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A DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT Tuesday 26 April – Friday 29 April Royal College of Art YOUNG ART 2016 Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain ONCE A STAIRCASE. an artist once he grows up. NOW A STROLL —Pablo Picasso THROUGH HISTORY. As your home becomes more important, CONTENTS so does your insurer. A Year to Remember 2 A Different Viewpoint 3 About Young Art 4 Welcome 5 Thank You 7 Behind the Microscope 8 Dr Tessa Kasia A Word from the Rector 11 Dr Paul Thompson Young Art in Schools 14 Sir Christopher Frayling 16 Meet the Judges 18 A Day in the Life of a Framer 39 Silent Auction 40 Quiz 42 Acknowledgments 62 Catalogue compiled and edited by Maria Howard Home Insurance with contributions from Kate Dilnott-Cooper and India Jaques. Design by Clover Stevens. hiscox.co.uk Artwork photography by Charlie Milligan Cover by Nick Goodwin 1 Hiscox Underwriting Ltd is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. 15740 04/16 YOUNG ART 2016 A YEAR TO REMEMBER Last year we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the first Young Art exhibition by raising £89,200 for Cancer Research UK. With a record number of 8,300 entries submitted and 760 on display at the Royal College of A DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT Art, it was an exceptional showcase of children’s art. Tuesday 26 April – Friday 29 April Royal College of Art Everyone at YA would like to say an Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU enormous thank you to all the people who made it happen – exhibitors, teachers, schools, parents, judges – Featuring works donated by leading contemporary artists and all our supporters who gave so and Royal Academicians, supporting Cancer Research UK generously to such an important cause. www.young-art.org.uk WHY DONATE? could buy special could could buy a box of £35 £1,000 £2 chemical scissors which pay for the work microscope slides – yours help decode genetic secrets of the Children’s could be the slide that hidden in cancer cells Clinical Trials Team makes a breakthrough for one day, which could buy a could fund the £100 supports giving £20 chemical measuring cost of running Cancer children access to the tool which helps analyse Chat for one hour, latest cutting edge DNA molecules cancer treatments helping many parents and families through £750 could fund one very difficult times week of a clinical trial 2 3 YOUNG ART 2016 YOUNG ART 2016 WELCOME Handing over the cheque for £89,200 so generously by donating and buying from the 25th Anniversary Exhibition postcards and canvases. to the scientists at the Institute of Child Health UCL was the culmination of a The Royal College of Art has helped fantastic year for everyone included in us from the very start, offering this Young Art. We hope 2016 will bring beautiful space for our exhibition while just as much joy and generosity as we the team at Cancer Research UK have embark on another journey to encourage also supported YA in myriad ways. children to create art and raise money Their research team continues to work for this important cause. wonders thanks to your donations and Professor Kathy Pritchard-Jones and Young Art is like a mosaic made up of lots her team at ICH are enriching children’s of individual jewel-like pieces which come lives every day. together through hard work, creativity and passion. Starting with the pupils who We are forever grateful to the YA enter such imaginative pieces – those committee who voluntarily give hours exhibited represent only a fraction of and hours of their time, as well as the over 8,300 entered this year – everyone hanging team who flock to help us every who enters a picture, whether exhibited year. We start with 929 pictures in or not has contributed to Young Art. boxes and miraculously they are all Then of course the teachers who play a on the walls by the end of the day. vital role inspiring their pupils to think Finally the most magical part of the and paint ‘A Different Viewpoint’, as well YA picture is seeing the excited faces ABOUT YOUNG ART as organising the pictures and entry fees of the pupils looking at their work on – we appreciate this so much. the walls of the Royal College of Art, We must also remember the judges with an achievement for any artist! Young Art is an annual exhibition of leading artists, including some Royal their thoughtful and insightful care children’s drawings and paintings at the Academicians, and 930 are selected to be when selecting pictures, giving their Royal College of Art. Over 7,500 young exhibited. Over the last 25 years Young time and