BIG ONES LITTLE ONES cont.

FEEDBACK/COMMENTS from –

• Community
  I have been involved with Gallery Amichi and participated in 'Big Ones Little Ones' for 3 consecutive years. It is a multicultural art exhibition and it has given art students in Remote Indigenous Communities in Australia, including the Torres Strait Islands the opportunity to exhibit their paintings, along side of the professional established artists, in a big city like Sydney…(this year) St. Paul's Primary School, Moa Island has been selected to exhibit, and I am very happy because I come from St. Paul's and I had seen the faces of the art children participating in the art exhibition. I hope Gallery Amichi continues the very good work that no other art gallery is doing. Rosie Barkus, Torres Strait Islands Artist
  
  It was good to be part of the Big Ones Little Ones exhibition.
  It is good for the kids to be learning here and doing painting with their mothers and grandmothers and their aunties and sisters. When they leave school they can continue with that work, they can do art. We give education through art early. Aboriginal education in art - it's about passing on culture. We've got to teach them while they are young, about what the land is. This is the only place where we teach them that and it is encouraged by the teachers and the principal. It is good to see it grow. The stories and paintings give the kids ideas. When the kids see their paintings in an exhibition and they see their paintings getting bought by people, it makes then happy. Eastern Arrernte Elder, Alice Springs, NT
  
  In this time of conflict and misunderstanding among different people around the world, an event such as ‘Connecting communities' brings closeness and peace back into our world. We are all different, but each and every one of us is special and has some kind of uniqueness, which should be respected and appreciated. This is a great opportunity for our children, from The Very Special Arts group in the UAE, to participate and to be visible - through their work in the Big Ones Little Ones art exhibition. Our thanks and appreciation goes to Trish Amichi and Helen Schrader for their efforts in making this possibility a reality and our participation come true. Her Highness Shaikha Jameela Mohammed Al-Qasimi, Director General, Sharjah City for Humanitarian Services and Deputy Chairperson for the Family Supreme Council, Sharjah. 

• Local/ Overseas Little Ones
  Deadly!
  Surprised and overwhelmed (at being selected)
  I'm excited to know that my picture will be taken overseas by airplane
  It's just too good!
  Awesome!
  Really, really great!

• Local/Overseas visitors to the Exhibition (per Visitors' Book)
  Fantastic educational opportunity for children - both artists and visitors
  Inspirational - both art and stories!
  I am very happy and pleased to take pictures to my school in Vienna
  How wonderful to see so many children from so many areas with so much to share with us!
  Thank you. Beautiful! An amazing exhibition!
  A brilliant idea. Thank you!
  Extraordinary exhibition - all done with passion and heart
  Wonderful! Congratulations to the artist and organizer
  Exhibition was absolutely fantastic!!!
  Very moving and inspirational. Better than anything I've seen thus far in Sydney
  So beautiful and inspiring - sense of hope for the future. Thanks to all - so glad I got to see this.