Steamroller Prints

These large-scale prints are a culmination of The Overwintering School Project, when linocuts by local high school students were printed using a 2-ton road roller during a day of "printmaking theatre"! Over the past few months, local artists Sara Bowen, Jo Elliott and JP Willis have worked together with 80 Year 9 and 10 students from Woolgoolga and Toormina High Schools to create linocuts of migratory shorebirds. Over the course of the project, students spent time in local shorebird habitat and worked with the artists, National Parks and Wildlife Service rangers, eco-poet John Bennett and volunteers from BirdLife Australia to learn about migratory shorebirds, once plentiful on the Coffs Coast but now threatened and endangered. Their beautiful and thoughtful linocuts bring this global issue close to home. Participating students and teachers: Toormina: Phoenyx Arnold, Will Bailey, Tori Blenman, Sharnte Cannon, Macie Gow, Macey Gray, Liam Hand, Mia Harding, Darelleigh Hickling, Freya Laidlaw, Demi Martin, Dylan O'Brien-Smith, Bree-Lily Pickering, Madison Rose, Jack Seccombe, Brooke Semenikow, Grady Spokes, Zach Stevenson, Kynan Weatherall, Chanae Winkler, Piara Yap Stokes Mariah Anderson, Rose Astill, Tarran Calcraft, Sharnte Cannon, Nikita Drobnjak, Jharn Garic, Dylan Garner, Jared Hall, Naomi Holzigal, Shannon Jeffs, Somayeh Khalili, Lilie Male, Tsega Okubasenbet Gebrezgabher, Kaylee Palmer, Taylor Roet, Thomas Smith, Jordy Spillman, Azura Thompson-Hope Nicole Browning, Wendy Winkler This project is supported by Create NSW's Audience Development Fund, a devolved funding program administered by Museums & Galleries of NSW on behalf of the NSW Government and BirdLife Australia

Steamroller print produced from linocuts made by Toormina High School students. The images depict migratory shore birds once plentiful on the Coffs Coast but now threatened and endangered.