshine.com/

Ardeer primary School grade six tile making

The grade sixes form Ardeer Primary School have made ceramic tiles in sets of three to represent themselves. They are made out of clay and decorated with low relief sculpture and liquid underglazes.
After they are fired they will be much brighter and very colourful.

The tiles were made with the help of Debbie, Susie and Lil. Thanks to the students who took the task very seriously and did their best to make interesting representations of themselves and to make the tiles carefully.

The tiles are drying slowly and will be fired over the school holidays.

This piece of art represents me. I used red, orange, black, purple, blue and brown. I included hair, lips a nose, no ears, t-shirt, pants, shoes, a background and I didn’t draw arms because I’m not good at it.

I had fun doing my artwork. I made a picture of the world because I like to travel. I expressed a lot of things like working with the clay. The Australian Flag represents that I live in Australia. The last bit is meant to be music notes. My favourite part was the clay shaping. I found it difficult to paint the clay.

J.V.

My picture shows a girl jumping on a trampoline while skipping because that is one of my hobbies. My dress is pink and orange because they’re my favourite colours. I want people to think that my artwork is fun and quirky. I think it is really creative.

I found it really fun decorating these tiles and I think we did it to express ourselves. I used so many different colours. I want people to look at my work as someone who wants to fly and knows how to skate boards. I enjoyed making this. It was hard expressing myself.

This is a photo of a cat head. In the middle is the stuff I like to eat and dog feet. I chose a cat head because of my love of cats. I chose these things in the middle because I like eating them. I chose dog feet because I like dogs.

I found it really fun decorating these tiles and I think we did it to express ourselves. I used so many different colours. I want people to look at my work as someone who wants to fly and knows how to skate boards. I enjoyed making this. It was hard expressing myself.

I had a wonderful time painting these tiles as they express my inner self. I used the colours as they are very beautiful. The first tile expresses my enjoyment of gardening. The second tile expressed my love of music and the third tile expresses the joy I get from dancing.

Chrissy

I have had a fun time making these clay tiles. I used different kinds of colours.  The 1^st tile expresses me because I like bears, the 2^nd tile expressed me because I like shopping and the third tile I like drawing. I wish I could try this another time.

Exquisite Me is an arts project that explores the collective experiences, stories and representations of identities of young people in Sunshine and Brimbank. These experiences, stories and representations will be explored during various art and writing workshops run by  community artist Debbie Qadri. The artwork and writing will be displayed as a large collaborative work, in a number of venues in Sunshine, including Gallery Sunshine Everywhere. Some of the artwork and writing will be published in a zine format and also made into an artist’s book for the Sunshine Library. Workshops will be held at schools, community groups and at Council facilities such as the Sunshine Library . 

Thankyou for your support and involvement -  AMES ( Adult Migrant Education Services), Marian College, Ardeer Primary School, Sunshine College, Sunshine Library and  Gallery Sunshine Everywhere. 

The Exquisite Me Project and Gallery Sunshine Everywhere kindly acknowledges the support of the Brimbank City Council Community Grants Program.

www.gallerysunshine.com/www.gallerysunshine.com/

Have a look at Exquisite Me  film made of the Sunshine College Students Portraits

The self portraits were painted onto three canvases, so that they could be swapped around to make more portraits of people, as a metaphor for shared experiences and identities. 

The fabulous artists are:  Aaron, Shanae, Gina, Khadija, Caitlin, Duc, Michael, Kayla,  Andrew, Christine, Mohamed,  Skye, Britney, Courtney, Brendonn, Chevan, Francis, Alex, Victoria, Rachel, Colin, and Emily.    

Well done!   You did a great job! and thanks to your teacher Mirjana Vuk-Nikic

Here is the link to the video :

http://youtu.be/NDtx7sxdfqM

ardeer primary school grade five tiles

Ardeer Primary School making Exquisite Me clay tiles grade fives
The year five students of Ardeer Primary School worked with Debbie, Susie and Lil, to make a representation of themselves over three clay tiles.
The tiles will be displayed sometimes as sets of works by individuals and at other times mixed up with everybody else's to create the idea that we have some shared experiences and similarities.

Thanks to the student's who took this task very seriously and did an excellent job using the clay to make low relief sculptural effects and the liquid underglazes to paint on the colour. We were very impressed. the tiles are drying in a special room at the moment and will be fired in the school holidays.

