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25TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION | YOUNG ART ALPHA PLUS GROUP ONE GROUP - 14 INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS The Minors Nursery School The Falcons School for Boys Pre-Preparatory & Preparatory Every child is an artist. Wetherby Senior School The Falcons School for Girls The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. Wetherby Preparatory School Chepstow House School —Pablo Picasso Wetherby School Rolfe’s Nursery School St Anthony’s School Portland Place School CONTENTS Abingdon House School Hilden Grange School Welcome to Young Art 5 A History of Young Art 7 Pembridge Hall School Davenport Lodge School Cancer Research and Young Art: A Researcher’s View 10 A Word from the Rector: • Provides first class learning which enables children and young people to achieve their full potential Dr Paul Thompson 12 • Teaching combines the best of traditional and modern methods Meet the Judges 14 • Access to the latest classroom technology The Special 25th Anniversary Auction 34 Why I Volunteer 38 Fundraising in Schools: Streatham and Clapham High School 43 Quiz 44 Young Art: Making a Difference 48 Prize Winners 51 Exhibitors 52 Acknowledgments 70 Catalogue compiled and edited by Maria Howard with contributions from Kate Dilnott-Cooper Web: www.alphaplusgroup.co.uk Tel: 020 7487 6000 Twitter: @Alpha_PlusGroup and India Jaques. Design by Clover Stevens. Cover by Eleanor Philpott, Royal Ballet School. Alpha Plus Group Ltd • 50 Queen Anne Street • London W1G 8HJ 1 YOUNG ART | 25TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION 25TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION | YOUNG ART SPECIAL 25TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION ‘CITY LIVING’ Tuesday 28 April – Friday 1 May 2015 The Royal College of Art Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU Featuring an auction of works donated by our judges, WHY DONATE? leading artists and Royal Academicians, supporting Cancer Research UK £2 could buy a box of £100 could buy a £1,000 could pay microscope slides – yours chemical measuring for the work of the could be the slide that tool which helps analyse Children’s Clinical makes a breakthrough DNA molecules Trials Team for one day, which supports £35 could buy special £750 could fund one giving children access chemical scissors which week of a clinical trial to the latest cutting help decode genetic secrets edge cancer treatments hidden in cancer cells www.young-art.org.uk 2 3 YOUNG ART | 25TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION 25TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION | YOUNG ART WELCOME TO YOUNG ART Welcome to our 25th anniversary We would like to thank them all for their exhibition. In the words of Prof hard work and generosity in donating Chris Orr RA, ‘Young Art is going works for a special anniversary auction higher and higher.’ which will be held on Thursday evening. We have received a record 8,300 entries Thank you to our loyal supporters, this year and are exhibiting 760 pictures advertisers and helpful and creative – what an achievement! With so many team at Christie’s who have given their wonderful works of such high calibre spare time to help us this year. Finally, our judges worked long and hard to thank you to our Committee who work reach their decisions. We would like to tirelessly giving hours of their time thank you all for submitting your work voluntarily to make Young Art happen. and also special thanks to the schools ABOUT YOUNG ART We hope you enjoy the exhibition and and the teachers who have worked so CHILDREN HELPING CHILDREN auction and we thank you all for giving hard in inspiring their pupils, helping to generously and supporting research make Young Art the success it is today. into childhood cancers through Cancer Young Art is an annual exhibition of This year we are celebrating 25 years of We would like to thank our Patron, Research UK. This truly is children children’s drawings and paintings at the children helping children. On Thursday Prof Ken Howard OBE RA for his helping children and every donation Royal College of Art. Over 8,300 young 30 April we will be holding a charity loyal support, now and over the will make such a difference. people aged 4–18 from 80 schools, auction, organised by Christie’s, of years, as well as the Rector of the RCA, Thank you, mainly in London, enter the competition eight works of art kindly donated by Dr Paul Thompson, who selects the every year. The pictures are judged by our judges. All proceeds will go directly Rector’s Prize from the A level Entries. leading artists, including some Royal to Cancer Research UK. Turn to page x Our judges this year are Nicola Bayley, Academicians, and 760 are selected to be to find out more. Patrick Cullen, Humphrey Ocean, exhibited. Over the last 25 years Young James Hart Dyke, James