Gouburn's Kaitlyn Mateta's artwork receives high accolades

Trinity Catholic School's Kaitlyn Mateta had her work Stop the Spread featured and her teacher Clare Cummins said it was thoroughly deserved.

"Kaitlyn is a most passionate and dedicated visual arts student who has achieved an outstanding result this year," Ms Cummins said.

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The exhibition features a selection of outstanding student artworks developed for the artmaking component of the HSC examination in visual arts in NSW.

It includes a broad range of approaches and expressive forms, including ceramics, collection of works, documented forms, drawing, graphic design, painting, photomedia, printmaking, sculpture, textiles and fibre, and time-based forms.

Kaitlyn explained how the idea for the piece came about.

"I was sitting in my art room with my teacher and we looked at my practice in terms of textiles and what I could do with my textile skills," she said.

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"One of the things I was able to do was a crochet ball and when we both looked at it, we thought it looked like a coronavirus cell."

Ms Cummins had nothing but praise for the final product.

"Kaitlyn's work is insightful, reflective and encourages conversation," Ms Cummins said.

"She has an inherent love and appreciation for the visual arts and this is evident in the work she has produced."

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Her postmodern work comments on the very real and lived issue of COVID and society's pursuit to 'stop the spread and contain this infectious illness.

"She crocheted the organic, creeping, unidentifiable strands to symbolise the continued mutation of COVID, spewing out from the recognisable COVID cells.

"The audience is made to ponder if we can truly stop the spread."

Kaitlyn wants to start at the ANU with a bachelor of visual arts in the middle of this month and hopes to become a visual arts and history teacher.

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