Damyana Moma 1st Prize Core Community Services Talent Show
Damyana Moma in Year 11 is a student who has a passion for Visual Arts. Recently, she entered a Talent Show exhibition run by Fairfield City Council where she submitted six artworks demonstrating her skills across a variety of art materials including, acrylic and oil paint and mixed media works exploring pastel with pencil.
Damyana is an active member of the Youth Service Team at Core Community Services in Cabramatta. She spends many afternoons and nights running an art program for members of her community focusing on drawing and painting. She hopes to inspire and encourage her students to participate in activities run by the community. Damyana is a thoughtful and kind student who hopes to give her students an opportunity to showcase their talents, building their confidence, abilities and courage.
Rewind back to 2017, Damyana says she “started creating art when I was in Jordan at the end of 2017, I chose arts because I could not go to school there, so I decided to devote my time to develop a talent for art. A significant moment was when I went to Sunday school as a helper in Visual Arts classes and I was surprised when I saw students did use these classes as an opportunity to learn new skills. I promised myself to dedicate my time to teach myself art in order to be able to teach others”.
Many of Damyana artworks are large scale and very detailed, she stated “it depends on the artwork, I spent around 2 hours drawing the portrait and 4 full day painting Van Gogh’s Self portrait, I like to challenge myself especially when I feel that I am not improving my skills. I pick a subject that is difficult to challenge myself, so I decided to painting a complicated self portrait of Vincent Van Gogh as I was intrigued by the colours, texture and structure. This particular painting took me 4 days to complete”.
Tiana Krasic, Visual Arts Teacher
Damyana’s award winning portraits
