Students showcase artistic talent at awards night

Students showcase artistic talent at awards night

27th October 2014

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CREATIVE students were at the centre of an academy's celebration of the arts and showcase of talent.

Five hundred tickets for the event at Trinity Academy, in Thorne, were given out to families and friends to see performances and view work by GCSE and A level students.

Work in fine art, photography, textiles, dance, drama, film and music were all showcased on stages and a catwalk in the academy's main hall and on displays throughout the building.    

The evening also saw awards handed out to arts students for achievement and effort.

Head of art Laura Howlett: "Our arts evening has previously been an exhibition combined with a formal awards presentation, but this year we decided to do something completely different and have a much more relaxed format that gave guests more time to view students' work.

"A programme of drama, dance, fashion and music performances on our stages and catwalk kept them entertained, while art and photography students were on hand to explain their work as visitors viewed the displays. Together, it showed the range of our students' artistic talent and was a great celebration of their hard work."    

Among those with work on display was Jemima Penney, 17, of Thorne, who achieved an A in photography and a B in art in her AS results this summer.

Explaining her photographs capturing friend Katy Leech being hit with water and eggs, Jemima said: "The theme was 'freezing motion' and I wanted to capture the moment of someone being scared. Katy didn't know what was going to happen, she was very brave."

Engineering apprentice Owen Whittaker, 16, of Moorends, left school in the summer but came back to see his final piece from his GCSE art on display. The work honoured those lost in the Hillsborough football disaster and depicted each of the 96 victims' names.     

Katy Leech, 17, of Thorne, who wants to use her fine art talent to be an illustrator, said: "I drew on a lot of personal things I like such as song lyrics and lines from comics in my work. I also used lots of different media work including ink, wax and paint."

Other students worked as models during the evening showing the work of textile students on the catwalk. 

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