IB Visual Arts and Higher Education
The traditional image of the artist shivering in a garret is enough to strike terror into
the heart of any parent, so it is exciting to see a body of visual evidence that documents
and informs the wide variety of routes that are facilitated by pursuing IB Visual Arts and
exploiting strengths in that area at a higher level.
The work presented here shows how courses such as architecture draw on a range of skills
and interests, growing from creativity, independence and innovation fostered at Sevenoaks.
Observing the world around us, identifying and solving problems, exploring and testing
solutions are not just the work of artists and designers but of course the skills delivered
across a range of subjects at Sevenoaks. These skills are transferrable and sought after even
as the nature and content of the higher education courses offered – from architecture to
fi ne art to graphic design to history of art – are themselves rapidly evolving and innovating.
Who would have guessed just a few years ago that Old Sennockians would today be going
on to study game design?
It is heartening to realise that the work in this exhibition draws on those timeless skills that
fi nd their own shape and place in the contemporary world.
Wendy Heydorn
Director of the Institute of Higher Education and Professional Insight, Sevenoaks School
Mariia Shapovalova, BSc Architecture, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (Year 2)
Immersive experience: apparatus surrounding a person
with placeholders for the optical filters