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People’s Choice Award

For each Exhibition, visitors are provided with the opportunity to nominate their favourite pieces of student work. An online voting system enables the most popular item to be selected and awarded the “People’s Choice Award”. The student that produces the winning art work is presented with a prize and their award is acknowledged on our website and in social media posts.

 

Award Winners

2021

“CHADWICK BOSEMAN”
EMMETT McCANN
DE LA SALLE COLLEGE

Many people often say that eyes are the window to the soul. This conviction was the driving force for me to follow realism portraiture. Without any words or speech, a person’s face is what engages people the most, with expressions of many emotions. As Anh Do put it, ‘I paint portraits because I’m interested by people, their dreams, desires, regrets, their sadness’.
 
When beginning to select a reference for own portraiture work, actor Chadwick Boseman had recently passed away from cancer at the age of 43 and shook not only the entertainment industry but the entire world. Boseman’s work had been an inspiration for so many people of colour and was a symbol for equality and representation, especially with ‘BLM’. With tributes pouring in, one resonated with me, a cast member stated that people could always read Boseman’s performance within his eyes. 
 
Having this piece along with so many unique and creative pieces from the ACC schools is an incredible experience for the talents of these students to be shared and appreciated with the wider community, something which I hope continues with more opportunities. I’m very appreciative of the recognition with the artwork being selected as the People’s Choice Award and I hope that everyone takes away a different meaning when they look into his eyes in the artwork and reflect on the lasting touch Chadwick Boseman still holds today.
 
Emmett McCann
De La Salle College


2017

“EMOTIVE PORTRAITS”
ANDREW DO, FRANCIS ZAAR, DYLAN LY
MAZENOD COLLEGE


2015

“REPRESENTATIVE OF WOMEN”