Exhibition Statement:
Over the course of the two-year program, the IB art program encourages students to take a self guided, inquiry-driven approach to art making rather than following set assignments. This process encourages the development of personal questions, experimentation across media, and documentation of the personal growth of their technical and conceptual skills. The final result, an exhibition that showcases their work together, offering a glimpse into the thinking, risk taking, and discoveries that shaped their creative practices.
Through the discussion of themes, imagery, style, and colour, a shared theme emerged within the students' work and the concept for the exhibition was finalized. The title of this year's exhibition is Authenticity. Exploring themes of identity, memory, perception, and emotional experience, each artist explores how these themes can distort or clarify one’s understanding of reality.
Working in a variety of mediums, the students utilise distortion, juxtaposition, symbolic imagery, and expressive portraiture to translate psychological states into visual form. Their work explores fleeting memory, the instability of perception, the weight of being seen, and the tension between beauty and discomfort. By layering symbolism, dramatic contrast, interactive elements, and rendered figures, the artists create spaces where vulnerability, power, and self-understanding intersect. As a whole, their work reveals how young artists use material experimentation and personal introspection to make intangible experiences real, visible, and relatable.
The collection of works translate the internal experiences of these young artists, creating a compelling visual language. To the artists, while you leave this show with an established collection of work, the skills of initiative, problem solving, research, self awareness, and visual communication you take away from the program are so incredibly valuable and will sustain you in your future endeavors.
Congratulations Elisha, Neo, Audrey, Olive, Reanne, and Simone on a thoughtful and engaging exhibit!