The tiles were made out of three. It’s head the head of a mouse. The body was a green leafy tree. The legs were meant to be a dragon’s/ All of that was a part of me shown in three tiles.

I like my tiles because I’ve never done this before. I used the colours green, black, purple white and blue because I love these colours. They are awesome. I put a snake tail as my legs because I really like snakes. I did my body as a school uniform because I love school. My first tile is my head.

My first tile is a magic person called a Mage. In the second tile you can see his wings. I have painted my Mage Blue so he can be camouflaged in the sky. He is very tall to rats and spiders. My Mage is so strong he can take down a dragon and a giant.

My artwork is about me and what I love. I put my face in my artwork because I love the way I look. I put my body in it because I am wearing my school uniform and I love my school. I put my feet in it because I love going out in my garden.

My artwork is about me. I put my face in it but have short hair because I have always wanted short hair.  In my body I put my favourite top ad skirt in it. In my legs I did cat feet because I love cats.

My artwork is about me and what I like. In my artwork I found the tree and the head difficult. I enjoyed this because I love clay and paint. In my artwork it represents me, trees and a chicken. In my artwork I think I did well at doing the body and the legs.

I like my tiles because they have lots of colour.  The first tile has the face of a monster. The second tile the body of a dragon. This dragon has wings. The third tile has the legs of a plant.

Joe

My artwork is about me in the sky and me flying with the wind. I made wings, a hat and flowers. I have wiggly legs and a big body. I included lots of colours. I enjoyed doing everything and when they look at my artwork think about themselves. I found it difficult to do the wings and my head. I think I did well with the hair.

My artwork is about what I like and what I love to do. I included an elephant’s head in the first tile. The second tile is the body. I put a school uniform on because I like going to school. The last tile is the feet. I drew my favourite shoe for snow.

My tile artwork is about me. I made dots because I like dots and the reason that my head is a block is because I play a game called Minecraft.  I put two eyes on each side because I like aliens. I have enjoyed doing my tile artwork. Even though I haven’t finished, I still like my artwork.

I did the head of a werewolf because I like werewolves. I used the red, blue and green because they’re my favourite colours. My artwork represents me. I wanted people looking at the artwork to think how creative I am.

I like my tiles because they are all about me. I put a jetpack and wings because I want to fly and I put lightening because I like lightening. It was hard to make but it was fun.

 I used red and yellow because I like them together. I also did the sun because I like staying outside. I did my hair messy because it is always messy. And I also did flowers because they look nice.

Dat

My artwork is about me in heaven. I made my hair like a Mohawk, headphones, necklace, IPod touch, watch and angel wings. My favourite part is when we did the head. I included a Mohawk, angel wings and pants because it looks like me. I did well on my head. I enjoyed making my body. What I found difficult was the head. When people look at my artwork I want them to think about themselves.

Exquisite Me is an arts project that explores the collective experiences, stories and representations of identities of young people in Sunshine and Brimbank. These experiences, stories and representations will be explored during various art and writing workshops run by  community artist Debbie Qadri. The artwork and writing will be displayed as a large collaborative work, in a number of venues in Sunshine, including Gallery Sunshine Everywhere. Some of the artwork and writing will be published in a zine format and also made into an artist’s book for the Sunshine Library. Workshops will be held at schools, community groups and at Council facilities such as the Sunshine Library . 

Thankyou for your support and involvement -  AMES ( Adult Migrant Education Services), Marian College, Ardeer Primary School, Sunshine College, Mother of God Primary School, Sunshine Library and  Gallery Sunshine Everywhere. 

The Exquisite Me Project and Gallery Sunshine Everywhere kindly acknowledges the support of the Brimbank City Council Community Grants Program.

www.gallerysunshine.com/www.gallerysunshine.com/

Have a look at Exquisite Me  film made of the Sunshine College Students Portraits

The self portraits were painted onto three canvases, so that they could be swapped around to make more portraits of people, as a metaphor for shared experiences and identities. 

The fabulous artists are:  Aaron, Shanae, Gina, Khadija, Caitlin, Duc, Michael, Kayla,  Andrew, Christine, Mohamed,  Skye, Britney, Courtney, Brendonn, Chevan, Francis, Alex, Victoria, Rachel, Colin, and Emily.    

Well done!   You did a great job! and thanks to your teacher Mirjana Vuk-Nikic

Here is the link to the video :

http://youtu.be/NDtx7sxdfqM