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Young artist dominates at Whittlesea Show

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Grace Frost
Grace Frost
Hi, I'm Grace Frost. I was honoured to report for the Review as their Digital Journalist from mid-2022 to the beginning of 2024. Ive since made a move to the Herald Sun.

By Grace Frost

Year nine student Edith Marchant took out multiple wins at the Whittlesea Show last month for her ‘outstanding’ artworks.

Edith, known as Edie, 14, entered four pieces in the show, including two paintings, one set of prints and a wooden chopping board, with two receiving a combined four awards as top exhibits.

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Her wooden chopping board, which she designed in woodwork class at school, was acknowledged in three different categories as a top piece. The board was intricately calculated to fit together with multiple different wood cut-offs.

Edie said many steps of the design process proved difficult.

“I had some basic design things [I had to follow], it could only be so big. I just about got right on the line of how big it could be,” she said.

“There was an annoying amount of math. There was one point where I had to size up the drawing to fit natural life-size scale. That was painful.

“I’m not bad at math, but that was not fun. You had to do it by hand because a calculator would just spit it out.”

The math proved itself worthwhile, Edie’s piece taking first prize in the small article of woodwork category as well as the most outstanding exhibit for 13-17 year olds.

The piece was then awarded the Norma Murphy Perpetual Trophy, for an outstanding exhibit in junior handcraft.

A Whittlesea Agricultural Society spokesperson said Norma Murphy was a long-standing stewardess in the handcraft pavilion.

“She was in fact superintendent for some time in that same handcraft area … The family provide the trophy in memory of Norma,” the spokesperson said.

She also won second prize in the art, any medium, 12-14 year old category for her mixed media painting.

Edie said the piece took inspiration from nature, with blue green tones and watercoloured illustrations of birdlife incorporated.

“Usually, after I win something, I kind of wonder why,” she said.

“I guess it’s because I would have stared at it for hours on end until I no longer like it, and then someone else sees it with fresh eyes as it goes, ‘oh, that’s nice’.

“There were some really epic tapestries in the home crafts section, which is one of the reasons why I was like, ‘why did they choose my little chopping board?’”

Edie said she was excited to continue creating in 2023, and looked forward to projects in her metal work class at school, which could foster larger scale pieces for the next show.

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