Elsinore Library

Thursday, 16 October 2008

The Press

Here's a link to a local paper feature on the exhibition.

With apologies for the delay, here are the missing student works which I believe are from Boroughbridge High but please correct me if I have this wrong, and please tell us your name if you haven't been credited. The page above is by C. Frater.

Guy Mitchell

Adam Ekin

Anon

Tuesday, 7 October 2008

Some Photographs from the Opening of The Elsinore Library Exhibition at Shandy Hall

Patrick Wildgust, Curator of Shandy Hall, with Chris Pearson.

Tom Phillips standing on the steps to the gallery.

Apologies to Guy Mitchell, Adam Ekin and two anonymous contributors whose works haven't appeared here yet - only because my scanner is playing up - I hope to be able to add theses pages in the next few days.

Friday, 26 September 2008

Boroughbridge High School

On Monday 22nd September Patrick Wildgust, Curator of Shandy Hall and Lucy Shortis who works as an assistant to Tom Phillips, went to Boroughbridge School to meet the Year 12 and 13 students involved in this project, and to talk to them about the exhibition. Lucy bought some slides of Tom Phillips studio to show the environment and the processes by which works in the exhibition had been made. Boroughbridge High School produced some more interesting pages, including Poppy Hanson's elegant work above. These are now on display in the exhibition alongside the work from other schools. A second group of pages from Boroughbridge High will be added here at the blog next week.

Michelle Towler

Jessica Holby

Anon

Joanne Abbot

Angela Walker

Jenny Harland

Easingwold School

More pages arrived from Easingwold School on Friday evening. It seemed that a few of the students had looked very closely at A Humument and were working with motifs seen in the book. Other approaches were in evidence too. Christopher Palmer's ship is sailing right out of the page, and although its sails could suggest open books, there is no isolated text at all. Jess Luck and Chris Price each presented two, quite different pages. Francesca Inchboard's jigsaw page (above) is original and accomplished.

Sarah Fleming

Chris Price

Christopher Palmer

Jess Luck

Abbi Burnett

Jess Luck

Sarah Burgin

Chris Price

Abbi Pulleyn

Amy Charlton

Thursday, 25 September 2008

Fulford School

The next pages arrived from Fulford School. These were remarkably diverse. Several pages were close in style to Tom Phillips's early Humument treatments, there were others with a very good illustrative quality, some abstract painting and some sharp graphics. We did like the worm coming out the skull in this work by Harriet Amesbury which appeared to be influenced by Mexican Day of the Dead iconography.
Please tell us the missing names.