Sutton High School hosted the inaugural GDST Biennale at the prestigeous Dulwich Picture Gallery on the 30th June.

It was a fabulous day that included a Watercolour Workshop and a tour of the Permanent Collection for art staff and the award-winning students. 14 GDST schools entered the Awards, travelling from as far as Cardiff to attend the ceremony and receive their awards from Beth Dawson. The celebrations were held in the Linbury Room where the winners were toasted with mouthwatering mocktails and delicious cakes, amongst an expertly curated exhibition of the 38 prize-winning pieces. What a superb way for our schools to come together and share the amazing creative work of all our young artists!

Sutton won three Silver Awards! Congratulations to Georgia for her superb abstract photography, Florence for her fantastic sculpture and Emily for her wonderfully elaborate mask. Entries were judged by the BP Portrait Prize winning artist James Hague and the celebrated watercolour painter and print-maker Violeta Bravo.

A special mention and congratulations to Mrs Cartwright for beating off stiff competition to win the coveted Teachers Award!

Polimoda

A new generation of creators

Polimoda is recognized worldwide for its high-quality fashion education. Listed among the best fashion schools in the world,
Polimoda prides itself on its professional training by means of highly specialized working and research methodologies. With
2000 students of 70 different nationalities, Polimoda is not only an educational institute, but a creative campus: a hotbed
for visionaries and opinion leaders from the worlds of fashion, culture and education. From 2022, the institute collaborates
with the United Nations Office for Partnerships to help design the future of the fashion industry centred on sustainability,
inclusivity and climate action, the first academic institution to join the UN Conscious Fashion and Lifestyle Network.

The Sutton Library Gallery was packed on Thursday 20th April for an evening of celebration. Young artists, their families, and teachers gathered from across the borough to enjoy this year’s Youth Art Show, organised by Arts Network Sutton in partnership with The London Borough of Sutton.

Congratulations to Amber and Beatrix on their prize winning works!

Bringing together a kitsch DIY aesthetic full of colour and humour with dark gothic undertones, my work playfully presents narratives which speaks towards the Black British experience in a white dominated environment.

Night Lives, by Ella Sheffield

This is our final year group project at university. Night Lives is a poetic documentary painting a portrait of our generation, through a take on the nightclub culture in England. We are closely looking at notions of collective identities, performance and truth. Following the structure of a night-out and the overarching themes and emotions that come out through it, our creative investigation hopes to explore how the microcosm of a nightclub works as an excessive reflection of society and the ways we choose to live.

WOW it’s a beauty!
Our fab new printing press has arrived and is looking very impressive. Luckily we have a specialist printer on hand and Ian knows exactly how to use it. The rest of us are eager to learn and looking forward to a bit of dry point etching practise…

A short lecture about the use of rubbish and other salvaged objects in fine art.

A few thoughts on contemporary Pop Art…