I love the Year 12 show, every April I wait for it with baited breath, wondering what talent is going to be unearthed. This is my third one in WA and the second I have seen this year. I was lucky enough to see the NSW show in Sydney in February.

There is always an immense amount of talent on display and it's always a joy to search it out. Last year the star of the show was Christian de Viteri but this year it's a bit more difficult to pick out the best. Like the current AFL season, it's all very even.

I have always found that the Year 12 show is tinged with a bit of sadness, it showcases all the young artistic talent in Perth but these talented ones only seem to come from Perth's 'best' schools. It's a comment on education and arts funding in this State.

The event is always incredibly well attended, and draws on a large number of disciplines; painting, sculpture, textiles, photography, and the computer generation.

The entrance is filled with a huge sculpture of a skate boarder against a bright orange background.With his big eyes, huge teeth and all the confidence of youth, he brandishes his pizza box. The piece has a car wheel rim for a plinth, perhaps his next mode of transport.

Mark Tweedie's portrait, 'The Titillation of Saint Anthony' is the probably the most accomplished painting in the room. The subject stares back at us, left eye forced open with a look half crazy and half amused. Sat in a tired old chair and in threadbare clothes he could be looking at the TV, anything.

Of the more abstract subjects Joelle Vincent's 'Fremantle' involves 30 small interchanging panels about the wharf and the sea. The man-made and the natural share the same colours yet different forms and the piece illustrates this perfectly.

On a more spiritual level Kiara Rechichi's 'Human Complexity' deals with the multi-layered human soul. It's a great piece in mixed media, combining three levels of viewing, creating great depth. Almost sculptural in form, it makes a great impression on the viewer.

Andre Ozturk's 'Lord of the Cats' is a great piece of sculpture, you half expect it to flick its tail at you while you're looking at it. The glass marbles are an ideal medium for this subject, the fluidity of the glass works well considering all the movements we associate with cats.

All the creations show a huge breadth of human emotion and experience dealing with personal as well as environment issues, proof, if it were ever needed, of the level of personal development achieved by Year 12. Technique is something that will come with time (and change over it) as only a tiny percentage of this years Year 12's, Australia wide, will become full fledged artists, even though more have the talent to do so.