Art & 3D Design Exhibition

We welcomed students and parents on Wednesday night to our Art & 3D Design exhibition 2022. As you entered the hall, you could hear joyful singing and playing from Amba, Olivia and Amy in Lower Sixth, whilst smelling the delicious canapés created by our catering team and the pop from a bottle or two of prosecco.

The stage was full of the incredible work our A level 3D Design students created, while the main body of the hall was filled with outstanding Art & 3D Design GCSE work. It really was like stepping into the Royal Academy summer show! We saw ceramics, textiles, printmaking, photography, wood, metal, glass, and plastics. Students created lights, installations, sculptures, chairs, tables, sun-catchers, paintings, drawings, and mixed media pieces. All of this was supported by their beautiful sketchbooks which document their journey through the course, it is where they experiment, make mistakes, take risks, record, and develop their ideas. Critical thinking is also very important at both GCSE and A levels; artists and designers inspire their work and learn how to articulate their opinions. In Upper Sixth, students write a 3000-word illustrative essay which supports their personal project.

We are incredibly proud of all our students and look forward to the new GCSE and A level students next year to start their journey. We would like to take this opportunity to wish our Upper Sixth all the very best. Sophie is going to study politics but promises to start a ceramics club at Warwick, Beth, Avani, and Erin are going on to study Design, and we are hoping they come back next year to tell our students all about it. They will all be greatly missed; the department is already a little quieter and a little tidier!

It was a very special evening, the first live exhibition at Croydon High for two years, and we look forward to many more.

Mrs Smith

Head of Art & 3D Design / Director of Teaching & Learning