YOUNG, aspiring artists have been able to draw-on the expertise of Tamworth success-story Annie Everingham and her experience breaking into a creative industry.
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Miss Everingham came back to town this week to help out her high school teacher Tina Poder deliver a practical workshop with Year 9 and 10 students in the art gallery.
The Tamworth-raised artist hoped the workshop create a sense of equality for regional kids and their city counterparts.
“It’s an opportunity for the kids to have a perspective of art and tap into some of those resources that city kids might have access to,” Miss Everingham said.
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“Regional cities like this see just as much creativity and there is just as much potential as there is for kids in the city.
“Coming back and getting them engaged in creative works and practices is really important to me because it gives that extra lifeline to resources that they wouldn’t have access to normally.”
Tamworth High art teacher, Tina Poder, said the students, from her school, Oxley and Farrer, had been able to tap into generations of local art expertise.
“It was very much a Tamworth cross-generational thing, Peter Hooper ran our first workshop, he was my art teacher,” Ms Poder said.
“Annie was my student, who’s now a practicing artist.”
Ms Poder said the workshop should show local kids anything was possible regardless of their postcode.
“You can’t overestimate how important it is,” she said.
“You can be a country kid and make a career in art without having to live in Sydney or Melbourne.”