Artwork

Excellence in Art Competition 2018 Gallery
Theme: 
The Art of Deception - Do My Eyes Deceive Me?

 

Abigail Annison
Sold for: $25.00
Abigail Annison
My artwork is inspired by the deception around politics and the lies that society is essentially built on. I chose to use former US President Richard...
Alex Su
Sold for: $150.00
Alex Su
My work is inspired by my experience as a teenage immigrant from Taiwan. The background of blue sky and white clouds symbolise my impression of New...
Alina Khanal
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Alina Khanal
My work is inspired by a Belgian visual artist named Ben Heine. Deception is defined as an act of promoting a belief that is not true or not the...
Amber Abbott
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Amber Abbott
My work is inspired by project MKUltra, a CIA mind control experimental program that began in the early 1950s. It involved experiments on humans to...
Amy Barnes
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Amy Barnes
My work is inspired by the deceiving nature of beauty, and how beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I think beauty can be deceiving as our...
Analiese Moore
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Analiese Moore
My work is inspired by the identity of people on social media and how we believe we must act and be someone else to be accepted by people. Show how...
Cameron Mailer
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Cameron Mailer
My work is inspired by the hallucinations and daydreams the mind plays over and over when in the need for love. Nothing else matters, and only the...
Carly Bayer
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Carly Bayer
My work is inspired by the current events going on in the world and how they make me question reality, do my eyes deceive me? Are we really making so...
Carly Hipkin
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Carly Hipkin
My work is inspired by autumn leaves falling down twisting and turning looking like ballerinas landing on soft bright green grass and dancing away...
Charlotte Bowden
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Charlotte Bowden
My work is inspired by the #MeToo movement that occured not that long ago. And how the culprits in hollywood managed to deceive people into thinking...
Charlotte Halliwell
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Charlotte Halliwell
My work is inspired by butterflies and moths and how they use false eyes on their wings to deceive...
Dar'ya Starykoua
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Dar'ya Starykoua
My piece is inspired by the work of Miles Johnston. It represents current issue such as global warming, pollution, war, guns, animal rights etc. The...
Elisa Hyde Hills
Sold for: $75.00
Elisa Hyde Hills
I was inspired by betta/siamese fighting fish and their tails reminded me of rippling fabric...
Ella Rose Uren-Louisson
Sold for: $170.00
Ella Rose Uren-Louisson
Do your eyes deceive you? Yes, not everything you see is the full story. I volunteer for a trust called Hope Rising Farm, which works with at-risk...
Ella Silvester
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Ella Silvester
My work is inspired by the deception that people can be different than what it may seem to be and water does this by altering what we see on the...
Emma Uren
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Emma Uren
I chose to explore the topic of how we deceive ourselves through perception. When we look in a mirror, we often see not just a pure reflection of...
Esther Schuchardt
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Esther Schuchardt
My work is inspired by the green poisons and the thought that beauty can be deceptive. Many people look only at outward appearances, unaware of the...
Eva Shen
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Eva Shen
My work is inspired by the Beijing opera. In ancient China, opera actors were always in the lowest social and economic position. Many of them were...
Gunn Kim
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Gunn Kim
My work is inpired by my kiwi-grandad named Frankie and how he was a role model for me because of his qualities of character and through this...
Hannah Park
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Hannah Park
My artwork is inspired by my bunny who died recently due to a cat attack. I wanted to illustrate a peaceful and pleasant image in memory of my bunny,...
Hope Sutton
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Hope Sutton
My work is inspired by Spyro who is looking through a portal and seeing himself as a monster who destroyed the world and all life on it. So now he is...
Jaedyn Johnson
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Jaedyn Johnson
My work is inspired by the way you can sometimes get two types of weather above your house. It could be raining if looking out the back window but...
Jayde Kovaleski
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Jayde Kovaleski
My work is inspired by my favourite drag queen Milk. Drag is to deceive an artform of itself which blurs the lines of gender and...
Jessica Hale 1
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Jessica Hale 1
Age is but a number - My work is inspired by my grandmother who often says that even though her body gets older she still feels the same (young) on...
Jessica Hale 2
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Jessica Hale 2
My work is inspired by how much emphasis people put on outer beauty which is represented by perfect lips. Yet so many people are struggling silently...
Jin Yoo
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Jin Yoo
My work is inspired by my life and people's life. When I or we have a hard time or not satisfied with our lives, we think the world is going to...
Kelly Ye
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Kelly Ye
My work is inspired by the state of distress of which is a undercurrent of our lives. The anguish evoked by deception is whole overwhelming and...
Kimberley Grey
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Kimberley Grey
Pollution in the world inspired my work. Specifically water pollution. I used the visual deception of the tap not attached to a pipe and floating in...
Ko Lohrer
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Ko Lohrer
My work is inspired by the uncertainty that comes from visual hallucinations and how they can convince and consume your mind. I want to express the...
Lloyd Manozca
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Lloyd Manozca
Do my eyes deceive me? Winning is not everything even though some people think it is. Even losing helps us to win in the end. We need to see who we...
Maria Paz Esperanza Contreras Huerta
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Maria Paz Esperanza Contreras Huerta
