Inspiring Kids

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I conduct specialist light painting workshops for both secondary and primary schools.

I tailor my workshops to meet the required outcomes of teachers. Kids love playing with light, and this is a great way to develop their imagination and creative expression. It also helps them to understand the fundamentals of photography, being the interpretation and appreciation of light as a form of visual language.

I also mentor students to create light-inspired performances for school art festivals using my range of specialist light tools and have worked as an artist in residence for a number of schools.

In addition to the pleasure and learning experience students can get from these activities the school also gets memorable images to use for their promotional purposes and to share with parents, the community and on social media.

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"The light painting workshop with Peter Solness was one of the most amazing experiences ever. This workshop allowed me to learn how the use of light can create a variety of effects that greatly influence the image, where photography can take you in life as in career options and just how much fun photography can really be".
Alex, Year 12, Canberra Girls Grammar 23-10-18
"I can't express how happy I feel at this moment".
Student Comment, Wollongong High School of the Performing Arts 11-11-18
"Thank you again for the wonderful workshop you took with our students on Cockatoo Island. It was a great opportunity for the girls to explore photography in a new way. They really enjoyed the experience and have an enriched artmaking practice for it. It was their camp highlight".
Philomena Kezelos, Head of Creative and Performing Arts, Danebank
"The kids had a great day and learnt so much from you (as did the rest of us). You provided great inspiration for the students and I expect we will see some Solness influence in the work they produce".
Andrew Love, Visual Arts Teacher, Barker College 7-5-19
"Peter Solness orchestrated a light-based night event to celebrate the school's centenary year, bringing one hundred members of the school community together. He understood our aims and worked imaginatively and collaboratively with Visual Arts staff and senior Photography students to produce an astounding result".
Fiona Crawford, Head of Visual Arts, Cranbrook School 31/5/18
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Some schools I have recently worked for include: 

Abbotsleigh, Cranbrook School, Knox Grammar, Barker College, St Aloysius College, Mount St Benedict, Danebank, The Macdonald College, Gosford High School, Saint Patrick’s Marist College, Gilroy College, St Scholastica’s, Illawarra Grammar, Wollongong High School of Performing Arts, St Mary Star of the Sea College, Clancy College, Mont Sant’ Angelo Mercy College, St Augustines College, Emmaus Catholic College, St Ursulas, Catherine McAuley, Radford College Canberra, Canberra Girls Grammar, Presbyterian Ladies College Melbourne, Lindisfarne Tweed Heads and Woollahra Public.

I have also run light painting experiences for students camping overnight on  Cockatoo Island

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