A BALLARAT High School student is celebrating her back-to-back exhibiting debut with her paired photographic pieces shared between the Art Gallery of Ballarat and Melbourne\u2019s National Gallery of Victoria.<\/p>\n
Currently displaying her Dora (Flora)<\/EM> four-tiered work as part of the local Next Gen<\/EM> show, year 12 student Jett Leduc\u2019s accompanying piece called Skye (Fauna)<\/EM> is set to feature in the NGV\u2019s Top Arts<\/EM> exhibition next month. <\/p>\n Leduc said both works explore her interest in ambiguity.<\/p>\n \u201cBoth these works are a pairing but they tell their own individual stories,\u201d she said. \u201cI wanted to keep both very open-ended, there are different elements and I\u2019m hiding in both of them.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s to show my connection to these works but the works are about the people centred in them without giving you a dead-set idea of who they are.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s about how we perceive people and how we utilise elements of their environment to understand who they are.\u201d<\/p>\n Beginning her photography journey with live music shoots when she was in year 9, Leduc\u2019s continued interest in the art led her to study her school\u2019s year 12 unit VCE Art Making and Exhibiting while in year 11.<\/p>\n She said she owes much of her development to her teacher, Scott Haskins. <\/p>\n \u201cI would take photos of anything and everything and he helped me direct my energy into one pathway,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n \u201cHe helped me understand how to put my influences into my artwork and he was brutally honest at times which I needed.\u201d<\/p>\n