Nor'West News: May 27, 2021
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4 Thursday <strong>May</strong> <strong>27</strong> <strong>2021</strong><br />
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NOR’WEST NEWS<br />
Pupils honour their local heroes in<br />
Josh Mackay, Crusaders<br />
Josef Gattsche, Police<br />
• By Bea Gooding<br />
AN EXHIBITION by primary<br />
school pupils has celebrated what<br />
it takes to be a local hero while<br />
putting their multimedia skills to<br />
the test.<br />
The Casebrook Intermediate<br />
School hall was transformed into<br />
an art gallery last week when<br />
hundreds of framed black and<br />
white photos of community<br />
heroes were on display.<br />
The heroes were chosen by<br />
pupils and they held a variety of<br />
roles in society, from firefighters,<br />
nurses and police to sports players,<br />
journalists and even family<br />
members.<br />
“The event was held as a wrapup<br />
celebration for our relationships<br />
inquiry unit,” said teacher<br />
Samantha Kirk.<br />
Each frame had a QR code and<br />
once scanned with a cellphone,<br />
“digital artefacts” created by<br />
the pupils would pop up on the<br />
screen.<br />
The artefacts showed what that<br />
hero did and had background<br />
information about their lives<br />
through podcasts, videos, websites<br />
and slideshows.<br />
The pupils gathered the information<br />
for the project by interviewing<br />
the heroes they chose.<br />
They asked them questions<br />
about early childhood, family,<br />
FRAMED: Nick Leith, deputy principal at Casebrook Intermediate School, scans the QR<br />
code on the photo of councillor for Papanui Ward Mike Davidson. PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN<br />
education, and their careers.<br />
“We started with a ‘hook’ by<br />
hosting community heroes panels<br />
in paired classrooms.<br />
“Staff organised firefighters,<br />
sports players, policemen and<br />
more to be interviewed<br />
by students about their life,”<br />
said Kirk. “This way the students<br />
were taught how to interview<br />
and what makes a community<br />
hero.”<br />
Six years ago I spent several days at Birdlings Flat,<br />
an area I had not visited for over twenty years.<br />
It was a visit that would influence my painting<br />
in many ways. It added to my lexicon of places<br />
beside the sea that I often draw upon when<br />
working.<br />
Visually I was inspired by the shape of the hills<br />
and the conversations between sea, sky and land.<br />
I appreciated the austere elemental geology of<br />
the place. Not to get too esoteric about it, but I<br />
felt comfortable being uncomfortable there.<br />
Since then I have visited various parts of Banks<br />
Peninsula on a regular basis and each time I have<br />
come away with something new to explore via<br />
painting.<br />
Unlike earlier paintings these works are not<br />
seeking to capture or convey these landscapes.<br />
They are certainly shaped by it, but essentially<br />
are by-products of time spent walking, biking, or<br />
simply sitting and looking at local places.<br />
Acrylic on canvas 1530 x 1015mm<br />
Acrylic on canvas 1530 x 1015<br />
Brent Forbes was born 1968 in Timaru, South<br />
Canterbury, where he now resides. He completed<br />
study at Aoraki Polytechnic in 1988 and Nelson<br />
Polytechnic in 1994. Forbes regularly exhibits<br />
throughout New Zealand and has works in private<br />
collections locally and in Australia, Great Britain,<br />
Germany and U.S.A.<br />
Brent Forbes’ exhibition runs from 29th <strong>May</strong> to 22nd June at the Little River Gallery.<br />
Brent<br />
Forbes<br />
Round Here<br />
29 MAY – 22 JUNE <strong>2021</strong><br />
Main Rd, Little River | 03 325 1944 | art@littlerivergallery.com | littlerivergallery.com
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