Artist of the Month | January 2017

January's over folks!
A2 students have now handed in their coursework and are starting to prepare for their exam, and AS's are beginning to finish off their work so far and start on their coursework - this is the time of year where all your hard work really starts to come together and look lovely and beautiful and amazing!
Here are a few people that have really stood out for us this month with their super work and effort:

AL Fine Art - Ameela Ghani

AL Graphics - Anna Worrall

AL Photography - Chloe Moulding

A2 Fine Art - Riannon Davies

-Riannon's entry for the Saatchi Art Prize

A2 Graphics - Phoebe Roe-Parkin

A2 Photography - Charlie Yates


-Charlie's entry for the Saatchi Art Prize

Saatchi Art Prize Entries 2017

The entries have been sent off for this years Saatchi Art Prize! Thank you to everyone who spent the time to put their entries together despite being super busy preparing for the coursework hand in. We have had some STUNNING entries and we're so excited to show them off to everyone!

http://www.saatchigallery.com/schools/prize/2017/artist.php?id=704

Here are is a list of the students that have entered:

Amy Gillott

'Painting Sounds'

Briony Canning

'Rams Skull'

Briony submitted 10 pieces of Art and Photography work to the competition, check out the website to see them in full

Charlie Yates

'Life and Loss'

Jacob Barker

'Mockery of Nature - Regeneration'

Jacob also submitted more than one entry, have a look on the website for more

Jade Bradley

'Time, Aging and Texture'

Megan Strutt

'Seamstress'

Riannon Davies

'Scars on the Skin'

Sohail Khalil

'Isolated Space'

Well done for some fabulous work! Good luck!

Artist of the Month | December 2016

Congratulations to our December artists of the month! 

AL Fine Art - Madeline Noble

AL Graphics - Charlotte Skingle

AL Photography - Sara Kiani

A2 Fine Art - Molly Jeffcock

A2 Graphics - Ella Shields

Coming Soon!

A2 Photography - Nicole Roughley

Coming Soon!

Mission Christmas

This year, the Art Department were involved in a charity even named Mission Christmas which is created by HallamFM. There are thousands of children living in poverty at the moment in South Yorkshire alone as the statistics show 1 in 3 children are living in poverty. Therefore, these children do not have anything to unwrap on Christmas Day which many of us take for granted.

The charity is all about each one of us buying one extra gift at Christmas which can then be donated to children who are living in poverty: to as young as a new-born baby to as old as an 18 year old. The gifts needed to be new and unwrapped so HallamFM they donate the appropriate gifts to the children of South Yorkshire.

The Art Department had a big decorated box downstairs so students and staff were able to donate gifts. The box filled quickly and was soon overflowing!! It was such a great response!!

On Friday 16th December (last day before the holidays) the presents were counted and there had been 73 presents donated which were given to the underprivileged children! This was amazing and we would like to thank everyone for the donations and for spreading the word!

The Art Students were also amazing toward this as they were very positive toward the mission!

We are planning on continuing this event each year - thank you once again to everyone involved.

Upcycling Business Challenge Event and Results!

As mentioned in an earlier blog post - this year the Art Department decided to become a part of Business Challenge Event that is held by the Rotherham Youth Enterprise. The competition was called "The Upcycling Event" and it consisted of the students generating ideas on how they could recycle found materials in a unique, innovative and professional manner.

Patricia Burke came into the Art Department for a session in order to help the Art students on how to complete the business side of the competition. We had one student in the team who was studying Business but a part from Ella Shields, the other students have not gained experience in Business so this workshop was incredibly beneficial.

 Team Name: Luxury Lino
Members: Charlie Yates, Megan Strutt, Lauren Oxley, Leah May and Ella Shields

Initial Presentation

There were 11 teams that presented their ideas to a panel at Thomas Rotherham College. The panel then decided which three teams would attend the final event at the Rockingham Professional Development Centre. Luxury Lino came 1st place at this point in the competition as the judges thought the idea was innovative, feasible and well planned.



The Event

During the event at the Rockingham Professional Development Centre, each team were given an A1 display board which had three sides to it. The teams had to showcase their ideas and plans along with the products on these display boards and tables. Once each team was ready to present their ideas in front of their tables, the countdown begun. The teams had to present their ideas eight times to eight different groups of judges! That is a lot of talking for one day! At first the teams were nervous but once they got into the flow, they gave confident and well prepared presentations. Each of the presentation were to last for 15 minutes each which included time for the judges to ask relevant questions to the teams. Once the final presentation had finished, it was lunch time which the students got to enjoy a huge buffet of goodies! During lunch, the judges discussed the ideas and presentations with one another so they could allocate the prizes.









The Judges Critique

The judges said 'The team should be really proud of their performances on the day and what they achieved'.

Positives

• Fab eco-friendly idea and a sellable product
• Confident team work
• Super presentation with great graphics
• Good research and well planned
• Room to expand
• Can see the big impact on the environment
• “I’ve placed my order”
• “Would buy”

Things to work on

• Would have liked to see an insert in their cards
• Think about the quality of the product

The Results

Luxury Lino won 'Best Team Presentation' and £10 each. Congratulations guys!



We would also like to say a big well done to our very own Nicole Scarfe who won 3rd place and the 'Best Business Plan' award with the Business Studies team.

Artist of the Month | November 2016

Here are this months artists that have really impressed us!

AL Fine Art - Beth Harper

AL Graphics - Jenson Barber

AL Photography - Beth Harper

A2 Fine Art - Caitlin Boyle

A2 Graphics - Jade Bradley

A2 Photography - Sohail Khalil

Shaun Edwards Titans Academy Training Session

Welsh national team defensive coach and rugby league player Shaun Edwards recently ran a training session at TRC for our Titans Academy players. This session was photographed by our very own Leah May and Briony Canning!

These photo's were consequently used in the official Titans Match Day Programme:

Well done girls!