ARTEXPRESS goes virtual
The best artworks by NSW HSC students can still be experienced at ARTEXPRESS this year despite COVID-19 disruptions thanks to a new virtual reality exhibition.
10 June 2020
Fifty artworks from the 2019 HSC Visual Arts practical examination have been selected for the virtual exhibition, where viewers can experience the artworks as though they are walking through an actual gallery.
Minister for Education and Early Childhood Learning Sarah Mitchell said that ARTEXPRESS is the Oscars of the HSC art world and is happy students still get to display their work.
“With galleries in Sydney and the regions hosting or planning to host artworks from the class of 2019 forced to close because of the COVID 19 pandemic, organisers had to find a new way to allow our best art students to exhibit their work,” Ms Mitchell said.
“From today, everyone can go online to enjoy 50 exceptional student artworks across 12 visual art forms.
“The ARTEXPRESS exhibition is incredibly important, allowing our best students to receive recognition for their work and provides exposure to start careers.
“Artists like Ben Quilty, David Griggs, McLean Edwards, Melissa Chiu and Jasper Knight were all hung at ARTEXPRESS, one of NSW's most popular exhibitions.
“The technology used is amazing, artworks are placed in a virtual exhibition that you can move around and the detail is to a level that you can see individual brushstrokes.”
The works – from students in 29 government schools and 21 non-government schools – include painting, drawing, photomedia, sculpture, ceramics, time-based works, designed objects, documented forms, printmaking, textiles and fibre and graphic design.
The technical developers, Michael Rampe and Peter Reeves, captured images of the artworks through a process called photogrammetry that allows viewers to examine the artworks in exceptional detail as 3D objects from 360 degrees.
‘Rampe Realistic Imaging’ performed all 3D imaging, high resolution photography and website development, including the virtual reality components. Michael Rampe and Peter Reeves, co-founders of ‘Pedestal 3D Pty Ltd’, provided this software as a service platform for delivery of the 3D components of the website. Peter Reeves exhibited in ARTEXPRESS in 2010.
Almost 450 students from across NSW were nominated for the 2020 ARTEPXRESS series of exhibitions from 8,552 artworks submitted by visual arts students for the 2019 HSC.
The ARTEXPRESS Virtual 2020 exhibition can be accessed at artexpress.vr.artsunit.nsw.edu.au.
ARTEXPRESS Virtual 2020 is supported by Teachers Mutual Bank.
Video – Welcome to ARTEXPRESS Virtual 2020
Duration – 1:35
Sarah Mitchell
I’m delighted to launch the inaugural ARTEXPRESS Virtual exhibition.
From today [10 June] you can view 50 amazing student artworks selected from the 2019 Higher School Certificate Visual Arts students in a virtual gallery space. Painting, drawing, photo-media, sculpture, ceramics, designed objects, documented forms, printmaking, textiles and fibre and graphic design.
ARTEXPRESS is a national artistic institution. Since the first public exhibition of student artwork in the late 1950s, it has been the launching pad for some of Australia’s most accomplished artists including Ben Quilty, David Griggs, McLean Edwards and Melissa Chiu.
ARTEXPRESS Virtual reflects the innovative thinking of our arts students in NSW on a technologically advanced platform. Viewers can examine artworks in exceptional detail that have been captured using 3D imagery. With virtual reality headsets, you can interact with the artworks in creative ways that play with scale and movement.
The ARTEXPRESS Virtual exhibition is a timely resource for our students and our teachers who have demonstrated remarkable resilience during challenging and uncertain times, and when one of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been limited access to physical gallery spaces, this really is a celebration of creativity that showcases the talents of our 21st-century learners and highlights our commitment to excellence in arts education.
So please take a look and be inspired by the ARTEXPRESS Virtual exhibition.
