Art to leave a lasting impression

NOBLE Park artist Ching Phan is graduating with a Chisholm Institute Diploma of Visual Arts.
To celebrate, he and fellow graduates are putting on an exhibition at the Cardinia Cultural Centre (CCC) in Pakenham titled Last Impression. It runs from 18 to 31 October.
Mr Phan, originally from Vietnam, has produced two large works in acrylics on canvas.
Dorothy Cook from Chisholm Institute, Dandenong, said the work was “stunning”.
“His use of plaster and bold brushwork vividly portrays the heat and threat of engulfment by an ancient natural phenomenon that regularly confronts Australians’ modern, urban lives,” she said.
She said the exhibition featured a diverse set of images from the dynamic, multicultural group of graduating artists.
“This group of 11 has a true melting pot of experiences, backgrounds and ideas — matureage students returning to study, young people not long out of school, and (people of) diverse nationalities including Hungarian, Egyptian, Lebanese, Mauritian, Jewish and Vietnamese.”
Chisholm painting teacher David Trout said the Last Impression exhibition promised exactly that to leave a lasting impression on viewers.
“It has been gratifying to see the students develop their work and to find a level of personal commitment that I don’t think they had when they entered the course,” he said. “I think the success of this exhibition is that the art has some honesty. It is not trying to be pretty or trendy.”
The CCC Gallery, in Lakeside Boulevard in Pakenham, is open from 10am to 4pm including weekends.
For details, phone 1300 887 624. The art works will be for sale.