Exhibition and Awards Evening | 2018

As it is every year, our A2 students exhibition has been absolutely incredible. It was an ambitious task, including an interactive mining experience, a giant staircase, and a lino printed car door, but despite this being such a mammoth task the exhibition was put up in record time due to the sheer hard work and effort made by all of our students. The day of the exhibition was truly special, we showed local schools around and had a beautiful evening of awards, nibbles and the company of our lovely students and their friends and family. We have had so many comments about how impressive, professional and ambitious the exhibition looked, and how truly talented our students are. We of course absolutely agree! It has been amazing getting to know you all and we are sad to see you go, you will be missed!

We have also put together a video of us putting up the exhibition and footage from the day if you would like to check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZRAqfsXjY

Royal Academy A Level Summer Online Exhibition | 2018

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.'

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.'

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:

https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/leisure/view,fear-and-decay-impress-art-critics_27627.htm