By LACHLAN MOORHEAD
BUDDING artists from Gleneagles Secondary College will next month showcase their hard work at a special exhibition held at Monash University.
The school’s year 12 VCE studio arts and visual communication students will display their work at Monash Caulfield on 14 October following an ongoing partnership struck up between Gleneagles and the Monash University Museum of Art.
Gleneagles studio arts teacher Jess Kinnersley said the upcoming exhibition was a culmination of several excursions her students were treated to at the university this year in which they garnered invaluable art tips from the professionals at MUMA.
“MUMA were offering excursions and I took them up on it and the relationship just built from that,” Ms Kinnersley said.
“A lot of credit has to go to the students, it’s their personalities and eagerness to learn that made MUMA take interest.
“We try to get there as often as we can without disruptions to classes, at least five times in the year.
“They’re full day excursions, working one-on-one with gallery directors and curators and practising artists and there are quite a lot of curatorial talks and walks.”
Gleneagles is one of two schools in Victoria in partnership with MUMA and Ms Kinnersley said she was incredibly proud of how hard the students had been working to put the exhibition together.
“I am over the moon proud of the students and how they are representing the college amongst the art community,” she said.
“It’s not easy in many cases to impress people in such a knowing position and every time they’ve been there they ask amazing questions, even to the point that they shock me.”
The one-night pop-up exhibition will be held on Tuesday 14 October and for more information visit www.gleneagles.vic.edu.au.
