CQU Art Collection is helping to bring TransVISUAL to Central Queensland. TransVISUAL is a travelling schools' exhibition developed by the Regional Galleries Association of Queensland.

The exhibition will be staged at St Ursula’s College, Yeppoon, from October 12-23 and at Yeppoon State School from October 27 to November 13.

“TransVISUAL provides school students with hands-on experience with contemporary Queensland art," according to CQU Art Collection coordinator Nanette Balchin.

TransVISUAL consists of two exhibitions, contemporary Queensland art and contemporary Indigenous art, and is curated specifically for Queensland schools.

In both venues, the schools are creating a special gallery space, staging opening functions and involving students in a gallery experience and associated art activities.

Painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, mixed media and construction works are all represented in the 16 works to be exhibited.

Students from kindergarten to Year 12 will see the works set up in a school-based gallery.

At Yeppoon State School, a group of students will also get the opportunity to work with Pamela Croft, one of the indigenous artists represented in the exhibition.

Pamela is based at Keppel Sands. All students at Yeppoon State School will see the exhibition and as a culmination a special function will be held to showcase the exhibition and the students' own art work.

At St Ursula’s College, art students from years 8-12 will be actively involved in projects related to the exhibition and kindergarten-aged children will come along and be helped by the childcare studies students to enjoy the exhibition. “This is certainly a unique learning experience for students of all ages and it’s an opportunity for arts based learning across the school population. CQU is proud to be able to facilitate this project,” Ms Balchin said.

“It’s great to see art exhibitions going out of the public galleries and into the schools." This New Audiences Project is assisted by the Australia Council, the Commonwealth Government’s arts funding and advisory body.

TransVISUAL is supported by Arts Qld, Australia Council for the Arts, Gaming Machine Community Benefit Fund, NQX Freight Express Systems, Eckersleys and Avant Card.

CQU is helping schools to stage the event though curatorial advice and hands on assistance.

Yeppoon State School also received a small Regional Arts Development Fund grant from Arts Queensland and Livingstone Shire Council to help stage TransVISUAL.

For details: contact Nanette Balchin on 4939 3885 or 0407 760 150 or 4923 2040 or nbalchin@cqnet.com.au or the schools via Nerida O'Hare, Deputy Principal Yeppoon SS 4939 1155 or Carmel Knowles, Art Coordinator, St Ursula's College, 4939 9600.