Visiting a Wonderful School in Geelong

Still in Australia, I was delighted and privileged to be invited to speak about Art from Recycled Materials to Year 9 boys at St Joseph’s College, Geelong. The invitation came from the school’s Sustainability Co-ordinator, Kelly Jenkins, as part of the school’s response to the year of ‘Living the Golden Rule’. From her introductory address:

“As the world population continues to escalate, there is an ever increasing need to become more resourceful and sustainable with our finite resources. This necessitates a move away from a linear economy toward a circular economy… one that involves sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials and using waste products from one system as the raw materials of another.”

The boys proved a great audience with lots of intelligent questions asked at the end of the presentation.

Seeking a creative response to ‘Living the Golden Rule’, the college is to commission me to create an artwork to represent its faith and identity, using plastic and other found materials, collected by the students of St Joseph’s College.                                                                                                                                                                                                        How exciting is that?!

Below R – with two of the lovely staff, Nicole and Kristen, modelling WEARABLES!