Tag: Artwork

From the artist: Thoughts we often toy with alone, they are ideas, potential tools for building new connections. These provide the fuel for roads of infinite universal paths. It is this neuroplastic nature of our existence that brings me joy.

Anwesha Banerjee
Epsom Girls Grammar School

From the artist: What brings me joy is my grandmother. In this image, I feel as if I can see her story written on her skin, the story of herself, of my family, and myself. I think it captures her knowledge and being, bringing me joy.

Maddie van Leeuwen
Diocesan School for Girls

“Seven Wishes”

From the artist: My painting, “Seven Wishes” denotes the long process of painting. My aim for perfection, in this process, is what gives me joy and satisfaction. The seven figures of myself conveys the notion of creation; with seven being a number of completeness and perfection.

Logan Bow
Auckland Boys Grammar

“Three as one” – Acrylic on canvas, 12 x16.

From the artist: My family brings me joy through their love, comfort, support and encouragement which help me reach for beautiful things, like the stars in the night sky. They inspire me to shine and to keep going even when things become challenging. I am so lucky and grateful to have them in my life. It’s not material items or temporary friends/relationships that bring true joy, family does.

Dina Aziz
Carmel College

From the artist: My painting represents childhood imagination. As children, we could easily slip into make-believe worlds. Being creative was such an easy and joyous feeling to achieve. My childhood was full of joy, and looking back on memories, these nostalgic emotions remind me of that unique feeling.

Hannah Thompson
Botany Downs Secondary College

The progress and development of the women’s suffrage prior to 1893 to 2018 is depicted in these two illustrations. The first image represents time before 1893, were women were oppressed, and the second image illustrates 2018, where women such as Jacinda Ardern are in highly powerful positions.

IMAGE 1:

• Bubble = represents the capturing of women as their form of “protection” from the wider world
• Umbrella = sheltering women from freedom to have rights and be equal in society
• 3 Floating women, with no hands or legs = they couldn’t “stand on their own two feet,” or “weren’t capable of doing anything themselves”
• Faceless = no identity, devaluing women as an individual but being dressed in identical black dresses, restricting them from self-exploration
• Chained to umbrella = physically restricting them from changing or making a difference in society, therefore, restricted to their designated role of domestication
• Red rain drops = represents corrupt/oppressive power upheld by men, illustrating the struggle women had to go through to achieve their goals

IMAGE 2:

• Jacinda Ardern in red = NZ Prime Minister for Labour, now wearing the power, empowering myself and many other New Zealand women to make a difference for our future daughters of the world
• Closed umbrella and broken chain = breaking chain of oppression and closing the “protective” power men held over women
• World = graduation on top, representing the graduation and development of the world as women now hold powerful positions such as Ardern

With Jacinda Ardern as NZ’s Prime Minister, I feel compelled, as a young feminist, to continue gender equality and development of society, so that we can complete our Master’s degree in Equality globally, for our women of the future to sustain.

Jasmine Bohlin
Baradene College of the Sacred Heart