Art

from St. Francis' College Magazine 2022

Prep

The Recycled Fashion Show 2021, as always, was a triumph. Our artists did not disappoint on impact, style and conceived some wonderful costumes inspired by the theme Commedia dell’arte. In preparation we teamed up with the Drama department and we all took on the challenge of the one-day commedia dell’arte drama workshop, which was fun, exhilarating and thoroughly entertaining.

Congratulations to everyone who took part, you are all winners, and your costumes were incredible, well done. Together we raised a total of £1318.50 for The Kanyike Project.

The audience voted, and here are the results for the audience winners of 2021:

1st Lucy Jefford

2nd Molly Hamilton

3rd Shivani Dave

Distinctions:

Eloise Button

Edie Milan

Bianca Lam

Leana Kachiwala

Our Year 7, 8 and 9 have been of a wonderful programme of printmaking, ceramics, textiles, drawing and painting throughout the year, and we have been wowed by the creativity, innovation and enthusiasm.

Our five-star days have offered a trip to Tate Modern, a ‘one minute brief’ session, inspired by the twitter feed @OneMinuteBriefs; the quick-thinking creative community. One rule, one minute – create an advert! We also had some relaxation time with an afternoon of mindful colouring-in.

Our examination years have worked incredibly hard, fearless in the face of lockdown, they have produced outstanding, thought-provoking, intelligent and contemporary work. We were able to celebrate their fabulous achievements at our end-of-year Art exhibition on the 29th June.

Scarlett Sharma and Sofia Grant designed and created personalise artwork for the Deputy Head’s office, and Robyn Norwood hosted an Oscar day championing filmmaking and creativity.

We spent a wonderful day at the V&A with our sixth form students totally immersing ourselves in the wonderful Alice exhibition and marvelled at the wise words of Grayson Perry at the Art in Action Seminars.

Year 7 and 8 students spent an afternoon with Mrs Wilson constructing London landmarks and using experimental photography to record them. The outcomes are incredible, well done.