Australia Day 2016: Google Doodle’s Art On This Day Explained By Teen Artist Ineka Voigt
Australia National Day 2016 has Google Doodle’s art on this day, celebrating a young artist named Ineka Voigt. She won the Doodle 4 Google program in Australia, so her artwork is being featured for all the world to see. The work of art is called “Stolen Dreamtime,” and she has explained the meaning behind the symbolism displayed by the Google Doodle.
Back in 2015, the Doodle 4 Google contest had more than 26,000 high school students across Australia submit their art for the Australia Day 2016 contest. On their Google Doodles page, Leticia Lentini, Brand and Events Marketing Manager for Google Australia, explained the idea behind the contest.
“For the last 10 years we’ve been running the Doodle 4 Google program in Australia — an opportunity for school-age artists to apply their own personal artistic vision to the Google logo and transform it into a work of art,” she said. “The winners then have their artwork placed on the Google Australia homepage for all to see. It’s like a young artist’s work being pinned on the biggest fridge in the country.”
The national winner won a Chromebook laptop, a Nexus tablet, and $10,000 worth of technology for the winning school; Canberra High School in ACT. The inspiration for the Google log was the theme “If I could go back in time I would…”
RELATED REPORTS BY THE INQUISITR
Australia’s MLK Moment? Stan Grant’s Pivotal Speech On Racism Goes Viral
Steve Irwin, Australia Day, And Lopping The Heads Off Tall Poppies
‘Spoiled Brat’ Daria Gavrilova Promises Bright Future For Australian Tennis Despite Open Exit
‘Albino’ Great White Shark Washes Ashore In Australia
Serena Williams And Maria Sharapova To Face Off In Australian Open 2016 Quarter Final
Nigel Sears Collapses At Australian Open, Andy Murray’s Father-In-Law Expected To Be Released From Hospital Soon
In order to answer that question, Ineka celebrated Australia Day 2016 with “Stolen Dreamtime,” a work of art featuring two women, a child, and an eye full of grief.
“If I could travel back in time I would reunite mother and child,” the teen artist explained. “A weeping mother sits in an ochre desert, dreaming of her children and a life that never was… all that remains is red sand, tears and the whispers of her stolen dreamtime.”
Other winners of the Australia Day 2016 contest included Years 1-3 Billy Mahaffy, Scotch College Junior School, WA; Years 4-6 Samuel Nelson, St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, QLD; and Years 7-8: Shalayne Smith, Marymount College, QLD. The National Age Group Winners had their works of displayed at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney for the unveiling of the National Winner.
In past years, the Australia Day Google Doodle has featured other young artists, including 2013 winner Olivia Kong from Hornsby Girls High School with her vision for “If I was an explorer.” In 2001, Timothy Winkels from Padua College in Victoria won the Google Doodles contest with his vision of “My Future Australia.”
Australia Day 2016 is celebrated on January 26 annually in order to make the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales, and the raising of the Flag of Great Britain at Sydney Cove by Governor Arthur Phillip. Every year, awards are given out to exceptional Australians who represent the country to the rest of the world. Besides young artists like Ineka Voigt, Australia Day awards will go to scientists, doctors, bankers, and even tennis stars.
[Image via Ineka Voigt/Google Doodles]
