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This year’s Ōrewa College annual wearable art competition, on August 30, saw more than 50 creative entries from students aged from Year 7-13.
The aim is to turn trash into soundly constructed, wearable garments.
Teacher Gail Boshard says students had to think outside the box about what is considered to be trash. Garments were made from items such as old plant containers, a tent, and even a year’s supply of chip packets.
There were 42 entries from Year 7 and 8 students, who created a huge range of garments that included mermaids, transformers and even portaloos.
Brooklyn Hope-Jensen won this category with ‘Lest We Forget’.
Tough competition among the Year 9s and 10s saw Abby Birks and Maria Walker-Kinnell tie for first place. Abby made her entry named Senbazuru (1000 cranes) out of a thousand origami cranes and Maria’s ensemble was put together with toilet roll inners and garden pots to represent wild bees coming into a flower garden.
The winner of the Senior category was Year 13 student Amy Blomquist who ingeniously turned an old tent into a butterfly.
From tent to butterfly – Amy Blomquist’s prizewinning ‘Tent-a-morphosis’.
The college’s learning support centre students worked together using many old pens, including some contributed by the community, in their garments.
