August 11, 2022
Kingaroy Art Gallery is filled this month with vibrant and enthusiastic art by students from Kingaroy State High School.
This is the 21st year that the Gallery and the KSHS have collaborated to put on an exhibition to showcase the South Burnett’s up-and-coming young artists.
Artworks by students from Year 9 to Year 12 fill the walls in three gallery spaces.
The exhibition was officially opened by South Burnett Regional Council arts portfolio holder Cr Danita Potter on Friday night.
For the second year running, the small ceremony was held in space behind the gallery, near the 1913 Chambers.
This gave proud parents and teachers the opportunity to view an installation of wire figures placed in one of the garden beds.
The small figures, which honour the Anzacs, were created in 2021 by students now in Year 12.
Cr Potter said art should start at the very earliest stages of a person’s life.
She said the annual exhibition provided a very good way for the students to express themselves.
The exhibition includes works across a range of media, from Year 9 sgraffito to clay masks and ceramics, decorated skateboards, digital art and everything in between.
KSHS principal David Thomson said he was “so very proud” of the students, and the teachers who inspired them.
“The parents here tonight should be so proud of their children,” he said.
The exhibition will remain on show at the Gallery throughout August.
