We're inviting young people to share artistic representations of what taking up space means to you, and think about how you express your identity and prioritise yourself.
It could be feeling confident to be yourself and express your identity, challenging yourself, asserting your boundaries or prioritising yourself.
This could be photography, collage or mixed media, a piece of writing, sculpture, a poem, a drawing or sketch or anything else creative.
Would you like to share what Taking Up Space means to you? Submit an entry using photography, collage, mixed media, a poem, or drawing. Anything creative that speaks to you!
Entries will be featured on our website and you will be entered into the draw to win one of four $100 gift cards. To enter the competition, send an image of your entry to abbyh@genwest.org.au by 15 December 2023.
Art competition submissions:
Cara - she/her - 15
This is my entry on taking up space. I chose reading because not only is it such a big part of my life, it is so to many others all around the world. It takes up space physically of course, with all the amazing variety of books we have, but also so much of it is stored in our mind, hence taking up space. We learn and expand our knowledge every time we read :D
Book reads: “would you like to go on a little holiday?" Asks mum, the moment she’d shake me awake. I sat up in bed and stared at her. ‘Don’t wrinkle your nose like that!’ she said. ‘You look like a rabbit.’ ‘I like rabbits,’ I said. I’d been begging for a pet rabbit for months.
Felix - he/they - 15
Piper
This piece is about my life and me getting to choose my path of weirdness to take up my unique spot on this planet with my imaginary friends and real friends by my side!
Creation called: “Choosing my own path”
“Forge your own path to take up unique spots in the world.”
Abby - she/her - 14
This picture represents a barrier blocking out actual thing that take up space and at the top part it represents things that make people feel happy and that they do take up space.
Huseyin
Anonymous
Kawaii - she/him
