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Anna airy award exhibition 2021

In 1965 Ipswich Art Club (as Ipswich Art Society was then known), set up a fund in memory of Anna Airy (1882-1964) She was one of the most distinguished painters of her generation; her work is represented in many major national collections. For the last twenty years of her life after her move from London to Suffolk, she was President of the Society. But Anna Airy is also remembered as an inspirational teacher and the fund enabled the Society to make an award to a young artist whose work had been selected for their annual open exhibition. 


Ipswich Art Society has been able to build on this tradition by organising an annual exhibition just for students from local Sixth Forms and Colleges and making awards to outstanding students. These exhibitions have grown over the years and proved to be a wonderful showcase for the outstanding work that is being produced in local schools and which would never have been seen by the public. This has been achieved in association with the University of Suffolk and with the support and very generous sponsorship over the years of The Arts Society: South East Suffolk, and this year by The Arts Society:Woodbridge as well. These Societies are just 2 of 380 affiliated to The Arts Society, a leading arts education charity with more than 98,000 members. It was founded in 1968, the year in which the first Anna Airy Award was made. 


This year, with Covid uncertainties continuing, it was decided to have a virtual exhibition for a second year. Each School was invited to select their own award winners and then submit an image of one piece of their work for this exhibition. CONGRATULATIONS to them ALL! 

Copleston High School, Ipswich

Copleston High School, Ipswich

Copleston High School, Ipswich

Star student

ELLY MAY   The Horse 

Mixed media 244 x 122cms

Copleston High School, Ipswich

Copleston High School, Ipswich

Runner up

FASEEHA KHALID  Glowing City Lights 

Mixed media 233 x 126 cms


Farlingaye High School, Woodbridge

Farlingaye High School, Woodbridge

Farlingaye High School, Woodbridge

Star student

XANTHE ROBSON  Red Covid Jar 

Papier mâché, pen and paint  42 x 25cms

Farlingaye High School, Woodbridge

Farlingaye High School, Woodbridge

Runner up

MIA YATES  Architectural Forms Study 

Pen and acrylic on canvas 20 x 20cms


Framlingham College

Framlingham College

Framlingham College

Star student

GRACE NICHOLLS  Friends 

Oil on canvas  52 x 45cms


“Grace is a painter who specialises in portraiture including, images of animals and sport in her portfolio. In Friends, Grace illustrates our connection with animals that was inspired by her experience of lockdown when many of us became much closer to our pets. This is a part of a series where Grace explored family during a time of isolation. Grace Grace, a prolific painter, captured my family and other animals during this time. Grace has ambitions to explore her Art beyond A Level.”

Framlingham College

Framlingham College

Runner up

HARRY BUDD  Fire  

Wire, tissue paper, wax, photographs, digital manipulation, OSB wood panel, mod podge and varnish   200 x 180cms


https://mixam.co.uk/share/612dfb3ce252bc70fd968bd9 

“This piece is a mixed media piece that is part of a large polytych illustrating the four elements; this piece is Fire. In the attached link Harry has documented the process of making the sculptural wings for his "angel" out of wire, tissue and wax. He then set them on fire to include them as wings on a flaming, fiery angel before photographing the human part of the angel. The two images were digitally put together then placed on a background of the graffiti filled underground area on the south bank. The wooden panel is created using many A3 prints that are then put onto the wood using mod podge. All of the final panels will be exhibited together but as the Fire piece is currently too large to fit in a vehicle Harry is now re-making this piece on a slightly smaller scale before making the other elements.”



