"My Wonka State of Mind" by Tram Thien Huong Nguyen (Cabramatta High School).

ARTEXPRESS turns 25

ARTEXPRESS is celebrating 25 years of exhibiting student art.

ARTEXPRESS had humble beginnings with works being taken by teachers to halls and council chambers for display. The exhibition has now exhibited internationally, makes up 14 per cent of the annual attendance to the Art Gallery of NSW and has a popular exhibition tour to regional galleries across NSW. During the past eight years the exhibition has attracted more than two million visitors.

Bodies of work come from all of the media areas described in the Visual Arts syllabus � drawing, graphic design, painting, printmaking, photography, designed objects and environments, textiles and fibre, sculpture, documented forms, ceramics, digital media, film and video, digital animation, interactives and collections of works.

This year 270 government school students will have their work exhibited across five metropolitan and four regional exhibitions.

The regional exhibitions are comprised of 116 works selected from the five metropolitan exhibitions and additional works selected for tour only. In all the ARTEXPRESS exhibitions there are works by 64 students from country NSW.

Each of the separate ARTEXPRESS exhibitions has a different curatorial theme or idea, ensuring that each venue is unique and displays a range of works across the art-making forms.

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