Towards the end of 2005 North
Lakes State College had their first artist-in-residence at the
college. The artist was Lesa
Hepburn. Justin had worked with her before and she had
generously donated her time to work with the students for a whole
semester. Students created handmade books with natural fibers,
made book art sculpture, constructed huge
paper insect wings with pulp painting technique, made book art
jewelry, giant paper tree trunks, fiber insects and insect
drawings and range of other fiber based artworks that has a insect
theme to it.
The works were exhibited in the middle of 2006.
The exhibition went for a month at Pine Rivers Regional Gallery
and was a huge success. The show will be exhibited again at the
beginning of this year in the school's very own mini gallery. The
building of the senior campus contains a sculpture courtyard and a
purpose built art gallery.
The artist in residence that Justin had last year (2005) is also
installing the work in the front the college in early February.
This is a huge sculptural piece that has lighting, solar panels
and fabricated seats based on the students' design. The whole
project was a collaboration between the artist and a small group
of our Year 10 students. It's quiet large and required an
engineers report. Not something that your average school could do
without the funding. This was funded through a grant that Justin
applied for and got in 2005. Most of the components will be
prefabricated off site. Watch this page for photos.
