Clancy Prize for religious art showcases Catholic school talent

AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
March 10, 2010

AUSTRALIA--Gavin Lacanillo, a former St Mary’s Cathedral College student, was this month named the 2010 winner of The Clancy Prize Religious Art Exhibition at Australian Catholic University’s (ACU) Strathfield Campus. The exhibition at the University’s McGlade Gallery is in its 11th year and is run collaboratively by the Catholic Education Office (CEO) Sydney and ACU. It gives high school students the opportunity to explore religious themes through visual art. This year’s exhibition, based on the theme ‘You are the salt of the earth… you are the light of the world’ (Matt 5:13-14), showcases 76 art works from 34 Catholic secondary schools in the Archdiocese of Sydney. Gavin’s four-part entry on canvas, entitled Scratching the Surface, was made using a mix of acrylic, glass and pencils. The 17-year-old said the self-portraits were created to “peel back the layers and expose a true self”. [link]