Creative Generation 2019

Zoe Stuart Queensland Academy for Creative Industries (Kelvin Grove) A Collective Subconscious Acrylic on canvas 122 x 154 x 2 cm The Japanese philosophy, The Untamed Mind , explores the subconscious within us, prior to the human instinct that drives us to order the unordered. This painting is the result of my attempt to discover an untamed memory. I filmed a day from my perspective, then randomly took screenshots of the video, narrowing the ‘memory’ into four stills. Through fluid continuous line drawings of these stills, I could un-tame the images and merge them into one. The layering of chaotic lines and vast colour palette reflect my experience of this subconscious memory. Madison Troughton Goondiwindi State High School Detached Mixed media sculpture and photography 110 x 80 x 15 cm The use of muslin pod-like soft sculptures is an extended metaphor for protection and my health, as well as a symbol of my childhood. The family of four pods slung in size increments suggests the order of my siblings, and juxtaposes symbolic analogies between the medical condition endometriosis, as well as the birth control method of condoms. The collective juxtaposition of muslin and latex uterus-like forms symbolises life, protection and detachment, defining my own identity. Links between the multiple forms (my brother and sisters), my hereditary condition and protective materials define me. Jacob Weston Sandgate District State High School I am a (False) Believer Balsa wood, resin, rust and verdigris medium found materials 15 x 150 x 10 cm Religion uses symbols to convey stories and beliefs. Religious iconography influenced my creation of a series of seven makeshift minimalistic altars, places of worship. The altars collectively comment on the other pursuits and ideas we worship, some of them 'false gods'. Nature, fire and faith stand alongside industry, technology, war and commodity. This plays on the idea that we idolise fallacies. The altars are creations of irony, celebrating themes and ideas which descend into self- indulgence, commonly considered sinful or against the ethics of religion.