Year 10 student Violet Snider shows off her work on Friday night. Photo: Supplied.
Secondary students have shown off their creative flair and wowed audiences with their annual exhibition to end the visual arts year in Cooktown.
Dozens of residents and visitors converged on Elizabeth Guzsely Gallery on 22 November for the launch of Cooktown School of Art Society’s (CSAS) final exhibition of 2024, ARTLOUNGE24.
Year 7-12 Cooktown State School students create works for the exhibition every year and CSAS president Jane Dennis praised the young artists for efforts that “display an incredible level of creativity, both technically and experimentally”.
ARTLOUNGE24, which runs until 30 November, caps off a big year for the Cooktown gallery, with its RAW, Fly, Swim and Run Youth Exhibition, Archies and 45th Annual Art Award exhibitions also having drawn big crowds keen to experience the artistic talent of the region.
Ms Dennis thanked the student artists and exhibition co-ordinators for making ARTLOUNGE24 a fitting way for the gallery to draw a curtain on 2024.
“As president of Cooktown Art, I would like to congratulate arts Co- Ordinator Jen Scott, Miss Katy Jay and Miss Jen for nurturing these budding artists,” she said.
“Miss Pen-Pen did an awesome job of curating the exhibition.”
Jen Scott, Leanne Rayner, Jane Dennis and Katy Jay catch up at the exhibition. Photo: Supplied.