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ARTEXPRESS 2020 virtual exhibition artist information
Government schools
| Artist name | School | Title of work | Form |
|---|---|---|---|
Monika Haselhuhn |
Bowral High School Southern Highlands |
Forget Me Not |
Ceramics |
Rebecca Risteska |
Bowral High School Southern Highlands |
Sticks and Stones… |
Collection of work |
Michaela Barnert |
Cheltenham Girls High School | Topographic Morphism |
Photomedia |
Zak Kalivas |
Dulwich High School of Visual Arts & Design |
CTRL+C |
Time-based forms |
Ngoc Gia Han Huynh |
Fairvale High School |
I will go before you |
Photomedia |
Victor-Sokphan Ou |
Fairvale High School |
Pulcha Tacita Caelum (Beautiful Silent Sky) |
Painting |
Georgia Verastegui |
Figtree High School |
Pride |
Drawing |
Tina Yip |
Hornsby Girls High School |
Trompe l’oeil |
Painting |
Lauren Wang |
James Ruse Agricultural High School |
de faced. |
Drawing |
Sama Padmini Cooper |
Katoomba High School |
Sonder |
Drawing |
Rupert Osborn |
Killara High School |
Lost in Utility |
Ceramics |
Caleb Barnes |
Lithgow High School |
“Gargoyle for Sydney Harbour Bridge” |
Sculpture |
Ben Tavita |
Lurnea High School |
Displaced |
Collection of work |
Elliot Christmas |
Mosman High School |
Careless Consumption |
Collection of work |
Chloe Arathoon |
Narrabeen Sports High School |
Bleached |
Ceramics |
Sophie Zhang |
North Sydney Girls High School |
IMAGINE if you could buy freedom |
Collection of work |
Emily Hick |
Northern Beaches Secondary College Freshwater |
Threads of Nature |
Painting |
Talija Hrnjak |
Northern Beaches Secondary College Freshwater |
Displaced Identities |
Printmaking |
Moe Iwasawa |
Northern Beaches Secondary College Manly Campus |
ArchModernist |
Designed objects |
Dylan Welgemoed |
Pennant Hills High School |
Silver Screen |
Drawing |
Shantelle Morrison |
Prairiewood High School |
Femininity and the Curve |
Painting |
Bonnie Dong |
St George Girls High School |
Departure |
Painting |
Lemah Orya |
St Marys Senior High School |
Mending broken things after the Afghan War |
Sculpture |
Kimberley Cooney |
Strathfield Girls High School |
Biomimicry |
Sculpture |
Jade Abrahams |
Terrigal High School |
After the Things of Nature |
Drawing |
Melanie Hain |
Warners Bay High School |
Fragility |
Ceramics |
Tahnee Marriott |
Warners Bay High School |
The Nature of Ambiguity |
Photomedia |
Sophie Tilling |
Woolooware High School |
In his shoes |
Drawing |
Hayden Johnson-De Silva |
Wyndham College |
A.Y.P.O.N. (are you privileged, or not? |
Photomedia |
Non-government schools
| Artist name | School | Title of work | Form |
|---|---|---|---|
Hannah-Kate Proctor |
Belmont Christian College |
Detachment from Her Origin |
Sculpture |
Madison Andrew |
Caroline Chisholm College |
The Block |
Ceramics |
Saachi Owen |
Emanuel School |
Idle |
Time-based forms |
Elvira Berzins |
Frensham School |
Briviba (Freedom) |
Collection of work |
Elena Kokkaris |
International Grammar School |
In Hollywood no one can know anything… |
Photomedia |
Hugo Morgan |
Knox Grammar School |
My Digitality |
Documented forms |
William Wang |
Knox Grammar School |
Shanghai – Layered and Remembered |
Printmaking |
Catherine Jones |
Pymble Ladies’ College |
Water and Wind |
Designed objects |
Chloe Lambert |
Queenwood |
An Ethereal Escape |
Photomedia |
Max Russell |
Reddam House |
Don’t think twice |
Time-based forms |
Saskia Teale |
Roseville College |
‘In-finite’ |
Painting |
Louis Callanan |
St Ignatius’ College |
That which is familiar – a visual verse |
Drawing |
Samuel Havranek |
St Luke’s Grammar School |
Consumer Affair |
Graphic design |
Harriet Murphy |
St Scholastica’s College Glebe |
“With an apple I will astonish Paris” Cezanne’s Table |
Painting |
Sabine Hattersley |
St Scholastica’s College Glebe |
Kokoro no ikimono (Creatures of the heart) |
Textile & fibre |
Eli Narev |
Sydney Grammar School |
Ex Camera |
Sculpture |
Jerome Ayad |
Sydney Grammar School |
“Deep Down” |
Sculpture |
Bodhi McAllister |
The King’s School |
Eroded by time |
Photomedia |
Jordan Williams |
The King’s School |
I Am |
Collection of Work |
Zachary Elphick |
The Scots College |
Escaping the Psychie |
Sculpture |
Joshua Abbott |
Trinity Grammar School |
“The angel in the marble” |
Ceramics |
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