Art to go

I have been hurried and harried past the new David Jones window displays each morning this week on my way to work, taking in what I could as I passed, so on the way home today I stopped to smell the roses, in disregard of the other bustling peak-hour pedestrians, and paused before each window on Elizabeth, Market and Castlereagh Streets. They are currently displaying the ArtExpress exhibition. ArtExpress is a selection of the ‘best’ visual art works from the Higher School Certificate students, and 48 of these works are on display in DJ’s windows at the moment. They are well worth a look! (These pictures are two I snapped rather randomly while waiting for the bus, and not necessarily the best of them - the above is actually done in oils too.)

I quit Art as a subject at the end of Year 11, largely because having watched my sister do her major artwork the year before I was deterred by the stress of the whole thing, and because Art was going to clash with picking up an extra unit in both Maths and English. If I had my time over, I wouldn’t bother with 4 Unit Maths, which is of no use to me and completely forgotten now, whereas Art is a much more enduring love ...