Leyton students exhibit their excellent artistic skills

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Today sees the launch of At home, an online exhibition of photographs taken by sixth form college students during the Covid-19 lockdown. Over 140 students from 46 colleges submitted their photographs for the exhibition that runs from 4th to 19th June 2020. The exhibition is being co-ordinated by the Sixth Form Colleges Association and all photographs can be viewed on the SFCA gallery website here. 

 

Launching today’s exhibition, Gillian Keegan, Apprenticeships and Skills Minister, said:

"This has been a difficult time for the entire country but this exhibition is a wonderful example of how creativity can flourish in the face of adversity. It’s great to see how these sixth form students have captured the experiences of lockdown".

 

Bill Watkin, Chief Executive of the Sixth Form Colleges Association, said:

"At home highlights the extraordinary artistic talent that exists in our sector. We are holding this exhibition to recognise and celebrate excellence in sixth form colleges, but also to stimulate our thinking about the world this summer".  

 

Gill Burbridge, Principal of Leyton 6th Form College, said:

"The quality of the work in the exhibition is hugely impressive. Each of these photographs is rich in narrative and collectively they provoke and challenge. At a time of significant disruption to day to day life, these pieces offer a range of creative interpretations of the theme ‘At Home’ and invite a wide spectrum of emotional responses. I am particularly proud of the three artists representing Leyton Sixth Form College.

Cora Slack’s haunting black and white photograph poignantly evokes a very personal and interior experience of what it is to be (a)”patient”.

Kai Field’s open window “locked in and worn away” powerfully suggests both a longing for the outside world and a fear of it, capturing the inherent tension that isolation simultaneously protects and erodes.

“Spray Away” by Fatimah Zahmoul is at once playful, absurd and grotesque and toys with ideas of concealment, contamination and sanitisation which play out through, and within, the human body.

Congratulations to all the students and sixth form colleges involved and to the SFCA for curating such a memorable exhibition"!