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Artbeat 01 Exhibition

Presenting the selected artworks by the jury, public and special mentions

ArtBeat Special Awards

Amaya Fraser, 4 Years (Hastings)

Artistic Statement:
This owl really likes her home. She really really wishes that she could be a queen owl.

Amelia Tapsell, 12 Years (Tauranga)

Artistic Statement:
To me flowers represent hope, new life, and happiness and that to me goes hand in hand with peace. Everyone should be able to experience that joy and peace regardless of culture, race and gender.

Anastasiia Churakova, 9 Years (Auckland)

Artistic Statement:
Cats like to eat fish biscuits these days. So I decided to draw a cat with a fish biscuit. I enjoyed drawing my cat artwork. I was drawing it using watercolour paint, thin black pen and a pencil.

Isla Kempthorne, 12 Years (Christchurch)

Artistic Statement:
My artwork shows diversity and inclusion because the native animals from different countries are from living together in peace and harmony . Also as you can see the leafs are including each other on the same tree in the middle of the art piece as well.

Jazz Vidamo, 11 Years (Waikato)

Artistic Statement:
I chose to do this drawing to show that beauty comes in all diversities. (different forms, shapes, colors and sizes.)

Keala Fraser, 8 Years (Hastings)

Artistic Statement:
The animals are joining up for a party in the woods. They have decorated the trees like rainbows. Even a little fairy came. They are having so much fun. The bunny is staying away from the lion.

Kobi Fraser, 6 Years (Hastings)

Artistic Statement:
There are two fairies. One is called James and the other one is the big sister called Lilly. The bunny is called bunny. Sloth is called Jackson. The bird is flying through the sky. There is some vines so the sloth can hang on. There is a also a little hill. One tree has heaps of leaves on it. One tree is a bald tree.

Mylia Bateman, 11 Years (Christchurch)

Artistic Statement:
The tree represents every one as a community and a team. And the sparkling trunk represents everyone showing their true colours. There are two people from different races in harmony together. The rainbow represents gay, the other rainbow with black and brown represents POC, and the purple flag with the axe represents lesbian.

Nanda Nair, 12 years (Auckland)

Artistic Statement:
“Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. “
Petrarch
What on earth is more amazingly diverse than the ocean is . Life in the ocean ranges from the smallest bacteria to the largest animal ever to have lived on Earth. Different colors and different shapes . Nanda is trying to picture her views on the beauty of ocean – a continual miracle !!”

Olivia Lin, 11 Years (Christchurch)
Pallavi Arun, 7 Years (Remuera)

Artistic Statement:
House and sunset

Rose Bao, 6 Years (Auckland)
Saki Bartneck, 11 Years (Christchurch)

Artistic Statement:
This artwork is a drawing of Rhianna, formally known as Robyn Rihanna Fenty. She is an inspirational black singer, fashion designer and C.E.O of Fenty Beauty. I decided to draw her because she is someone I look up to. This relates to the theme of Diversity because she is a woman of colour.

Amy Vaipan, 11 Years (Auckland)

Artistic Statement:
“What I have made is a picture of a person half black and half white representing diversity in races and I chose that topic because we should be treated the same no matter what colour skin we have.

Bella Steedman, 10 Years (Auckland)

Artistic Statement:
Bird is one of my favourite living creatures created by nature. This is a bird I had a glimpse when I was in Christchurch. I loved the colour of the bird and came home drew what I could remember. I love nature and have a passion for conservation, and want to do what I can to preserve our beautiful country and all the creatures created by nature.

Euan Ironside, 9 Years (Tauranga)
Mikayla Lee, 6 Years (Auckland)

Artistic Statement:
I am learning about diversity at school. I drew my unique special family and I drew different types of food and animals.

Sara Aldarraje, 11 Years (Auckland)

Artistic Statement:
My art piece shows that all humans are equal and should be treated the same as everyone.

Sofia Read, 11 Years (Auckland)
Zoe Denize, 13 Years (Oamaru)

Artistic Statement:
‘The incomprehensible reality’ was inspired by a YouTube artist I like to create this jumble of my thoughts and items/animals in my life which all help me be me!