Chloe with her teacher, Ms Ledingham
Chloe’s Young Brits at Art 2010 win/Saatchi presence continues to attract attention over the web and papers. Below are a few links to various websites featuring her accomplishments.
Posts Tagged ‘ybaa’
“The Times… They Are A Chloe”
July 14, 2010
Big Ups To Chloe
July 3, 2010
Chloe L was featured in this week’s Big Issue. The article gives an idea of the media attention and excitement that comes during and after the Young Brits at Art Awards. With Chloe being a joint winner, there should be even more attention to follow.
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out…
June 25, 2010
This Artwork of the Week has been a long time coming. I think I overlooked it due to just being too busy and the works being created for YBAA were so good and plentiful that I didn’t get a chance to revisit it. Alison C‘s (S3, Duncanrig) work was such a simple a beautiful idea. The triptych work was based around prejudice and prejudice is formed from not knowing. We lack knowledge due to things being harder to see, hidden, in the dark. So, Alison turned the light on for us. It’s a really clever idea, an idea that the Equality and Human Rights Commission loved too, making it one of their top 100 shortlisted entries for YBAA.
Sorry this took me so long Alison, but it’s such a lovely piece, it was really worth waiting for.
Notre Dame Does London
June 23, 2010
We’ve just arrived and already everyone has had enough.
Well, I travelled down to London at an ungodly hour this morning with Mrs Lyons, Amy M and Celeste M from Notre Dame, to represent our ‘With/Without’ film entry. We didn’t get a top ten place in the end, but it was still a fun day out (even if it was the longest day on earth… ha ha). Like Katie H.M who travelled a further 3 hours from Oban, we got the 5 hour train down to London to be at the YBAA Award Ceremony. It was a tremendous amount of time to be travelling and slightly disappointing not to get placed, though we should still remember that Top 100 out of nearly 2000 entries is still very impressive.
Celeste & Amy are not so keen to show off the name card I cutomised for them.
Apart from zombifying on the train, we managed to squeeze in a few bits of sight seeing and some more memorable moments. A quick look jaunt up the South Bank, a look into the Tate Modern, scorning our faces at the entry prices of the Hayward Gallery, viewing a Wildlife Exhibition, eating the largest ice cream known to man, looking quizzical at some of the science exhibits in the Southbank Centre and seeing far too much of Euston Road and Euston Station.
Amy tries to stroke a swimming metallic penguin.
It was a brilliant day, no matter what the outcome and I’m so glad that Celeste and Amy were able to come along and make it so enjoyable.
Chloe Wins Joint 1st Spot In YBAA
June 22, 2010UPDATE: Chloe actually won joint first place. There are three first prize winners and Chloe was one of them. Details here.
Her profile on the painting is here.
Joseph Stashko provided live coverage of the event here.
Chloe L from Ladywell Learning Centre achieved a top 3 place in the Young Brits at Art competition, announced today at an awards ceremony in London. Chloe’s image was ‘The Beach House’, the Shrigley-esque beach painting. I found her simplistic image extremely powerful and Ms Ledingham did a marvelous job in providing support and helping to arrange the her visit. I am totally over the moon for them both and wish Chloe all the best with her future experiences in art. This is an amazing opportunity for her.
Top 100 Young Brits At Art Announced
June 19, 2010
A slideshow of the Top 100 is now on show, you can also view the entries individually over at the commission’s Flickr account. Below are the seven top 100 entries that were connected through myself, by either a workshop or just working with a pupil or set of pupils.
Press Photos From YBAA Kelvingrove
June 16, 2010I finally acquired copies of the photos taken at the Kelvingrove Museum Workshop for the Young Brits at Art 2010 competition. The photographs, taken by photographer David Cruickshanks, sum up the concentration and energy that was presented at the workshop. There hadn’t been the turnout that was promised by the museum, though it was a fun event and great to see some ex-pupils again.
Drop Dead Gorgeous
April 22, 2010
Helen S (S5, Oban High School) created one of my favourite pieces (above, definitely in my top ten) for the Young Brits at Art competition, it’s bluntly honest, the typography is great and the image is fragile and colourfully unhappy. I happened to come across her photographs after she twittered me. I didn’t know that she was the same Helen S from Oban and was in the middle of writing her a tweet to feature her, when she emailed and asked me would I have a look at her pics?! Spooky.
Helen’s photos are extremely thoughtful. Usually super macro shots of nature or something around us that we would probably take for granted if she hadn’t focused our attentions on its beauty.
The colours are so vivid with sharp definition of details and forms. It is hard to believe that these photos are taken by someone so young. Her subject matter varies widely too which helps hold a viewer interest. It is often disappointing when photographers get caught up in catching similar scenes and become a parody of themselves.
If you like what you see and would like to see more, visit Helen’s Deviant Art Profile:
With/Without
April 20, 2010
The above video is the final edit for Notre Dame High School’s entry into the Young Brits at Art competition. The film is based on the competition’s theme ‘a world without prejudice’. The film has had to go through several edits to make it suitable for myself, the school and the competition, though I’m really happy with how it’s turned out. The most exciting thing for me is the music created by Rosie B and Rachel W who actually win my ‘Artwork of the week’ this week. Their improvised score really is a work of art. It suits the feeling and mood of the short film and fits into the intro and credits perfectly.
