Ideas, Innovation - and Imagination
Welcome to our annual student art exhibition for 2013.
With the help of Albert Einstein we can add imagination to the theme of this year’s exhibition, Ideas and Innovation:
‘Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world and all there ever will be to know and understand.’
Through the artworks in our collection we engage with the imagination of the students who created them as well as enjoying the aesthetics, design and use of materials in new and exciting ways.
The ideas that developed each work communicate the context and culture of the student creators and, more importantly, where they might be going. Their artwork provides an insight into the future, describing the new and unknown and revealing the potential keys to innovation.
In the changing world context of economic and societal challenges, participation in a comprehensive and diverse arts education, both as artist and audience, has never been more critical. The key competencies for 21st century learning centralise the arts as a powerful enabler that fosters cultural understanding, creative and divergent thinking and deep cognitive development.
Through the presentation of these engaging and dynamic visual artworks, students have given us an insight into the ideas that may shape and help build capacity to innovate for the future.
Anne Smith
Arts Learning Executive
Independent Schools Victoria