This exhibition will remain up until Friday 27th April.

This year we have an unusually small but cosy group. This is the student’s final exhibition and 70% of their final mark for IB. The remaining 40% is the Research Workbooks some of which are on view. The students have an examination interview with a visiting examiner. What does the examiner look for? How has the work been marked? There are 5 main criteria and then a further 10% for growth and commitment.
The examiner will want to see creativity, imagination and purposeful exploration that a student can synthesise. The student will need to show work with a strong sociological or aesthetic meaning. Work must be thoughtful and show inventive use of the elements and principles of design all with technical competence. For the highest grade there will be a “powerful collection of work” “a highly sophisticated exploration of ideas and an outstanding resolution of concept, media and technical expression”

Students often work thematically. One of the dominant themes in the work of this years students has been their family and what it means to them.

Masuma’s work is colourful, stylised and bold. She worked diffidently at first but gradually developed a bold style of painting which developed from fabric collage and moved to observation work on the beach inspired by Miguel Costales.

Hanne has made astonishing progress and her work has changed dramatically from quiet, dark sepia photographs to exuberant colourful pieces. Hanne discovered colour and the fun of working intuitively. She then studied painters such as Klimt and Pacita Abads techniques to explore ways of using colour more selectively.

Adil loves cars especially the Ferrari and no matter what we did a Ferrari would creep into the work. He has developed his painting skills and created some promising flower studies. Georgia O’Keefe inspired him but her familiar bone structures became part of a Ferrari!

Yuko’s aim has been to create a warm and happy feeling in her work. She started with illustrating and creating her own books telling the story of her life. It is an extraordinary accomplishment as each book is hand made by Yuko with both embroidery and appliqué on the cover. There are 97 watercolour illustrations. She moved on to explore many different media. Don’t miss the thoughtful Story Quilt.

Hetsvi explored many media and techniques not knowing in which she was most comfortable. Her explorations of different media now hang comfortably together to make a competent, colourful, eclectic exhibition.