SMH: After everything was destroyed by floods, National Art School steps up for students
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SMH: After everything was destroyed by floods, National Art School steps up for students
Article: Lenny Ann Low
Year 12 visual arts students Lily Shepherd and Elena Matiussi-Pimm in Lismore. Photo: Elise Derwin
When the record-breaking floods of late February inundated Lismore they took away the creative output of hundreds of school children.
Art works, big and small, made for fun or final exams, were lost as rising waters entered classrooms claiming everything. Amidst them, countless paintings, drawings, ceramics and sculptures created by year 12 students for the HSC
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