The Arts Society Henley rewards local talent
Each year members of The Arts Society Henley are delighted to congratulate the ‘Star Student’ winners of our A level Art Award and to see their work.
We select one or two of the very best pieces from the end-of-year A level shows at Henley College, The Piggott School and Shiplake College for this award. This time the standard of work was incredibly high, and the judges had a real struggle to restrict their selection to just two pieces of art from each school. They chose six exceptional and diverse works of art. The creations also show a real variety in the media used by the students: textile, ceramics, oil paint, acrylic and porcelain, gouache and collage.
This year our winners are Aelenor Berry with ‘Burning Love’, an Elvis inspired white denim cape with appliqué and machine embroidery and Laaiba Rajas with ‘Dying to Live’, a textile wedding bag with machine embroidered tea bag covers, from Henley College;
Amber Harrison with ‘Sea Creature’, ceramic with low fired glazes and Shaden Bakayoko with ‘Self Portrait’, gouache and collage, from The Piggott School;
Rudi O’Keeffe with ‘The Flock’, oil paint and Freddie Carlsson with ‘Fragile Seabirds’, oil paint, acrylic and porcelain, from Shiplake College.
Top from left to right:
The Flock – Burning Love
Bottom left to right:
Fragile Seabirds - Self Portrait – Sea Creature – Dying to Live
Although some students were away at university, we were delighted to be able to meet Aelenor, Shaden and Rudi at the start of our recent lecture at the Rugby Club where they each gave us a short presentation about their work. They all received an award and certificate from the Arts Society Henley (TASH) in recognition of their outstanding artistic achievements
All six pieces have been entered into a national competition run by the wider Arts Society, a leading arts education charity which has a network of 375 local societies in the UK.
One of the aims of The Arts Society Henley is the advancement of the Arts in educational establishments and to encourage and support young people in their artistic endeavours.
We continue to be amazed at the quality and variety of the work we see at the A level shows.
Marilyn Sturgeon/Monnik Vleugels
