First year fine art student, Jade Gordon, has been lucky enough to have her artwork selected to appear on the Royal Academy's Online Summer A Level exhibition. The exhibition runs alongside the Royal Academy's historic Summer Exhibition, but in fact is more selective, with only 46 works appearing. Two of our fine art students were also shortlisted, Emma Carl, a first year student and Sophia Rivera-Montanes a second year student.
Paul Ayres, Curriculum Manager for fine art said, "We are all excited and proud that Jade has been selected. Jade worked hard in creating such an impressive large scale painting that is highly meaningful, and clearly the Royal Academy responded to this."
Jade, who produced her large scale personal artwork in January, described her response to being selected;
"I feel ecstatic that my art is on the RA website. I am so happy to have been chosen out of so many talented people. My piece reflects and symbolises the impact of the “One Child Policy” placed in China through my own perspective. I aimed to demonstrate how adoption (due to the policy) can leave you questioning your ethnicity and make you feel marginalised between two cultures as you are brought up in white culture, not knowing your own, but people expect you to act and know Asian culture just by your physical ethnicity. I have found studying fine art at Farnborough to be fun as well as beneficial as I am experimenting with different media and improving my skills. The course has also allowed me to have freedom with the full support and helpful guidance of my teacher."
Jade's work can be viewed on the website
here.
Emma and Sophia's work can be viewed
here.
