Students to be 'hung' in Sydney
TWO students from Murwillumbah Public School will have their impressions of the outback hanging in Sydney for the next 12 months.
Lachlan Higgins and Shaquel King's paintings were chosen from a state-wide art competition to hang on the walls at the Department of Education and Communities offices before being auctioned in support of Stewart House.
Stewart House is a place for state school students who are disadvantaged and families with a sick child to get respite and additional support.
Both Lachlan, 10, and Shaquel, 11, painted their artworks in a day.
"I have done a lot of drawing but this is the second painting I had done," Lachlan said.
Shaquel said she was also new to the paint medium.
"I have done three paintings with some of the teachers," she said.
Artist Cheryl Forrester went to school to help eight of the Murwillumbah Public School students prepare entries for the competition.
The two paintings will form part of the Primary Colours exhibition at the Department of Education and Communities, The Atrium, Level 2, 35 Bridge St, Sydney from May 21 to June 15.
The students will head to Sydney later this month to meet with other students in the exhibition.
