Student Achievement
Success at 'Next Gen' Award
27 February
A BIG congratulations to Damascus College’s ‘Art Making and Exhibiting’ student from 2024, Brynne Milne, for winning one of only three awards in the Next Gen Exhibition. Brinn’s artwork featured alongside 37 other pieces selected to showcase the skills of regional students who have just completed VCE studies in: Art Creative Practice, Art Making and Exhibiting, Media, Visual Communication Design, Product Design and Technology.
Her winning painting ‘Kairosclerosis’ was created using oil paints on a wooden panel, and defines the moment you realise that you’re currently happy—consciously trying to savour the feeling—which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it’s little more than an aftertaste.
The figure curled up clutching the light (happiness) reflects the unwillingness to let go in fear that the surrounding darkness will be all-consuming; but that desperation to hold on is what results in the cherished moment to dissipate.
The awards night officially opened the exhibition last Friday at the Art Gallery of Ballarat. The night was a wonderful whirlwind of young artists, proud parents and teachers mixed with awe-inspiring artworks.
The ‘Next Gen’ exhibition is free and runs until the 21 April at the Art Gallery of Ballarat.
Come for an insight into the world of young people today, through extraordinary artworks revealing their vision, ideas and skills.
