The 18-year-old Ballarat resident and budding designer wanted to "do something a bit different" when her studio art colleagues were compiling photographic and painting folios and she found the difference in Victoria Park.

Using a large exercise ball as a mould, Ms Coburn, who completed her studies at Geelong Grammar School, took hundreds of sticks she collected in the park and glued them together around it, a labour of love that took her nearly the entire year to complete.

"It took a while, I would spend a couple of hours after school on it and it's not that big but it took a lot longer than I thought," she said.

"I sort of started with a triangle and built it from there and glued it around the ball with a hot glue gun.

"When it was finished I burst the ball and cut it up and pulled it out.

"It was great when I popped the ball, I could finally say I was finished."

Ms Coburn said though she was inspired by attending sculpture exhibitions, she is not sure yet that is where her future is headed.

Her artistic talent extends into the electronic field and this year she will begin a communication design degree at RMIT's city campus.

She finished her Year 12 visual communication class with a perfect score of 50.

"I'd like to see where it takes me, maybe into industrial design or architecture a graphic designer," she said.

"But my grandmother has asked me to make her a sculpture for her garden."