A y ear in the A rt department
New sculptures on campus IB Art final exhibition
With each passing year, our artists seem to become ever more
ambitious, creative and dynamic in the work they produce. This
year was no different and there was a flourishing of sculpture. This sense of boldness was echoed in the exhibition of IB artists
at the Oxo Bargehouse, our fourth and largest show to be staged
there. The breadth of the students’ ingenuity was highlighted
by work such as a series of playfully suspended sheets, whose
crispness of form played against the rugged space. Video
projections played with complex ideas and created sensitive,
often moving imagery. Large plaster sculptures were handled with
expressive freedom and wax was used as a sculptural material with
particular sensitivity and subtlety. There were even sculptures
made from neon lighting and electrical conduit tubes.
In September a new series of three-dimensional works was installed
on the campus. Florian Barratt digitally designed an abstracted
portrait with complex software before welding the first of a
series of steel sculptures which was installed on Jockey’s Platch.
Sean Lee presented a series of diminishing steel cubes entitled
3.5011080978 m 3 ; the name refers to the negative volume of the
piece: the air minus the volume of the steel used. Lastly, a work
by the Brazilian sculptor Túlio Pinto was loaned to the school.
Delicately poised, half precarious, half geometric stability, this is
now outside the Head’s house.
Charley Openshaw
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(Right and following pages)
Right hand page, clockwise from top left:
IB artworks by Imme van der Plas, Annelise Lemonius, Barkat Mehra,
Renée Ojikutu, Isabel De Sousa, Hannah Kang Wolter
ART REVIEW