The exhibition called "Home" has been on display to the public since July 12 and finishes on July 30 and it features art pieces from homeschool children aged 3-15.

The children chose their own medium to create their art pieces including acrylic, pastels, collage, sculpture and photography to express what home means to them.

Several homeschool families participated in the exhibition and the children's art pieces varied from paintings of objects that remind them of home, paintings of cultural symbols that represent home to them and sculptures of animals found around the home.

Quinn Candler, aged 8, explained what home meant to her, "Well home to me makes me feel safe and secure and it takes all my worries away".

For her art piece, Quinn painted the gumtree in the backyard because, "It's the only gumtree in the backyard and it's really, really cool and it makes me think of home when I look at it".

Maia Jarvis, aged 13, painted a Tiki and said this represents home because, "It reminds me of New Zealand and its Maori and it's something that Maori people treasure for a long time". Maia has been living in Mount Isa for over three years and misses New Zealand and wanted to pay homage to her home by creating this piece.

One sculpture was created for the exhibition by 11-year-old Slaton Page, who made a Tartar Lizard Lophognathus gilberti with clay.

Slaton said, "The lizard reminds me of home because I like lizards".

He said that he often sees Tartar Lizards at his house and once found some eggs while digging in his backyard. He collected the eggs with his family, incubated them, watched them hatch and then released the baby Tartar Lizards back into the wild.

The youngest artist, Juniper Jones, aged 3, created an acrylic painting using leaves, grass and flowers found in the wild as stamps, dipping these objects into paint and stamping them onto her canvas. When asked what home means to her, she said, "Playing outside in nature with my sister and brother."

Mount Isa's homeschool community has been steadily growing the last year with 51 members in the Mount Isa Homeschooling Facebook group. The group regularly organises educational events for the children to participate in and socialise with other children.

This exhibition is one of the many activities that the homeschool community is a part of and they would welcome other opportunities to be involved in the Mount Isa community.

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