Sunil Maharjan

Young artists make a profit

ACU art students, Sunil Maharjan and Laura Padalini, have recently had artwork purchased by the University following the We are Nowhere and It's Now exhibition at the Melbourne Campus.

Artwork and designs produced by ACU students are displayed each year at the Brunswick Street Gallery, giving them the opportunity to have their work seen by the public and other local artists.

The exhibition marked the end of the Visual Art and Design Degree for the students, and the beginning of their professional lives.

Professor Margot Hillel OAM, Acting Dean of Arts and Sciences, said that the students had shown they are able to take the seemingly ordinary and create the extraordinary, making it accessible to us all.

"Many of the artworks allow us to engage with the essential humanity of the subject. The works included in the exhibition cover a range of human emotions. Some of them have pathos, some have humour, still others have a real joie de vivre," she said.

"We, at Australian Catholic University, are justifiably proud of our students. These visual arts students have reached an important crossing point in their artistic journeys; a point which is both a culmination and a beginning and we will watch with interest as they continue those travels in a variety of ways," she added.