ArtEquals

Hand-in artwork: Friday 26 May

Exhibition: Friday 30 June

• Create your own masterpiece to be exhibited alongside local professional artists​ 

• Themes are ‘my happy place’, ‘on my mind’ and ‘creative courage’ ​​ 

• Any medium, any size- painting, drawing, collage, photography, ceramics, textiles… 

• Sell your work to the highest bidder (& keep up to 50% of the sale price)​

• You can frame your work if you’d like for presentation purposes but it isn’t necessary. If you do frame it though, the frame will form part of the sale at the event.  

• By participating, student confirms that they are happy for their work to be exhibited and sold, with the proceeds going towards the future Victoria College Wellbeing garden. 

• The themes are there for you to interpret how you wish – think about where you’re at your happiest, what is important to you or occasions where you showed courage to do something different perhaps 

• Feel free to speak to your art teacher or to pop along to the Art Department on Tuesday lunchtimes to work on your piece  

• There are plenty of local galleries where you can go to see professional artists work such as privateandpublic, ccagalleriesinternational, arthousejersey, thelinkgallery jerseyartscentre or the wonderful theharbourgalleryjersey, which will be opening back in February.  You could even visit the Art Eisteddfod in March. Jersey is a beautiful island, so there is inspiration a plenty just by being outside and visiting your happy place! 

• Why not visit some art material shops to think about which medium you’d like to use – there’s WH Smith, Paperclix, The Harbour Gallery (when it’s open again), the Victoria Art Gallery, Collins, Rachel's Textiles Studio or even Needle Treasures in the market. 

• This event on Friday 30 June will provide the unique opportunity to exhibit your work in the Great Hall alongside professionals and sell it at a prestigious event

• The whole school community will be able to come together to celebrate the strong, creative and colourful culture of the College  

• Exhibitors will receive an achievement point & feature in the next edition of ‘The Victorian’​ 

• Judges’ commendations will be displayed

• Students receiving the highest bid or highest number of public votes will win a ‘studio visit’ with a local artist. ​

• It’s open to everyone in school, even school staff and your parents and guardians if they wish!
   
• Entrants need to supply their own materials
   
• You need to hand in your finished artwork to the Business Centre (next to The Temple) marked for the attention of Ms Sweeny by 4pm on Friday 26 May 2023. Please attach this submission form to your piece of art: click here.
   
• A minimum of 50% of the sale proceeds of student artwork will be donated to the Victoria College Wellbeing Garden Project, the rest will go to the student. You might want to discuss your commission rate with your parents or guardians before deciding!

• We need to plan the exhibition, so please let us know now if you are interested in taking part by completing the form below
   
• We will email you the entrance form to attach to the back of your artwork before the closing date
   
• If you have any questions please contact Emily Sweeny, at e.sweeny@vcj.sch.je.

Talk to your parents or guardians to see if they would like to get involved!

The event team are looking for volunteers and anyone who might be able to help. Your parents or guardians can enter or donate artwork too, they can help on the exhibition night, or they might even wish to sponsor part of event.

If any of these things sound interesting please contact Emily Sweeny, at e.sweeny@vcj.sch.je.