NORDEN FARM, MAIDENHEAD: TUESDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER – SUNDAY 4TH OCTOBER THE GALLERY AT ICE, WINDSOR: THURSDAY 8TH OCTOBER – THURSDAY 22ND OCTOBER SCHOOLS’ PROGRAMME 2015 2015 Exhibited works have been chosen from submissions by senior schools within the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead TITLE PARTNER WF Schools Ed 20pp 2015 ARTWORK v2.indd 1 18/09/2015 09:35 SCHOOLS’ WELCOME PROGRAMME 2015 has been a record year for Windsor Festival Schools’ Programme. The Voice of The City We received over 430 entries to our Established in Windsor, 1989 creative competition from talented students attending all of the Royal Borough schools. Thank you to everyone who took part. ComXo is the leading “ComXo has built a local business where creative, energetic people with a passion for being the best can challenge the UK provider of global More than 10 years since it was established, the aim of the Schools’ Programme status quo and build a better future for themselves. switchboard support remains the same: to foster and encourage emerging talent in the Royal Borough, services encouraging students in Years 10, 11 and 12 to engage directly with the arts and At ComXo our creative thinking facilitates our clients adoption explore the value of their own creativity, beyond the school syllabus or National of new ways of working. This opportunity to foster emerging Curriculum. creative talent within the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead underlines the importance that creativity With the generosity and support of our Title Partner ComXo we are proud of the holds within our corporate culture. direction the Schools’ Programme continues to move in and the opportunities it We are proud to have taken the Schools’ Programme to a new offers young people to exhibit and share their work. level by enabling the winning artworks to be exhibited on the comxo.com The quality and variety of entries has been exceptional this year. Thank you to our commercial stage, at the offices of our client, Herbert Smith panel of judges, all experts in their creative field, for their time and enthusiasm. Freehills LLP in central London. 0800 0711 711 18 Horton Road | Datchet, But most of all, congratulations to the individuals, departments and schools whose Andrew Try, Founder MD of ComXo Windsor | SL3 9ER creative endeavours in Art, Music Composition and Creative Writing can be seen on public display at Norden Farm and The Gallery at Ice this autumn. To find out more about Windsor Festival and the Schools’ Programme, visit www.windsorfestival.com Helen Lake Festival Manager WINDSOR FESTIVAL SCHOOLS’ PROGRAMME Cover Image: Falling Leaves Harsheena Harji, Brigidine School SCHOOLS’ PROGRAMME EXHIBITION 2015 3 SUPPORTED BY COMXO WF Schools Ed 20pp 2015 ARTWORK v2.indd 2-3 18/09/2015 09:35 LIST OF EXHIBITORS 1st Art: 1st Art: Winners Winners 1st Place 1st Place Portrait of Father Georgie Drysdale, Heathfield School Bliss Megan Jacob, Windsor Girls’ School 2nd Place 2nd Place Composition with Garlic Albina M, St George’s Ascot Whole Again Katie Hopkins, 3rd Place Windsor Girls’ School Ralph Regine Raul, Licensed Victuallers’ School 3rd Place Still Life Lily Yang, Heathfield School Highly Commended Highly Commended 2nd Untitled Giles Atkinson, Eton College Eggshells Emma Harwood, Licensed Victuallers’ School Untitled George Gardiner, Eton College Untitled Portrait (Newspaper) Megan Jenkinson, Licensed Victuallers’ School Commended Headpiece Anastasia Bykova, Commended St George’s Ascot She’s Leaving Home Edward Axtell, Claires Court Senior Boys X 2 Prints with Drawing Ella Cassidy, St George’s Ascot Beautiful Neglect Millie Heighes, Hurst Lodge Still Life with Pigeon Millie Heighes, Fantastic and Strange Freya Henderson, Brigidine School Hurst Lodge Lion’s Head Olivia Hollings, Altwood C of E School Nude Kim Ravenscroft, Heathfield School Untitled Albert Hughes, Eton College Scaffolding Laurence Jones, Desborough College 3rd Pomegranate Heather Kyle, Furze Platt Senior School 2nd 3rd 4 SCHOOLS’ PROGRAMME EXHIBITION 2015 SCHOOLS’ PROGRAMME EXHIBITION 2015 5 WF Schools Ed 20pp 2015 ARTWORK v2.indd 4-5 18/09/2015 09:35 LIST OF EXHIBITORS 1st Art: Art: 1st Winners Winners 1st Place 1st Place Societal Boundaries Millie Heighes, Hurst Lodge Blue Architectural Form Sangita Ganesh, 2nd Place Churchmead School Prohibition Purses Georgie Meehan, Hurst Lodge 2nd Place 3rd Place Bodyscapes Anna Fenwick, Heathfield School Nigeria: Apart and Together Chi-Chi Nelson-Moore, 3rd Place Heathfield School Baby Annabel Bella Smith, Hurst Lodge 2nd Highly Commended Highly Commended The Sea Phoebe Clarke, Heathfield School Untitled (Ink Portrait) Diana Suris, Untitled Oscar Lindsay, Eton College Licensed Victuallers’ School Punk Ballerina Georgia Toay, Claires Court Senior Girls Seeing the Unseen Katie Underhill, Churchmead School 2nd