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Wednesday, July 5, 2000 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER C1 Aits & Entertainment O akville B eaver E ntertainm ent Editor: Carol Baldwin 845-3824 {Extension 254); Fax: 337*5567; E-mail: baldwin@ haftonsearch.com First prize winner I just wasn't allowed because I didn't have the money to pay for the film. As soon as I ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR got a job, I started doing it. And I took it in school." People are a source o f inspiration, says And, ironically, just weeks after she won artist Ashlea Wessel. the art scholarship, her communications `T h e y 're something that's around me teacher at White Oaks Secondary School, every single moment o f my life. There are who introduced her to photography and always people there," says the first prize film, died. winner of the Art Scholarship 2000, award "I spent so much time with him. Even ed by the Oakville Galleries Volunteer Asso when I wasn't in his class, I'd be in his class ciation. `T h e y just influence you more than developing pictures," she says, with an anything else. People are so interesting. Art obvious catch in her throat. "He spent so should be done about them. And I find the much time with m e...I had a video due for a form really interesting." class (two days before her teacher, Harold However, she adds, even though she does Patterson, died), and he paint and sketch those spent most the day with inspirational human "I really like doing film me, editing the forms, her interest real because I g et to do film ...H e was a huge ly lies in filming and influence on everything photographing them. photography, bu t I g et to I did." And the OAC graduate express creativity w ith m ore Although Patterson is having difficulty than ju s t th e visu al - sound, was the human influ finding a university arts ence on Wessel's work, program that will allow everything. A nd m ovem ent is movies provided the her to major in those really im portant to m e, too. cultural influence, two artistic pursuits, / think ihaVs m ore exciting which explains Weswith a performing arts sel's passion for film. minor. Consequently, than photography." "I really like doing she says, she will prob film because I get to do ably spend her $2,000 scholarship money on photography, but I get photography courses. to express creativity with more than just the visual - sound, everything. And movement The portfolio that the 18-year-old sub is really important to me, too. I think that's mitted for the scholarship competition con more exciting than photography," she sisted of mostly photography, with some explains. "Even the form - to show it to paintings, video material and, o f course, an people - is more interesting to me than hav installation piece, which she created from ing it on a wall in a gallery. I'd rather have PVC piping. people become more immersed in it." "It was actually a body; and I used a TV for the head and a video for the face. So, it was kind of two kinds of art together as one piece," she explains. Photo by Peter C. McCusker Installation pieces are not her forte, Ashlea Wessel, winner of this year's though. She has definitely developed an Oakville Galleries Volunteer Associa affinity for the shutter and lens. tion's art scholarship, enjoys working "I didn't get a camera until I was in with the human form in ail media, par Grade 9 or 10," she says, explaining that her ticularly in photography and film. first camera was a hand-me-down from her B y C a ro l B aldw in father. 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