Lloyd and Art has raised more than £850,000 Prof Chris Orr OBE RA, who also towards vital research into childhood Hilary Stallibrass & Adrea Blakeney judged a separate Drawing Competition. cancers through Cancer Research UK. Co-Chairs, Young Art 4 5 25TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION | YOUNG ART A HISTORY OF YOUNG ART Young Art has grown, like the mighty oak, Rector of the RCA. As we were beginning from an extremely small acorn planted 25 to hang our paintings his secretary years ago. The first exhibition came from appeared to find out what we were up to. an idea for a Halloween party, including Apparently one of our six year old artists, a painting competition. The party never Chloe Delevigne, had tried to convince happened, but the exhibition did. Luck her grandfather that she had a picture and inexperience saw us through; we on display at his college, and was only had only one fixed idea, and that was believed on producing her certificate. to present the children’s paintings in Luckily, Sir Jocelyn was amused to a professional, stylish way. With this discover that such an unlikely exhibition in mind, undaunted by its reputation, was about to happen in his basement, we contacted the RCA. To the eternal and saved the day by not only giving credit of the lady in charge of bookings us another large gallery, but providing (‘children, yes, very refreshing, good for chocolate biscuits for all. our students’), we were given the bar area on the ground floor at a greatly reduced From such Heath Robinson beginnings fee. We took it, coerced 12 primary the Young Art exhibition has evolved schools to submit paintings, enveigled and settled into an accepted part of the Caroline McAdam Clark to be our judge calendar for the Royal College of Art, and set the date. About a fortnight before CRUK and the Young Art Committee. It the exhibition it dawned on us that, from has raised thousands of pounds for cancer an artistic and attendance point of view, research, encouraged children to paint, we were in for a success. However if all given immense pleasure to all our visitors 120 children whose work was on show and, most importantly, shown our artists turned up, with proud parents, and, that by their efforts they have enhanced goodness, grandparents, there would their own lives and saved others. not be enough room for everyone. At By Fernanda Herford that time Sir Jocelyn Stephens was the Co-Founder of Young Art 7 25TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION | YOUNG ART ONCE A STAIRCASE. THANK YOU NOW A STROLL On behalf of Cancer Research UK, I would like to extend THROUGH HISTORY. my thanks for your support of Young Art and this special As your home becomes more important, 25th anniversary exhibition. so does your insurer. The Young Art Committee is passionate and driven and we are incredibly proud to work with them. Thanks to their hard work and your generous support, Cancer Research UK is able to make vital steps in its research into childhood cancers, to accelerate progress and find new cures and kinder treatments for children with cancer. Thank you again for your support and I hope you enjoy the exhibition. Harpal S Kumar Chief Executive Cancer Research UK Home Insurance hiscox.co.uk 9 Hiscox Underwriting Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. 14146 01/15 YOUNG ART | 25TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION 25TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION | YOUNG ART 1 out of 10 children unfortunately still die of Wilms’ tumour and we CANCER RESEARCH AND YOUNG ART need new treatments. A RESEARCHER’S VIEW —Prof Kathy Pritchard-Jones We talked to Prof Kathy Pritchard- How does the money raised help future. So that quickly adds up to a lot a whole family at the same time – it’s Jones who specialises in developing your research? of money for laboratory consumables not just the child who’s your patient, the treatments for Wilms’ tumour – the I’m the national chief investigator as well as staff salaries. impact on everybody has got to be taken commonest type of kidney cancer in for the UK for clinical trials in kidney into account. Then there’s the intellectual How widespread is Wilms’ tumour in children – about how the funds raised cancers in childhood. The money raised challenge of it, understanding the genetic particular among children? by Young Art help her research and helps fund these international trials changes or the molecular biology of why you should donate to Cancer which design and agree what’s the best Thankfully Wilms’ tumour is rare; there normal development and how, when that Research UK today. current treatment we can offer children are only about 80 cases in the UK every goes wrong, it can lead to disease. with Wilms’ tumour using samples of year and overall about 9 out of 10 When did you first become involved What would you tell someone who the tumour and the patient’s blood.