Inside Out Project
Melbourne Girls' College Year 10 Visual Arts Students have created a powerful large scale artwork that supports the right of all children to live in safety, go to school, enjoy their childhoods and have hope for their futures.
Currently, there are many refugee children living in Nauru who don't have this freedom. We would like to see the removal all children living on the island of Nauru by World Children's Day – 20 November 2018.
The year 10 students put in a massive effort and worked together as a fantastic team to instal the 25 metre long mural on Monday 29th October on the exterior of the school gym, which can be seen from Yarra Boulevard. The artwork is comprised of 102 portraits of MGC students (taken by MGC students). Each one represents a child living on the island of Nauru.
The mural has been independently organised as an 'Inside Out Group Action'. Inside Out is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work. Participants are challenged to use black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share the untold stories and images of people around the world. The Inside Out Project is a creation of the artist JR, recipient of the 2011 TED Prize.
All Inside Out Projects are documented and archived and are available online at:
Special thanks to Oliver Hull, Visual Arts Technician, for his support installing the posters.
Emma McCowan
Visual Arts Teacher
Intercultural Understandings Leader