Commended Feathered Garment Gabi de Ferrer, Heathfield School Commended Gold Jess Berry, Hurst Lodge I’m only Human Freya Henderson, Brigidine School Retro Jess Berry, Hurst Lodge Old and New Architecture Kamila Wenta, East Berkshire College Early Morning Mist Emma Coe, Churchmead School Bubble Dress Alice Wiggin, St George’s Ascot Consciousness Elinor Fresson, 3rd Heathfield School 3rd Architectural Form Sangita Ganesh, Churchmead School Phobia Asia Lamann, Churchmead School Fragments Lara Parker-Bentley, Churchmead School Lizard George Yerou, Claires Court School 6 SCHOOLS’ PROGRAMME EXHIBITION 2015 SCHOOLS’ PROGRAMME EXHIBITION 2015 7 WF Schools Ed 20pp 2015 ARTWORK v2.indd 6-7 18/09/2015 09:35 LIST OF EXHIBITORS 1st Art: Creative Writing: Winners Winners 1st Place 1st Place Texture Vessel Georgina Allen, St George’s Ascot You look best in your funeral dress Hugh Shepherd-Cross, Eton College 2nd Place 2nd Place Melting Hope Laura Marshall, Windsor Girls’ School Writ in water Jacob Andreae, Eton College 3rd Place 3rd Place X3 Ceramic Disc Sculptures Harriet Pryer, Insomnia Aaliya Janjua, East Berkshire College St George’s Ascot Highly Commended Droid Jonathan Badderley, Furze Platt Senior School Leaf Vessels Damien Welham, Eton College FIRST PLACE: You look best in your funeral dress 2nd Commended Hugh Shepherd-Cross, Eton College Blue Men Ben Chuah, Eton College Maritime Vessels William Hammond, Eton College You look best in your funeral dress Box Jumble Edward Micklethwait, Eton College with reddened eyes and a dead father. It’s the complexity, Cabbage Inspired Ceramics Matilda Shelton-Agar, not the vulnerability Heathfield School as you sit on the pew and smother a shriek. Clay Head Matilda Shelton-Agar, Heathfield School I want you to laugh- just not for a while; Journeys Abi Wilcock, Furze Platt Senior School maybe next Sunday before you remember and weep. 3rd You look best in your coffin with eye lids that shut out the soil. lt’s the tragedy, not the mortality as you lie in the ground and suppress a smile. I want you to live-just not for a while; maybe next Friday before you remember and die. 8 SCHOOLS’ PROGRAMME EXHIBITION 2015 SCHOOLS’ PROGRAMME EXHIBITION 2015 9 WF Schools Ed 20pp 2015 ARTWORK v2.indd 8-9 18/09/2015 09:35 LIST OF EXHIBITORS SECOND PLACE: THIRD PLACE: Writ in water Insomnia Jacob Andreae, Eton College Aaliya Janjua, East Berkshire College Here I lie in chills and fever, The lights are off, but I’m still paying the bill. haunting me in petrified silence. constrained to bed - it has come at last. The blinds are closed, yet someone remains home. When I breathe all I taste is the trauma of oxygen. When I smell, I smell vacuous nothingness. ‘Lift me up, for I am dying.‘ Drowning in the darkness, the waves submerging my mind And it is the nothingness that depletes me. Up,up. Swamping my lungs, with suffocating silt. Me, myself, I but nothingness reminds me I am The flowers press down on me Alone with my thoughts, yet I cannot afford to think. alone, me, by myself. and fade further each day. I was once living. But now I merely float awake. Completely alone, I won’t stop rowing. Stale like the orphaned slice of bread, never picked Plagued by fate and fortune and left to rot. the curse of my writings; I am ready to face the night, a wakeful warrior: Raw, unfresh, isolated. forgotten. Raise my armour up — I lift my blanket Shield at the ready — I wrestle my pillow I’m choking and I can’t gasp for air. Too young, too soon they say now. I am a soldier of the night, fighting with fatigues. They said nothing then. The oxygen seems extinct, frozen over. I didn’t matter. I am ready to fight, I remain outnumbered. There is a still light that I begin to follow, It’s me versus the night, Trotting up to doomland instead of dreamland. And now I rest in shallow grave, I must become one with my enemies, drifting, better It leads way off into the distance where I see snores, letters of my life, come with me. yet prancing, But I am truly desperate and afraid. All I wish for now is idle relief. Prancing on our battle sheep as we try to unite. The more I move towards it the further the sound At first we struggle to get over the fences, the fences travels. ‘I cannot see what flowers are at my feet.’ that segregate us Violets, I think. But when we get together, we will ride. I cannot go back or forth I remain in my position for what feels like eternity Broken lyre, cornered - all quiet in the quarter, I frantically turn and turn. My mind is still and I can’t stand this darkness ‘Here lies one whose name was writ in water.’ My eyes open and close like a loose letter box on a I am truly lost. (A poem about John Keats) windy day. How to survive? How indeed? I find an alternative route, hidden on purpose, In all my years awake I have never attempted to find I follow it to the very edge, out, I see the moon shining down on me, comforting me.