Five Pupils Recognised At Regionals ISA Art Competition

In fact, this year, the school was delighted and proud that every entry into the art competition was placed.

Congratulations go to Upper Sixth leaver, Cara Ridd, who was awarded first place in the Painting Over 16 class for her striking portrait 'Censorship' and to Upper Sixth leaver, Jamie Dickens, who took first place in the Over 16 Sketchbook class with her compendium of drawings and paintings titled 'Domestic'. Well done also to Lower Sixth Form student, Henry Ruddy, who took first place in the Sketchbook KS3/4 class with his compendium of work titled ‘People and Places’.

Then, Lower Sixth Former, Eva Cronin da Bufala earned herself second place in the KS4 Drawing class with her work ‘Woman’ while Lower Sixth Former, Alexa Thoday, received third in the KS4 Painting class for her work ‘People and Places’.

Paul Hubball, Head of Art and Photography, commented, “Many congratulations to Cara, Jamie, Henry, Eva and Alexa. Their pieces are exceptional, the product of many hours of work and the obvious choice for the competition. It is marvellous to see their talent being recognised and rewarded in this way. Schools are allowed to submit only one entry in each competition class, so to have had every entry recognised is an incredible result.”

Cara, Jamie and Henry’s work now goes forward to the National Competition at the ISA Autumn Conference which takes place later this month.