Exhibition and Awards Evening 2017

As we come to the end of the academic year, we gave our A2's a warm send off with the traditional exhibition evening. As always, our exhibition evenings are so important in celebrating 2 years of very hard work by our students, and gives us a chance to congratulate all of them and wish them well in whatever endeavors they go on to.

To see a video showing us put up the exhibition and the finished product, head over to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-iUnd7wYyU

See below a word from our art team and photographs of a truly joyous evening. (Thank you to Steve Pidd for some lovely photos!)

'This year has been a year of great change. This year is the first to be assessed for the new linear qualification. The students themselves have had many new challenges - a new separately assessed written essay and new assessment levels.

Internally there have been many changes - the departure of the much loved Bev, the temporary but great influence of Marilyn and the new skills and exuberance brought by Abi and Patience. And of course the ever present skills and experience of Lyn and Sarah. The influence of all members of staff, new and old, can be seen in the exhibition. We have also become part of the newly formed ‘VAPAM’ department, and we are so grateful for the support of our new team and excited to see where we can all go!

We always seem to be lucky with our students, however this year we seem to have had a cohort of not just talented and ambitious students, but kind, thoughtful and all round good eggs. We are excited by their work and incredibly proud of all their diligence, determination and enthusiasm. There is work showing outstanding skill, thought and risk. We hope you are as impressed by their achievements as we have been!'

Art Awards 2017

Every year we wish we could give every single one of our students an award for their tremendous effort and beautiful work throughout the year - but with the growing amount of students I'm afraid Patience's hand would begin to ache with all the screenprinted awards notebooks she would have to print! So here are just some of the students that have been a privilege to work with these past 2 years.

Highly Commended In Fine Art – Amy Gillott

Highly Commended in Graphic Communication – Matilda Todd

Highly Commended in Photography – Nicole Roughley

Most Innovative in Fine Art – Jacob Barker

Most Innovative in Graphics – Humairaa Hussain

Most innovative in Photography – Finley Ardron

Outstanding Achievement across more than one endorsement – Charlie Yates

Outstanding Achievement across more than one endorsement – Briony Canning

Outstanding Achievement across more than one endorsement –  Phoebe Roe Parkin

Best Painter – Markos Kampourakis

Best Lino Printer – Xinyue Guan

Best Intaglio Printer – Stefanie North

Best Sketchbook – Riannon Davies

Most Improved in Fine Art – Francesca Gilardoni

Most Improved in Graphics  – Nicole Scarfe

Most Improved in Photography - Ellie Fairbrother

Special awards for Sohail Khalil and Dominica Mars for being with us for three years

Exhibition Prints

Charlie Yates, Megan Strutt, Matilda Todd, Leah May, Briony Canning, Molly Abdy, Riannon Davies and Nicole Scarfe collaborated to create this years exhibition prints that were sold on the evening. These were sold for £12 for an A3 frame and £8 for an A4, with profits split between the college charity and the department. We also raffled off a special print, but are still unsure who won! Mystery raffle winner number 4 please show yourself! 

Saatchi Art Prize 2017 Update | Congratulations Sohail!

The Saatchi Art Gallery has shortlisted 20 works from a tremendous 24,000 entries, and we are unbelievably thrilled to announce that our very own Sohail Khalil has been chosen as a shortlisted artist! This is an outstanding achievement for both Sohail and Thomas Rotherham College. His work was selected from a phenomenal amount of entries that were submitted from 66 countries around the world, and it will be exhibited with the other 19 pieces of artwork in the Saatchi Gallery in London between 4th-13th of July. 

Being part of this shortlist means we are in with a chance of winning one of these amazing prizes:

Overall winner: £10,000 to winning school, £2,000 to winning pupil 

Secondary school winner (ages 11-18): £5,000 to school, £1,000 to pupil 

Primary school winner (ages 4-11): £5,000 to school, £1,000 to pupil

The awards evening will take place at 7pm on the 4th of July, so we wish you all the luck Sohail! Well done on this exceptional accomplishment - we're very proud!

Visit the Saatchi Gallery website to see the full shortlist: http://www.saatchigallery.com/schools/prize/2017/

Sohail Khalil - 'Isolated Space'

Thomas Rotherham Arts Collective Launch!

 

Thomas Rotherham Arts Collective

On the 28th May, we launched the beginning of the Thomas Rotherham Arts Collective which has been inspired by the business challenge that our students took part in earlier in the year. Both students and staff have designed and created products that have been sold to the public at the Hillsfest Benefit on the bank holiday in the Sheffield City Hall. All designs and products were hand-made in the department!

 

This was a great success for a quiet event as we raised £140 due to the prints, cards, notebooks, sketchbooks, lampshades, drawings, bags and tea-towels that were displayed and sold at the event. Due to this success, we are continuously encouraging the students to take full control of the collective and to participate in future stall events to raise further money for the department and college charity.

 

We are hoping to make products available for sale in college so watch this space! Huge thank you to all students who contributed to the stall as we received many compliments by the public - particularly Amy Gillott and Isobel Frost. It was a joy to receive such positive feedback at a professional even organised by a well-known gallery.