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Performing and Visual Arts: A Year in View The School’s new centre of excellence for performing and visual arts, the Meadowside Arts Centre (MAC) will provide key teaching spaces for our four creative disciplines: Art & Design, Culinary Arts, Drama and Music. Over the next few pages, you can discover the latest news and successes of these Departments over the course of the previous year.
The Year in View, Art & Design Earlier in the year in March, talented now former F6 artist Lily Bircham won the Chairman’s Challenge in the Friends of the Royal Scottish Academy School’s Art Award, a competition open to all F5 and F6 pupils in Scotland. Entrants were asked to produce an artwork of a fascinating interior and so Lily created several sketches, which she then developed into her winning lino print. At the fabulous prize giving at the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh, Lily’s piece was on show in the gallery, alongside the New Contemporaries show. Two High School artists, Kaixi Lui and Jenny Bonnyman, both had their work included in the Fringe Poster Exhibition at Dynamic Earth, in Edinburgh, from 22 May until 27 August 2018. The competition received over 4,600 entries and only a small selection were included in the show, so the girls did exceptionally well. Their pieces were colourful, sophisticated and exciting combining lots of different media. Young pupil, Lucy Clarke, had her lino print of a swimmer awarded 2nd place in the F1-3 category of the Tesco Bank Schools Art Competition. This is an extremely prestigious competition and this year it attracted over 8,000 entries from all across Scotland, so to be recognised in such a broad category is outstanding. Lucy’s creation was so strong that it was chosen for the cover of the Tesco Bank calendar and was reproduced as a postcard, which was on sale at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. Inspired by the stories and subjects from the period of the First World War, Advanced Higher Art students were asked to produce a series of original paintings and vignettes, which were on display in the Main Building of the School throughout November as part of the HSD Remembers initiative. The pupils’ creations were both thought-provoking and visually stunning.
