This challenge promotes awareness around the importance of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people of Australia.
Below are some of the students’ works and artist statements:
Wherever by Kylie Barbouttis: “My artwork shows that skin colour doesn’t have to stop people from being friends.”
Our Voices Can Change the World by Mia Wroniak: “The voices are coming together to create a new, better and equal future for the world over a backdrop that resembles the Aboriginal flag.”
The Multicultural Tree by Timothy Bardos: “The rainbow hand represents how you should be treated like everyone else no matter what your skin colour is.”
Untitled by Isabella Lazoglou: “I have used a map of Australia with the colours of an Aboriginal flag to represent reconciliation. On the outside of Australia I have used a rainbow of colours to show Australia is a place of unity and diversity.”
Multi-Coloured Multicultural Australia by Imani Johns: “The use of colour in the sun and rainbows represent positive relationships between Aboriginal people and all other nationalities in Australia.”
One of Many Voices by Erick Zhang: “My artwork is about letting kids have a say for our future.”
A Handful of Sand by Bruno Decker-Stewart, We speak as one by Nadia Kljajic and One nation, one future by Matilda Randall
Learn more about the competition and the important work of the NSW Reconciliation Council.