Government of Western AustraliaPERCENT FOR ART SCHEME

WANNEROO SECONDARY COLLEGE • 2014

The new building at Wanneroo Secondary College compliments the beautiful garden setting and open plan design of the school campus. The split-level building with an internal lift and stairs provides accommodation for year 7 students, and features natural high-level light to all rooms.

Artist Eveline Kotai used the light filled interior spaces and building fabrics to create a sensitive and engaging artwork on five surfaces in three different media. Her work comprises of a connecting band of subtle colour and texture that travels up the glazing, across the ceiling and down the opposite wall. It reappears on the lift shaft and culminates in a printed image of a Mobius Strip that appears to float in space on the first floor balcony as one looks up to the next level. The band of shifting colour, tone and line corresponds to life’s transitions. The floating Mobius is symbolic of the world’s infinite connectedness and gives another dimension to the construction of habitable spaces.

Eveline also contributed to other artistic elements in the building such as the placement of external coloured CFS square shapes, the selection of pin up board colours and coloured dividing glass that provide privacy for classrooms. The cooperative relationship between artist and architect has resulted in the creation of an extraordinary internal space.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Artist: Eveline Kotai

Title: ‘Full Spectrum’

Architect: DWA Architects. Project Architect: Mark Langdon Design: Chun Chong (B.Arch)

Art Coordinator: Jenny Kerr

Photography: Eveline Kotai

Client: Mrs Pauline White Principal

Client Representative: Chris Bothams, Department of Education

Finance Project Delivery Manager: Shijin Jay