Title

Alison Lester’s Kids Antarctic project.

Venues

Artspace Mackay. (7 October 2011 – 26 November 2011)

Date

(2011)

Summary

Single-artist exhibition. Located: Australia (QLD).

Country of context

Australia

Abstract

In 2005, Alison Lester traveled to the Antarctic as an Australian Antarctic Arts Fellow. Thousands of children from schools all around the world were inspired, using her on-line diary and photographic journal to track her journey. By keeping in touch with Alison, children followed her trip, leaving Tasmania on the ice breaker Aurora Australis, to travel to Mawson Station and to Casey station on the Antarctic continent and sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island. Alison encouraged the students to draw in response to her descriptions and photos and on her return home she was inundated with beautiful drawings of Antarctica as imagined by children. Alison used these illustrations to complete this exhibition of work combining the children’s line drawings with her design and colour. [Artspace Mackay media].