Furlong Park Primary School LITTLE FINGER FRIENDS (VIC)

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

This artwork shows that a lot of different people, with different appearances, different personalities, different interests, and different was of communication can still all come together to create a community where everyone can get along, make friends, and feel like they belong together. It shows that people can have their own identities but at the same time can belong with others, and that they do not have to let their differences divide them  

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

This artwork explores the ideas of friendship, communities and people’s unique identities. Each little friend in the artwork is made of a fingerprint, showing that they have unique thing about them that are different to everyone else. But they can still come together to form bonds, friendships, and a broader community based on things that they have in common. This applies in all sorts of settings, such as in school, within families, and in the Deaf community as a whole. 

What type of art have you submitted and why? :  

The artwork was created with acrylic paint and fine liners. Paint was a medium that was familiar to the students that still allowed them creative freedom with the colours they chose. The fineliner was chosen as it stands out well against the paint while being thing enough to make the final appears of each character clear.