This year we had 12 students submit artwork to the Royal Academy A-Level Summer Exhibition. This is a prestigious exhibition that receives over 2,000 submissions, and artwork chosen is featured on the Royal Academy website. The deadline to enter was on the 11th of May, and we encouraged all our students to submit as many pieces as they wanted.
We then received some news when the exhibition opened on the 12th of June....
Chosen from over 2,000 submissions, Maddie Noble’s piece ‘Fagility and Decay’ was chosen to be exhibited in the online gallery, and Elisa Hurley’s ‘Safety Blanket’ was one of 19 commended works shortlisted by the judges. Well done!! This is a huge honour and a fantastic accomplishment!
Madeline Noble
'Fagility and Decay'
'I gathered inspiration from my own experiences with mental health as well as from Dutch still-life paintings that focus on deterioration of physical substances. The mind is extremely temperamental and can deteriorate very quickly, which I have portrayed by incorporating decay in my portraiture.'
'I gathered inspiration from my own experiences with mental health as well as from Dutch still-life paintings that focus on deterioration of physical substances. The mind is extremely temperamental and can deteriorate very quickly, which I have portrayed by incorporating decay in my portraiture.'
Elisa Hurley
'Safety Blanket'
'I interpreted the appearance of people hiding away in fear behind this protection barrier. This is the reason for me to recreate the window that acts like a safety blanket to take the impact of the destruction instead of damaging the freedom that people have. I chose to incorporate a large piece of fabric coated in plaster to represent a curtain that is set in place to eliminate the destruction from reaching into people's lives. As I have worked with plaster, it is a substance which can be broken easily. This represents the hope that people had when it came to them hoping that they would have been able to escape.'
'I interpreted the appearance of people hiding away in fear behind this protection barrier. This is the reason for me to recreate the window that acts like a safety blanket to take the impact of the destruction instead of damaging the freedom that people have. I chose to incorporate a large piece of fabric coated in plaster to represent a curtain that is set in place to eliminate the destruction from reaching into people's lives. As I have worked with plaster, it is a substance which can be broken easily. This represents the hope that people had when it came to them hoping that they would have been able to escape.'
This story was also covered by the Rotherham Advertiser, who came in to photograph Maddie and Elisa with their work on the exhibition evening as well as a group picture of all the students that had attended:
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