Art

Perch Suwannakit

A level and GCSE show

This year’s A-Level show commanded Studio in a display of quality, sensitivity and visual richness. The trends towards figuration, personal links with friends and family, and the depiction of deeper psychological undercurrents dominated this year. Mother and child imagery became a motif for Jemima Hudson-Davis (Su) investigating her own childhood and Zlata Krokhmalna (C) who painted her mother with her new-born sister during a time of conflict in Ukraine.

Harriet McCreanor (Su) moved between painting and ceramic to explore modes of representation in telling personal stories and Tatiana Winterflood (Su) looked into themes of memory and dissociation.

This was offset by Manuth Kodithuwakku’s (V) bold abstraction and Rob Knight’s (R) reflexive use of materials. Rob won the painting prize for his experimental approach to non-linear processes.

This year’s OCAS prizes went to Tatiana Winterflood who is going to study Computer Games Design at SCAD in the USA. Another OCAS prize went to Amber Howard (Su) whose original and evocative concrete sculptures and animation based on human interaction in brutalist architecture captivated the judge, Jeremy Levison OC (G69).

The Levison/Pye Prize went to Emily Xu (Su) for her animation and 3D relief cityscape, which appeared in the Carthusian Day show.

The Jackson Prize went to Andrew Knight (R) for his experimental approach to painting and screen-printing.

Rob Knight

Annabel Fox

Manuth Kodithuwakka

Zlata Krokhamalna

Lucy Jennings

Jay Tao

Seventy Glorious Years

Godalming Museum hosted an exhibition of artworks by students from Broadwater School and Charterhouse commemorating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Kan Pitichaichan (H) and Stan Valev (H) represented Charterhouse at the Private View. Kan said, ‘It’s an honour to be part of this exhibition, a first of its kind in Godalming.’ It is hoped that the collaboration between Charterhouse and Broadwater will be an annual event.

The Mayor of Waverley (Councillor John Ward) and Councillor Shirley Faraday, the Mayor of Godalming, complimented Broadwater and Charterhouse for a lively and exciting collaboration which exhibited a broad spectrum of artworks in a range of media. A fabric patchwork of lino prints by Fourths was installed by Studio in the Gertrude Jekyll Garden outside the museum.

The Overlooked

For Artifex, Concert Hall was transformed with layered walls of light-translucent fabric forming a labyrinthine gallery space displaying photography and projected poetry. Curated and conceived by Eddie Chai (R) and Jordan Zhuo (R), ‘the Overlooked’ collated poetry and photography that drew attention to situations, scenes, people, objects and moments often overlooked publicly and individually, by choice and subconsciously.

The Cardboard Gallery

For Artifex, Binmo Chen (Su), an A-Level Art student interested in architecture, wanted to develop a small space that could serve a new function and reflect the historical architecture of the School.

Her resulting cardboard gallery elegantly marked its own space, mimicking the gothic arches of the South African Cloister. She invited a range of pupils and beaks to exhibit small works in it, thus igniting the space with new purpose.