Ipswich High School

Ipswich High School

Ipswich High School

Star student

CAITLIN WIGGINS  Mum

Oil on board  90 x 64cms

Ipswich High School

Ipswich High School

Runner up

CALEB ERNST Nostalgia  

Oil on board  94 x 67cms 

Ipswich School

Ipswich School

Ipswich School

Star student

HONOR GILES Man Up 

Oil paint and textile 34 x 45cms

Ipswich School

Ipswich School

Runner up

LILY WILKINS Growing Up In an Unfair Patriarchy 

Oil on board  62 x 84cms

Kesgrave High School

Kesgrave High School

Kesgrave High School

Star student

EMILY SAUNDERS Haunted

Oil paint 60 x 60cms

Kesgrave High School

Kesgrave High School

Runner up

MILLIE WHATLEY Playtime  

Acrylic paint  80 x 60cms

Northgate High School, Ipswich

Northgate High School, Ipswich

Northgate High School, Ipswich

Star student

LUCIA BUSSELL Pedestrian 

Oil and mixed-media on board  123 x 81cms

Northgate High School, Ipswich

Northgate High School, Ipswich

Runner up

ROHAN SPURGEON Protected  

Oil on distressed metal  91 x 91cms

Suffolk One Sixth Form College, Ipswich

Suffolk One Sixth Form College, Ipswich

Suffolk One Sixth Form College, Ipswich

Star student

ASHER OXBORROW Naomi  

Oil on board  93 x 22cms

"The red background makes each individual stand out and enhances their eyes and the violets within the face and hair. It resembles their strong characters. I aimed to capture their personality and life through the depth and detail within the eyes. striking yet natural. This follows a similar composition to most of Mark Mann’s photographs and creates a similar atmosphere of feeling their calming presence."

Suffolk One Sixth Form College, Ipswich

Suffolk One Sixth Form College, Ipswich

Runner up

SARAH MOLONEY Woman in Gold 

Oil and gold leaf on board 84 x 60cms

“I tried to emulate my renaissance influence through the seated pose and light tonality that highlights the figure. I also showed similarity with the romantics through focusing on a ‘normal’ body, rather than the super thin ‘size zero’ models being depicted most often in modern media. The idea of finding beauty and power in ‘imperfections’ is the primary message I want the piece to convey. I named the painting ‘Woman in Gold’, referring to the later addition of gold leaf in the style of Kintsugi.”

Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, Ipswich

Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, Ipswich

Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, Ipswich

Star student

BEN JACKSON Self portrait  

Oil on canvas 150 x120cms

Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, Ipswich

Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, Ipswich

Royal Hospital School, Holbrook, Ipswich

Runner up

OLIVIA MAYERS 4 states of mind 

Mixed media on paper 4 x studies @ 25 x 25cms

St Alban’s Catholic High School, Ipswich

St Alban’s Catholic High School, Ipswich

St Alban’s Catholic High School, Ipswich

Star student

CAROLINE BARTEKOVA Grandad 

 Mixed media  73.5 x 51.5cms

St Alban’s Catholic High School, Ipswich

St Alban’s Catholic High School, Ipswich

Runner up

SHANILLE CHIKODZI Black Lives Matter  

Clay and acrylic Height 30.5cms

Thurston Community College, Bury St Edmunds

Thurston Community College, Bury St Edmunds

Thurston Community College, Bury St Edmunds

Star student 

JESSICA PARKER The Colours of Nature  

Screen print, woven and hand made materials  2.5 x 3m

Thurston Community College, Bury St Edmunds

Thurston Community College, Bury St Edmunds

Runner up

HARRIET WELHAM Beauty in the Everyday 

Mixed media drawing installation  2 x 2.5m

Anna airy award winners 2020

When Covid 19 struck early in the year and so many exhibitions and events were no longer possible, the hope was that the Anna Airy Award Exhibition would be able to go ahead as planned in November at the University of Suffolk. When this too was cancelled it was particularly disappointing. This annual exhibition of work by young artists has proved to be a wonderful showcase of the outstanding work being produced in local Sixth Forms.


Rather than cancel the event entirely, it was decided, in consultation with the Anna Airy Award sponsors, The Arts Society South East Suffolk, to share the prize money and ask the art teachers of the schools who regularly submit their students’ work to select their ‘star student’ for an Anna Airy Award of £100, with IAS making up any shortfall. A photo of the student’s work would be submitted for an online exhibition produced by IAS. The Schools were delighted to know that ‘The Anna Airy 2020’ would happen, even though it would be in a different format.


The first Anna Airy Award was made in 1964 following the death of Anna Airy who had been President of Ipswich Art Club (as IAS was then known) for the last 24 years of her life. Anna Airy was not only one of the most distinguished women artists of her day, but an inspirational teacher and a a lifelong champion of young artists. On her death IAS raised funds for an award in her memory to be given to a young artist of promise. As a result of the close collaboration between IAS, the University, and sponsorship from TASSES this annual exhibition for young artists has in recent years gone from strength to strength. It is now a prestigious and highly acclaimed event attracting up to 200 submissions each year.


