Art

As trips were able to resume this year post-covid, Art pupils were able to visit exhibits at the Tate Modern, The Royal Academy, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Central St Martin’s in London as well as The Lightbox in Woking.

Our Artist in Residence, Miss Emma Trussler, led our Art Scholars as they completed an entry for the Haslemere Hen competition and exhibited their artwork in the foyer of Haslemere Museum.

There were multiple exhibitions in our own Bunker Gallery as well as art competitions across the year including pupil artwork featured on the School Christmas card, the House Art Competition with 1st prize awarded to QMH and a Hallway Art Competition. The winning entries from the Hallway Art Competition have been hung along the Southside corridor. Two pupils submitted designs that were shortlisted for the UK final Junk Kouture competition. Junk Kouture guidelines require that all entries are created from 100% recycled materials. The UK final takes place in September 2022.

Mrs Caroline Shouksmith, Head of Art, was instrumental in bringing Finding Mat Finderling to life. She has been an inspiration to this year’s graduating art pupils as evidenced by the fact that one plans to study architecture, another hopes to study interior architecture, and another pupil hopes to study 3D design next year at university. Mrs Shouksmith will be missed as she departs having accepted the role of Head of Art at St Andrew’s School in Turi, Kenya. We wish her all the best and many safe adventures.