Where are they now? | Issy Marshall

 We always love to hear from our ex-students and see where they are and what they are up to now, and a few weeks ago we were thrilled to hear from Fine Art and Graphics student Issy Marshall about her new work and hearing about her starting her own business! We asked her to write us a blog post about what she did after leaving TRC in 2021 and what she is up to now. Lovely to hear from you Issy!

Hi, I’m Issy 😊

I studied Fine Art and Graphic Communication during my time at TRC. After I had completed my A Levels, I went on to do a course in 18+ Art Foundation at Hillsborough college. However, this was nowhere near as good as my A Levels, and I got a job for a local car wrapping company where I was head of their marketing and social media. Pretty cool if you ask me.

During my time at TRC, learning to gather as much information and constantly experiment helped me during my time at Hillsborough. And of course, doing many photoshoots over the course of my A Levels helped me know a thing or two on grabbing content for my marketing job.

As of right now however, I am currently building my own business where I will hopefully start to sell prints and other items by the start of next year. Over the course of 2022, I have been designing posters and prints using procreate and building up my own social media pages. I hope that in the next few years to grow my business and have it become my full-time job. I also want to have my own shop and studio space where I can teach workshops on printing methods and graphic design to the general public.

Check out Issy on Instagram for some super work and reels showing her process creating her designs!

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Artist of the Month | September 2022

Well here we are - October already! For our brand new Y12 students - welcome to your first ever Artist of the Month! To our Y13s - welcome back! 

For anyone unfamiliar with Artist of the Month, this is our chance as staff to showcase all the fantastic work going off within the department. Nominations for AoTM are chosen for a wide variety of reasons, sometimes it is for a student who has worked particularly hard that month, maybe someone who took a risk and created a super piece of practical work, or maybe their enthusiasm and commitment to the subject has really impressed us. Whatever the reason, we use this platform to share just some of the superb work produced by our students across all three subjects.

So without further ado, a massive congratulations to our first Artists of the Month of this academic year!

 A1 Fine Art - Akisha Bautista

 A1 Fine Art - Fleur Bishton

 A2 Fine Art - Lucy Bryan

 A1 Graphics - Lily-Mae Culyer

 A2 Graphics - Evie James

 A1 Photography - Freya Crookes

 A2 Photography - Lucy Gill Kimber