Charlotte wins best Set Design in the ROH Design Challenge

And the winner is...

Art & Design student Charlotte Dance has won one of the top awards at this year’s Royal Opera House Design Challenge.

Charlotte, who is in her second year of the Level 3 course, was crowned the winner of the Set Design category with her piece themed around Giacomo Puccini’s 1896 masterpiece, La bohème. It is the second year in a row that a student from the college has won the Set Design category and the eighth consecutive year that East Sussex College students have won top awards in the Design Challenge. The annual Design

Challenge competition runs in the Autumn term and invites students from colleges and universities across the country to compete in four categories; Set Design, Costume Design, Hair, Wig and Make-up Design, and Marketing Strategy and Design. Along with Charlotte’s success, two other Lewes students were highly commended for their entries. Ryley Ormond achieved a highly commended award in Set Design and Betty Taylor was highly commended in the Marketing Strategy category. James DiBiase, Art & Design tutor at Lewes, said, “What an

Charlotte wins best Set Design in ROH competition

exceptional achievement. We’re delighted that Charlotte has won best Set Design and that Ryley and Betty have been highly commended for their entries too. This represents a great deal of hard work and talent from our students and continues our fantastic success in this competition highlighting that Lewes is a college for creative excellence.” The winners will each get an exclusive behind the scenes tour of the Royal Opera House and have her work displayed in the ROH’s Linbury Foyer until 7th April 2020.