expertise to encourage the people aged 4–18 from 80 schools, Art has raised more than £900,000 next generation to paint and draw and Hilary Stallibrass & Adrea Blakeney mainly in London, enter the competition towards vital research into childhood also the parents who support CRUK Co-Chairs, Young Art every year. The pictures are judged by cancers through Cancer Research UK. 4 5 ALPHA PLUS GROUP 1 GROUP - 15 INDIVIDUAL SCHOOLS The Minors Nursery School The Falcons School for Boys Pre-Preparatory & Preparatory Wetherby Senior School The Falcons School for Girls Wetherby Preparatory School Chepstow House School Wetherby School Rolfe’s Nursery School St. Anthony’s School for Boys Portland Place School St. Anthony’s School for Girls Hilden Grange School Abingdon House School Pembridge Hall School Davenport Lodge School THANK YOU Last year was an incredible success for Young Art and the • Provides first class learning which enables children and young people to achieve their full potential money raised is funding vital research into childhood cancers. • Teaching combines the best of traditional and modern methods We would like to thank everyone who donated and, of course, • Access to the latest classroom technology every child who contributed to making it a fantastic show. We hope you will enjoy this year’s exhibition and continue to support our commitment to finding new cures and kinder treatments for children with cancer. Sir Harpal S Kumar Chief Executive Cancer Research UK Tel: 020 7487 6000 Twitter: @Alpha_PlusGroup www.alphaplusgroup.co.uk 8817-APG Schools Advert Resize.indd 1 08/04/2016 15:49 YOUNG ART 2016 YOUNG ART 2016 BEHIND THE MICROSCOPE DR TESSA KASIA Always in search of ‘a different have a surgical procedure the following difficult to get the microphone out of a real difference to cancer research for viewpoint’ the team at Young Art day. I then notify relevant departments, my hands at the end. patients with this devastating disease, was intrigued to know what goes clinical teams and researchers that they and I grabbed it. on behind the microscopes of the need to be aware and/or prepare for I’ve kept in contact with the group ever talented researchers who work for fresh biological samples to arrive. since and have been involved in hosting Did you always want to be a scientist CRUK. We asked Lead Research students over the summer to give when you were little? What else Coordinator Dr Tessa Kasia to tell us The following morning, as the samples them some vitally needed laboratory would you have done? about her experience with the charity begin to arrive, the various labs notify and research experience and visiting Oh no... I wanted to be a ballerina, like and life outside the lab. me and I liaise with them regarding schools to talk about cancer. I love every other little girl. Then, for some the quality and quantity of samples we trying to demystify scientific research reason, I decided I wanted to be an What is your role at CRUK? need for our research. I then distribute and regularly host lab tours for the engineer – I don’t think I really knew My primary focus is to coordinate all the samples we are given amongst the public to try to explain how complex what that meant at the time. I was always fresh biological patient samples for various research projects and process cancer research is. very good at biology but when it was CRUK at University College London’s the fresh tissue, blood or bone marrow time to go to uni, I was obsessed with Why did you decide to specialise Institute of Child Health and Great for our own projects. At the end of the trying to find answers to unanswerable in this area of research? Ormond Street Hospital for Children. day, we update the data with all the work questions like: Why are we here? Is there we’ve undertaken that day and prepare I didn’t really decide, it was a natural My personal project is to try and grow a god? What does this all mean? So I for the next day. progression. I was working in more cancer cells, especially the rarer ended up not pursuing science but doing endocrinology at the time and was types, from our patients’ own cancer a degree in philosophy instead. Then, of How did you first get involved asked if I could volunteer some time to cells so that researchers have material to course, what on earth does one do with with Young Art? manage an audit involving endocrinology work with in their experiments. This has a degree in philosophy; well I became a I was privileged to be asked to speak at patients with brain tumours. It was been highly successful and we are now journalist. After several years of getting last year’s 25th anniversary exhibition.