It’s unnecessary to say that this year has been like no other. We take this opportunity to congratulate both the students and teachers who have continued working under extremely difficult circumstances.


Faye Lok for example, actually made her piece in hospital while suffering from Covid19. The result was a pair of exquisite wings. Once home Faye made a film of herself wearing them while dancing in the isolation of an apartment in Hong Kong. The dance movingly illustrates her ‘rebirth’ from weeks of ‘imprisonment’. The title A Dancer Dies Twice comes from a quotation by the dancer Martha Graham. It continues, and the first time is more painful than the second…

YouTube film:

https://youtu.be/_n-fEezXUac


Clarisse Hood’s painting Immigrants, with its atmospheric lighting and fine brushwork, appears at first to be a reworking of the traditional Nativity scene depicting the flight into Egypt. But the discreet sign reads ‘Welcome to the Jungle’. This is here and now.


Lily Carroll’s twin portraits are the outcome of a series of paintings she did of a woman from her homeland Kenya. She used them to explore how the image and the surface on which it is painted could be intrinsically linked. By incorporating maps, academic texts, and encyclopaedia into her portraits, Lily’s striking double portrait Untitled shows how the surface of the work itself can become part of the viewer’s dialogue with the image. 


Rebecca Sotiriou Boy with a Spoon, Melvin Sam Poppy, and Lauren Oxborrow Bella, have all painted arresting portraits. They each show how by experimenting with different poses, expressions, and the inclusion of accessories, a portrait can acquire an individuality, a sense of intrigue, that evokes different responses from the viewer.


Flavia Daniel‘s ambitious and eye catching sculpture Cocoon is a large, but seemingly fragile work suspended from a beam. Flavia had explored a range of cocoon shapes intrigued by the concept of something living within waiting to emerge in a new life.


Rowan Collinson has used the latest technology, digital photography and Photoshop, to create a sensational design for another digital medium, a CD cover for Call to Mind. And extremely professional it is too.


Sophie Piper has by contrast given the ancient craft of textiles a contemporary twist, literally, in her stunning costume Pleats and Gathers. 


Congratulations to all the students. They have produced showstoppers… though thanks to them, the show did go on.

Ipswich School

Ipswich School

Ipswich School

ROWAN COLLINSON
Call to Mind
Digital Photography and Photoshop
CD Cover Size: 12 x 12cm
Ipswich Scho

ROWAN COLLINSON

Call to Mind

Digital photography and Photoshop

CD Cover Size: 12 x 12cm


Ipswich School

Ipswich School

Ipswich School

Thurston Community College

Thurston Community College

Thurston Community College

Thurston Community College

SOPHIE PIPER

Pleats and Gathers

Hand painted and manipulated cotton

46 x 34cm


Ipswich High School

Thurston Community College

Ipswich High School

FLAVIA DANIEL

Cocoon

Wire, wet strength, spray paint

165 x 65cm


Framlingham College

Thurston Community College

Ipswich High School

FAYE LOK 

A Dancer Dies Twice 

Mixed Media

1.5 x 1m


Kesgrave High School

Royal Hospital School

Royal Hospital School

LAUREN OXBORROW

Bella

Oil on board  45 x 60cm


Royal Hospital School

Royal Hospital School

Royal Hospital School

LILY CARROLL

Untitled (diptych)

Oil on encyclopaedia page   85 x 108cm


Royal Hospital School

St Alban’s Catholic High School

Oil on map   83 x 110cm

LILY CARROLL

Untitled (diptych)

Oil on map   82 x 110cm


St Alban’s Catholic High School

St Alban’s Catholic High School

St Alban’s Catholic High School

MELVIN SAM

Poppy

Oil   164 x 106.5cm

One Sixth Form College

St Alban’s Catholic High School

One Sixth Form College

REBECCA SOTIRIOU

Boy with a Spoon

Oil on board   120 x 80cm


Northgate High School

St Alban’s Catholic High School

One Sixth Form College

CLARISSE HOOD

Immigrants

Oil on wood panel 170cm x 122cm



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