St Edmund's
Art, Ceramics & Photography
EXPLORE
Every student is challenged to develop specific creative behaviours and habits that encourage confident, independent learning. Imaginative and inquisitive ideas are actively supported with emphasis on the importance that trial and error has on positive creative development.
QUESTION
In everyday life we are surrounded by a sea of visual information. We champion an intellectual pursuit of how images can be read. Visual literacy skills develop as images are analysed critically and conceptually. Students become familiar with a diverse range of artists, craftspeople and designers from contemporary, modern and historical contexts: highlighting the breadth of potential approaches.
MAKE
Our staff are practising specialists in Art across a range of 2D and 3D disciplines that include Fine Art, Photography, Ceramics and Digital media. We lead by example in sharing our own insights and passions, careful to offer guidance and suggestions rather than answers, prompting pupils to find their own way.
Alumni profile
Alumni profile
Mengyi (Linda) Li
A long-term boarder at St Edmund’s, Mengyi studied GCSEs and A-levels in Fine Art and 3D Design, achieving A* grades in both and being awarded an Art scholarship for her Sixth Form studies. Her thought-provoking work was a regular feature of the Art Department’s exhibitions. Mengyi is currently studying Interior and Spatial Design at UAL (University of the Arts London), a world top six university for Art and Design.
Alumni profile
Alumni profile
Youmei Huang
Youmei, from northern China, studied at St Edmund’s from 2016-2018, completing A-levels in Fine Art, Photography and Mathematics. Along the way, she developed a particular interest in visual effects and animation. Her results in Art and Photography were excellent, and she has gone on to study the new Games and Virtual Reality course at Glasgow School of Art.
