The winners of the 2022 Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art which includes The Gap State High School’s very own, Angela Bevis, have just been announced.
A total of 30 budding artists have been crowned with the prestigious Creative Generation Excellence Awards, as announced by Education Minister Grace Grace last 2 December 2022.
The Gap State High School’s Angela Bevis was among the recipients via her entry titled “Dear Diary”. The artwork utilised textile and paper patchwork for the projection base and 17 digitally composed illustrations using ink, collage, acrylic paint on leaves, tape-sealed insects, and found natural objects as a basis.
The illustrations display personal diary entries and varying combinations of picture and abstract text that were combined to create a Powerpoint video clip and projected onto the hung-up white base
Artist Statement
“Cast your own shadows upon my past, as that is what you inevitably do. For better or worse every second that passes and every action you take will always ripple around to every other soul on this Earth. For however frightening the concept of our own physicality is, please, sit and watch one person’s memories. Watch them project onto and stain a clean slate, turning the invisible into physical, manifested illustrations before fading into one another. Imagine they are your own, because now they are. You have experienced my experiences and we are but a second closer to each other.”
“The Excellence Awards recognise the incredible talent and dedication shown by Queensland art students,” Ms Grace said.
“This wonderful competition has shone a spotlight on the high standard of visual art education in Queensland secondary schools since 1990, and the standard of entries this year has been fantastic.
“Congratulations to all students who entered, I hope you are encouraged to continue creating and exploring visual art in life after school.
The 2022 Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art winners by region are as follows:
| First Name | Surname | School | Education Region |
| Saphire | Banks | Lourdes Hill College (Hawthorne) | Metropolitan |
| Cooper | Bell | Ipswich Grammar School | Metropolitan |
| Angela | Bevis | The Gap State High School | Metropolitan |
| Paige | Edwards | St Aidan’s Anglican Girls School (Corinda) | Metropolitan |
| Dash | Enfield | Queensland Academy for Creative Industries | Metropolitan |
| Mitchell | Ferreria | St Laurence’s College (South Brisbane) | Metropolitan |
| Tahlia | Holden | Albany Creek State High School | Metropolitan |
| Xuanxuan | Ke | Kelvin Grove State College | Metropolitan |
| Dindi | Lobo | Mary MacKillop College (Nundah) | Metropolitan |
| Crystal | Luong | Glenala State High School | Metropolitan |
| Isla | McWilliam | St Margaret’s Anglican Girls School (Ascot) | Metropolitan |
| Ava | Murdoch | St Peters Lutheran College (Indooroopilly) | Metropolitan |
| Alana | Murphy | Queensland Academy for Creative Industries | Metropolitan |
| Ella | Rinon | Indooroopilly State High School | Metropolitan |
| Cheyenne | Rowe | Everton Park State High School | Metropolitan |
| Saskia | Billson | St Hilda’s School (Southport) | South East |
| Eloise | Gilbert | Redlands College (Wellington Point) | South East |
| Isabelle | Hacon | St Hilda’s School (Southport) | South East |
| Marie | Masson | Cleveland District State High School | South East |
| Madeline | Miles | Cleveland District State High School | South East |
| Mikaylah | Parker | Redlands College (Wellington Point) | South East |
| Zoe | Kamarinos | Immanuel Lutheran College (Buderim) | North Coast |
| Summer | Moore | Chancellor State College | North Coast |
| Thomas | Chen | Trinity Anglican School (White Rock) | Far North |
| Sky | Komaki | Trinity Bay State High School | Far North |
| Emma | Rawson-Harris | Trinity Bay State High School | Far North |
| Carli | Kite | Gilroy Santa Maria College (Ingham) | North Queensland |
| Abigail | Koulakis | St Patrick’s College (Townsville) | North Queensland |
| Alexandra | Clifford | Whitsunday Anglican School (Beaconsfield) | Central Queensland |
| Diana | Mwizero | Toowoomba State High School | Darling Downs South West |
The winners of the 2022 Creative Generation Excellence Awards in Visual Art will have their artwork exhibited at the Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) at South Bank in Brisbane from 22 April 2023.
View the digital exhibition here.