Eastwood Primary School BUILDING BELONGING: BRICK BY BRICK (VIC)

Tell us how your artwork addresses this year’s theme ’We belong’:   

Our art piece “Building Belonging: Brick by Brick” shows how we all can be ourselves and belong together to make something bigger than ourselves. Our wall of bricks fit together to make the community that we belong in together, with our similarities and differences. 

Tell us about the ideas or themes your artwork explored with the theme ‘We belong’:   

Belonging is about acceptance of ourselves and others, and when we all come together we make something bigger than ourselves –  a community. Individually, we are bricks but together we make a strong wall where we all belong, regardless of our differences. 

We are connected by our similarities and differences and support each other to be strong. Being Deaf/deaf/hard of hearing, wearing hearing aids/cochlear implants, signing or speaking, that is what makes us bricks, but when we belong together, we are a strong, powerful wall, supporting and strengthening each other. 

The love and support of our friends, family and community is what holds us together and vies us strength together. 

What type of art have you submitted and why:  

This is collage made from paper and laminated plastic, decorated using permanent marker and texta. The bricks, made from different coloured paper, have been chosen then decorated, drawn or written on, using sharpies and markers by each member of our community. The clear laminated ‘graffiti tags’ of their names in bright colour, provide a different texture over the layers of paper brick, providing another way of expressing themselves and their individuality on top of our over the community while being the brick, that makes the community simultaneously.