By ANEEKA SIMONIS
BUDDING creatives from Beaconhills College in Pakenham and Berwick were recognised for their raw, unique talent at the schools’ VCE Visual Arts and Technology Exhibition last week.
Award-winner Anneliese Edwards from the Pakenham campus was praised for her creative, thoughtful watercolour piece which took a serious look at the effects of bullying.
“The piece visually represents bullying and different impressions given by the media,” said the 18-year-old VCE student.
“Exciting, honest and insightful,” were the words used by head of visual arts John Irvine to describe the range of high quality work which ranged from watercolour portraits to photography.
Another Year 12 Pakenham student James Howell produced an outstanding technological piece, the stringless laser harp.
“There are eight lasers which shine onto eight different sensors. When I break the sensor light path, it sends a message to my laptop which plays music through garageband,” the systems engineering and design student told.
“It took a lot of hard work but I am happy with it.”
Other notable pieces included a push doof speaker bike in Pakenham as well as an open-wheeled raced workshop lift and a 3D computer-controlled sculpting machine from Berwick.
The college, which in recent years has scored the most awards in the state for a VCE design excellency category, just keep improving.
“This year the students’ work has been of an exceptional standard with the creativity and innovation reading new levels,” head of technology Scott Colquhoun said.
Pakenham campus officially opened the VCE Visual Arts and Technology Exhibition on Tuesday 14 October which co-incided with the opening of the Berwick campus’s “CRE8 2013” exhibition.
