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Sunday 28th August
AN interest in youth culture led Tess Saunders to some of the great old masters of the art world. The resulting photographs exploring the connections between 21st century teenagers and the old masters are on display in a prestigious student art exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria. Now in year 12 at Mornington Secondary College, Ms Saunders was completing photography studies in year 11 when she took the photos chosen for the Top Arts exhibition. The exhibition highlights the best work by students of VCE art and studio arts. This year it has 43 artists chosen by a panel of art teachers and gallery curators. Ms Saunders’ photos explore the idea of appropriation, taking classic works such as Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and reworking them in a modern setting, with her friends and family members as her subjects. This year she is exploring contemporary art forms such as graffiti and multimedia paste-ups and hopes to study photography at RMIT. Her advice to new students is “Document everything and look deeply into every idea you have, big or small, because you never know where it will take you.” Top Arts is at the Ian Potter Centre in Federation Square until 7 July.
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Senior’s call for respect By Mike Hast RETIRED nurse Joan Coomber of Mornington is mightily annoyed about the lack of respect shown toward older people. In recent years she has experienced sarcasm, verbal abuse, bullying, intimidation, lies and what she calls “duck shoving”. People patronise her in the mistaken belief that when you get old, your brain stops working.
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public occurred just a few weeks ago but other, earlier incidents also have coloured her thinking. A building and development company bought the house next door to her unit, which is one of three. One day she returned home from shopping, aboard her mobility scooter, to see a surveyor and a builder in her driveway. She was polite, said hello but didn’t chip them about being on her property.
Soon after, the fence between the two properties was demolished. “There was no notification, no phone call, no one knocking on my door to let me know what was happening,” she said. “I complained to the fence contractor that people now had access to my backyard.” Couldn’t a temporary barrier be erected, she asked. Continued Page 7
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