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Woven Together, Set Apart
 A North Shore resident has won the Yellow Pages Group Art Awards for Auckland, thanks to support from her school and votes from the public.
Jennifer Gottschalk is a teacher in Kristin Middle School whose artwork has been chosen as the cover of the 2009 Auckland White pages. Over 50 entries were received for the annual competition which were narrowed down to three finalists in October last year by an expert panel of judges.
If it were not for Kristin School, Jennifer would never have entered the competition. Whilst working in the Maths faculty, she needed to call a colleague, and, in the process noticed an advert for the Art competition. In a 'moment of madness', she decided to enter.
Being chosen as a finalist was a huge surprise and the start of a 'personal campaign'. For the first time, the winner was selected by public voting which meant asking as many people as possible to go to the Yellow Pages Art Awards website and vote.
“Kristin is an amazing place to work and learn. The staff and students have been unbelievably supportive and I’d like to thank them, my family, friends and contacts for helping my artwork take first place,” Jennifer said.
The piece, “Woven Together” uses images and symbols that Aucklanders can easily identify with. The message of the piece is simple – celebrate our diversity whilst working together as a larger community.
Many might assume that Jennifer is an Art or Design teacher at the Albany school, however, her subjects are actually Science and Mathematics, which plays an important part in the winning piece. The intricate woven background is a computer generated fractal. This means that the pattern repeats itself at every scale. Simply put, if you have the correct software and the original parameters, you could keep on zooming into the image and the woven design would not become pixilated or 'blocky'. Jennifer says that, “whilst fractals are 'a Maths thing', one does not need to be a mathematician to create and enjoy them. All you need is the software, a lot of patience and time.”
It is clear that Jennifer's artwork also includes creative talent but her humble nature is reluctant to admit it. Jennifer receives a cash prize of $2000 for her piece as well as the knowledge that the Yellow Foundation Trust will auction the artwork off and donate the money to the charity, Project K who work in the community to maximise youth potential.
“Overall the experience has been extremely positive and the long wait for official results has been worth it.” Jennifer said.
The new Auckland White pages will begin to be distributed across the region this month.
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