My work is inspired by ungrateful people, and the disrespect for human nature in my art. I portray the raw human emotion shown by our basic features...
Mikaela Pacis
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Mikaela Pacis
My work is inspired by optical illusions. I admired how they creatively deceive the eye and force us to look and think hard about the artwork. I used...
Mikayla Clarke
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Mikayla Clarke
Our world takes so many different forms; air, fire, water, earth, so do people. Our thoughts and emotions change throughout different situations....
Mohini Patel
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Mohini Patel
My work is inpired by global warming and how trash is in our ocean negatively impacting our ecosystem. The gas mask and smoke represents how the sky...
Mwewa Kasongo 1
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Mwewa Kasongo 1
My work is inpired by the quote "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." So often we conform to the unrealistic beauty standards of the...
Mwewa Kasongo 2
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Mwewa Kasongo 2
My work is inspired by the quote "The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You...
Mwewa Kasongo 3
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Mwewa Kasongo 3
My work is inspired by the saying "The grass isn't greener on the other side." So often the media feeds us false hope, so I took a spin...
Mwewa Kasongo 4
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Mwewa Kasongo 4
My work is inpired by the meaning behind Rene Magritte's painting "The Treachery of Images". I called this piece "This is not an...
Mwewa Kasongo 5
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Mwewa Kasongo 5
My work is inspired by the optical illusion, the checked tunnel and its connection with the iris. "Tunnel Vision" takes your eye and draws...
Olivia Barry
Sold for: $71.00
Olivia Barry
My painting is about feeling invisible. As a teenager growing up in a world when you are judged, invisibility is a common thing to feel. Sometimes...
Peter Nguyen
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Peter Nguyen
My artwork is inspired by the action of breathing. Literally, when you notice your breath, it won't go as the way you want, it will only go...
Petra Riddell 1
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Petra Riddell 1
My work is inspired by the deception made with devices and thinking you are more connected to the world, but you are disconnecting yourself from your...
Petra Riddell 2
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Petra Riddell 2
My work is inspired by the deception created with phones making you more connected but sucking away your time so you are less connected to humans and...
Petra Riddell 3
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Petra Riddell 3
My work is inspired by the deception that is created through people appearing to be 'happy' and making their lives appear more perfect than...
Rebekah Edgeworth
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Rebekah Edgeworth
My artwork is inspired by the depth and deception of the human personality. A person may create the view of themselves above the surface to be...
Savannah Mattyasovszky
Sold for: $100.00
Savannah Mattyasovszky
My work is inspired by the way each individual sees things. Do we all see the same colours? The same shapes? We may never know if we all see the...
Sera Strong
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Sera Strong
My work is inspired by me and...
Shona Shin
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Shona Shin
My work is inspired by the characteristics of light. As the theme is the art of deception, the word illusion was the first word that struck my mind....
Skye Gallagher
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Skye Gallagher
My work is inspired by what I see in the media everyday. 'Breaking' news about celebrities is thrown into our faces and the worldly problems...
Sophie Ward
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Sophie Ward
My work is inspired by how we perceive ourselves, physically and mentally and how we create dismorphed perceptions of ourselves. I've painted a...
Su Yeon Cho
Sold for: $85.00
Su Yeon Cho
My work is inspired by Summer 2018, the hottest summer in New Zealand's recorded history. The scorching hot temperatures produce illusions and...
Summerlee Vitali
Sold for: $42.00
Summerlee Vitali
My interpretation of the theme is the massic effect deforestation is causing to animals such as birds in nature, and how unaware we are to it. It...
Tanira Tango-Perawiti
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Tanira Tango-Perawiti
My work is inspired by swimming on a very hot day. When I am hot I dream of swimming on a hot day and enjoying the cool water. I can leave my...
Tasha Tunnicliffe
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Tasha Tunnicliffe
My work is inspired by the deception of perception. While some people are pessimists and see a negative view of things, some people are optimists and...
Tavia Bell
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Tavia Bell
My work is my own interpretation of the theme. It is a girl among cactus plants, with hands reaching out, camouflaged, this represents inner fear and...
Tim Lea
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Tim Lea
My work is inspired by the sadness of the lives of the homeless. To see that the lives of those who have a roof to sleep under and food to eat should...
Wayne Speedy
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Wayne Speedy
Often in the rush of life we neglect the projects we so desire to finish. New projects, new places and new opportunities. Causes us to discontinue...
Will Van Vroonhoven
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Will Van Vroonhoven
My work is inspired by the fact that product placement and advertisement causes people to buy unnecessary items, that have no purpose other than...
Xinyi Chen
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Xinyi Chen
My work is inspired by three dimensional painting. And the blue water is dropping on the canvas. The line behind the drops are not straight, however...
Xixi Lin
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Xixi Lin
The female figure is a symbolic representation of a young teenage mind. With wondering, confused eyes, looking out to her surrounding stars and...
Zeb Bradley
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Zeb Bradley
My artwork is inspired by my childhood watching the famous TV show "Thomas the Tank Engine". Do my eyes deceive me? Is that Thomas - a...
Zoie McKenzie
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Zoie McKenzie
My work is inspired by the obsession we have with technology and social media, especially us teenagers. Following the theme, I interpreted...