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CYI student to show off art at Outpost festival |
| 28 September 2011 |
 Great news from our Creative Youth Initiatives program in Sydney’s inner-city! Seventeen-year-old Roley, who is participating in CYI’s Artworks! program, has won a place in an exclusive street art workshop to be held on Cockatoo Island later in the year. The Outpost Project, which runs from 4 November to 11 December, will be the largest street art festival ever held in Australia, and promises to feature some of the best contemporary artists from this country and overseas. Only 20 young artists in New South Wales have been given the opportunity to participate in the workshop with visiting Outpost artists Miso and Beastman. Roley (pictured at a legal graffiti wall) will not only work with the artists over two days, but will also have the opportunity to exhibit his artwork as part of the festival. “Since I started CYI, the tutors have shown me how to do oil paintings and drawings,” Roley said. “I’ve learnt a lot of different techniques and branched out from just graffiti. “The tutors helped me with entering the competition and getting all my photos together and writing a really good reference for me. I couldn’t have done it without them.’” CYI would love to give all of its 14 Artworks! students the chance to participate in the upcoming Outpost workshops, which each cost $35 per person to attend. If you or your organisation would like to help CYI to achieve this, please call (02) 9356 8897 or email cyi@missionaustralia.com.au Artworks! is a TAFE- accredited visual arts program, which provides materials, skilled one-on-one and group tuition, and a safe place in which to explore creativity for young people who are facing many and varied challenges in their lives. Artworks! runs three days a week for six months, with intake for the two semesters occurring in February and July.  |
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