Two of Katoomba High School's HSC Visual Arts Students were nominated for inclusion in ArtExpress at the Art Gallery of NSW.
Sama Cooper was selected for her nine indian ink portraits on stonehenge, titled Sonder. Fellow student Chloe Melo's work, And they were room mates, which was a dark and perverse look at society, was a nomination.
Sama Cooper said in her artist's statement: "My body of work intends to visually capture the collective experience of individual awareness and presence of mind.
"Fundamentally, we understand each other through basic human empathy and throughout our lives there exists heightened moments of clarified connection to one another through experience of shared spirit, challenges, problems and joys.
"In a word, Sonder. The realisation that every other person has a life as vivid and complex as your own. This is realised in brief moments of noticing each passerby in a busy crowd or dawns in a deep conversation with your friend. A simple gravity which we all share and express without words, whether it be through our eyes or through merely being."
Chloe Melo's work 'And they were room mates' was a dark and perverse look at society.