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Green dream for USC Design students
It’s a budding artist’s dream: thousands of people visiting an exhibition of your work on a single day.
That will be the opportunity for 50 advanced Design students from the University of the Sunshine Coast this Sunday 28 June.
More than 7,000 people are expected to attend the Sunshine Coast World Environment Day Festival between 9am and 4pm at the Sippy Downs campus.
The USC Gallery, which normally opens Monday to Saturday, will open specially this Sunday for the festival.
It is hosting the Re:Generate exhibition of dramatic, large format, computer-based images that portray technology in relation to past, current and future global issues.
Karl Short, 24, said he hoped people would appreciate the concept behind his stark, layered, 1.5m by 0.4m work called “Two Paths”.
It shows cyborg-humans taking planet Earth in different directions – one to destruction and one to a healthy ray of light.
“It’s about the choices we face at the moment,” said the former Maroochydore State High School student and guitarist. “We can use technology to help save the environment or we can continue destroying it. The first road is the hardest.”
Made of 3D graphics, textures and photography on canvas, it took about 20 hours and was Karl’s first exhibited work. He works part-time for a web design company located at the University’s Innovation Centre.
“I’m six months away from finishing my USC dual degree in Arts and Business, majoring in management and design,” he said. “It’s been an awesome balance between creativity and the business side. Human resources management was a strong undertone so I’ve learnt about dealing with people too.”
Arts fans at the festival this Sunday also can enjoy visiting the USC Co-op Bookshop, which is opening specially for the event.
— Julie Gatehouse