The artworks of local students will take a tour around the south-east of Queensland now that they cover the outside of an industrial business’ ute.
A Mitsubishi Triton owned by mineral processing company Multotec, based in Berrinba, is covered in the artworks of Marsden State High School Students.
The collection of pieces was made to celebrate the personal experiences and cultural identities of students in years 8-10.
Cultures represented in the artworks include the Cook Islands, Australian, Japanese, Hmong, Gujarati/Hindi, and Cambodian.
The Logan River is used as a motif in several pieces to represent “the interconnectedness of the students’ lives”.
The school’s executive principal, Marcus Jones, said the partnership with Multitech was exciting.
“The opportunity for this traveling canvas of artwork to be around south-east Queensland is something that we don’t get very often,” he said.
“The thing that excites me most is that… we’re going to unwrap the car and wrap it every year so that this can be something that happens for all of our students.”
Multotec’s vice president of sales and service, Grahame Hopkins, said the business wanted to “give back to the community”.
“[The ute] travels all around south-east Queensland – as far north as Gladstone, goes out to Roma, down as far south as Coffs – where we service our clients.
“We wanted QR codes so when people look at it they can see the story of what it’s about.”
