“They’ve done it again!” Four Hewett Academy Student's Artwork Selected for Royal Academy of Arts Exhibition

Hewett Academy is delighted to announce that four of their students have had their artworks selected for the Young Artists’ Summer Show 2023.

The annual exhibition takes place at the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts in London and is open to submission from young artists aged 4 - 19 studying in the UK. Artworks are judged by artists and arts professionals with selected artworks displayed online and on-site at the Royal Academy of Arts from Tuesday 18th July to Sunday 13th August.

The students involved are Olivia Kenyon Year 11, Lacy Mills Year 11, Ben Varghese Year 11, and Nicola Radosz Year 7.

Kenyon's acrylic painting features a double portrait of two close figures staring intently into each other's eyes warmly. The detail and execution of the work is exemplary and is part of an ongoing series of independent art and illustrations based on the lives of a fictional community. 

Mill’s submitted an alternative, high fidelity, portrait of her Grandad in which he is featured as a highly detailed pair of hands holding his beloved pigeon against a dark background. Lacy is very close to her Grandad and wanted to capture his caring and loving nature.  

Varghese’s ‘Red House’ is a wooden sculpture of a building inspired by scaffolding, nests and Japanese architecture. He enjoyed taking his work from 2D drawings into 3D forms and produced this wall art using dowel rods. 

Radosz created this modern oil pastel pattern inspired by Monet’s Waterlilies and the dreamtime mapping of the Indigenous Australian following her art lessons which challenged Year 7’s approaches to recording landscapes. Radosz is keen to develop this work into a textiles print.

Principal of Hewett Academy, Antony Little said: 

"To have had so many pieces selected for such a prestigious exhibition like the Royal Academy is a tribute to the talent, hard work and dedication of our Hewett Academy students, supported by our brilliant Art Department. It is incredible to think that our students will have their work exhibited in such a famous gallery and that thousands of visitors will see their art. At Hewett, we are creative to our core. Students have access to the best teachers and amazing art facilities with our students now leading the way on a national stage. I can scarcely express how proud we are of them and it goes to show that Hewett students can go anywhere that their talents take them.

 

I want to pay particular tribute to Lacy Mills, who joins a highly selected group who have had works exhibited at the Royal Academy twice. It is rare enough to get selected once, but to manage it twice goes to show the depth of her talent. She is a remarkable young lady with a great future ahead of her."