Carinity Education Shalom Year 10 and 11 Artists

From the Deep 2024–25

Wicker, tissue paper, and solar lights
200 x 500 x 500 cm

About the Work

From the Deep draws inspiration from Surrealism, the imaginative figures found in the margins of medieval illuminated texts (known as ‘marginalia’), and sea creatures from the deep that live in the waters beyond our beautiful Strand. For this work, the Year 10 and 11 students from Carinity Education Shalom have created a collection of creatures that have come to celebrate along The Strand. Lanterns are suspended from hooks to dance in the wind, mimicking their movement through the water. Made from wicker and paper, these lanterns will deteriorate over time, becoming trace-less. Hopefully, the amazing sea creatures that were the students’ inspiration won’t also disappear without a trace.

About the Artist

Carinity Education Shalom is a small independent Christian community school in Townsville on Wulgurukaba land that caters predominantly to First Nations students from Prep through to Year 12. For Ephemera 2025, art teachers Meg Allford and Rita Sinclair facilitated a group of students from Year 10 and 11 who worked on this project in class and on Friday afternoons for a term. Many of these students have drawn on traditional skills to construct the skeletons of their creatures, likening them to fish traps.