Photo by Khim Hipol

Name: Matt McInnes

Age: 17

School: Sutherland

Art teacher: Veis Dokhani

Favourite kind of art: Acrylic painting

Favourite artist: Brian Froud

Veis Dokhani writes: "Matt is a very talented and creative student who commits a lot of time to completing work with quality in mind. Matt demonstrates great communication, patience, perseverance and problem solving skills, and has great observational and technical skills both in 2D and 3D art. Matt is innovative and demonstrates great planning and project management skills, and uses higher level thinking strategies to apply learned skills to new projects. He creates conceptual, meaningful art and uses creative and clever image development strategies in his creative process. He is able to independently create projects in a logical and analytical way".