Exploring Media Prize Winners | 2018

Before handing in their exploring media projects, our AL1 students were asked to present their work in the form of an Exhibition Board. This was asked to include an artist statement and the best pieces of work they’d produced since they started in September.

This year we decided to award prizes to students whose exhibition boards, sketchbooks, and outcomes have really impressed us. To show these off, we have exhibited them outside the principal's office near student services. 
We have also put up as many of the other boards as we could further down the corridor, so please take a look at them all if you're up there! 

Fine Art

Thomas Stocks
Exhibition Board

Hajrah Jawad
Exhibition Board

Harmonie Poce
Sketchbook

Olivia Hawley
Sketchbook

 Laura Turner
Outcomes

Mia Furniss
Outcomes

Graphics

Charlie Curran
Exhibition Board

Joshua Ratcliffe
Sketchbook

Photography

Alicia Whiteley
Exhibition Board

Amber Goulty
Sketchbook

Georgia Whitham
Outcomes

Addams Family Musical | College Production 2018

Here in art we love a college production! And like to get involved with performing arts to help in any way we can. This year was The Addams Family Musical, so we decided to create an edition of unique darkroom prints (following the success of last years Les Mis screen prints) and programmes to sell as keepsakes during the evenings of the production. One of our lovely A2 photography students Ally Boldan volunteered to take headshots of each cast member and edited them for us ready to use on our print design. Once we had this printed out on an acetate, we opened it up to any students who wanted to have a go creating an exciting print for us in the darkroom (thank you Chloe Porter for doing some of these for us!).Our PGCE student Jodie and ex-student Nicole then packaged these up in frames and cello bags with a variety of mounts - including wallpaper! - and they were then all ready to be sold.

We did really well over the 3 evenings, and raised a wonderful....... £81.08 profit! £40 of this will be donated to the colleges nominated charity Teenage Cancer Trust, so thank you to all the staff who helped in selling these, and everyone who bought them. 

Well done to our 1st prize raffle winner Chrissy! We hope you enjoy the chocolates :) 
We also decided to give a second raffle prize since we had a few prints left over, so another well done to Nat who has won a mounted print of her choice!

Cupola Under the Bed Sale | 2018

As we are always looking out for competitions and events to get involved with, this year we decided to enter some donated work into the infamous Cupola Under the Bed sale. We had a few ex-students from last who very kindly donated their work to the department and to TRAC, so we picked out some of our favourite pieces from their coursework to sell at the Cupola along with some older work that was also donated. If you have never visited the Under the Bed sale, it is a real experience! Piles and piles of paintings, canvases, photography, printmaking, sculpture, jewellery - the works! It was lovely to see our work displayed amongst so many beautiful pieces, with one of Nicole's skelebobs even taking pride of place on the wall next to the shop window!

Yesterday we received back our unsold work and how much we had made.

We made a respectable... £75! 

This is incredible from work simply just donated by ex-students, what a great way to make sure no work goes to waste and showcase some of the fantastic art that come out of our department.

We would love our current students to think about donating even just one piece of their own work when they come to collect next year, it makes such a difference to us!

Thank you to these particular students whose work was sold (and well done!):

Keira Cheetham

Georgia Collins

Nicole Roughley

Michaela Richardson