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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 25, No. 7. 1962.

Art Exhibition

Art Exhibition

The "Groin" school of anarchic abstractionists opened its Winter Exhibition in the C-floor gallery. Six paintings were on display, and Salient particularly noticed "A Glurk Trolling" an essay in cosmic awareness and "Still Life: Gas Guitar and Gumboots", which is an apt commentary on the school's declared credo of "Directed Nothingness manifested in Concentric Striving."

Another artistic efflorescence, or excrescence if you prefer, was a spontaneous outburst of satiric poetry which was channelled by the Warden into a poetry contest —contributions to be written in Petrarchan or Shakesperean sonnet form or terza rima. The prize was taken by an anonymous contributor, "Earwig," who seemed to be the only one of the three entrants who knew what a sonnet was.

This is Just a Touch of Things to Come. Womens' Hostels Vic. A., Helen Lowry, and Vic B. See if you can Reduce some of your Activities to Writing. "Salient" Guarantees to Print it.