Festival of Creative Arts
School pupils from Years 3 to 13 created over 300 artistic pieces of work for the event
Over 250 people celebrated creativity at Queen ’ s College at the first Festival of Creative Arts Gala Showcase Evening this
and each pupil exhibited their own unique interpreta- tion of the brief.
The school were joined by the Mayor of Taunton, the Taunton Chamber of Commerce, a number of national and international artists and designers (from Taunton to Ukraine), a national premier performance racing en- gineer and designer from Ariel (who brought an Ariel Ace motorbike into school), award - winning chefs from across the South West (including Marriott Executive Chef Richard Hunt from the largest hotel in the South West, Chef Andrew Swann Trencherman ’ s Award Best Chef nominee from the Castle in Taunton and local foodie Steve Ashworth Amateur Chef of the Year) plus the Daily Telegraph ’ s Food Critic, Food Author and tele- vision ’ s BBC MasterChef Judge William Sitwell, plus pu- pil prizes from South West Michelin Star Chef Michael Caines MBE from Lympstone Manor.
week. The reception saw hundreds of visitors, friends, and families being joined by a dozen high - profile VIPs.
School pupils from Years 3 to 13 created over 300 artistic pieces of work in a huge variety of media from food, plastics, wood and card to more traditional ceramics, photography, textiles, paint, pastel and pencil. The aim of the evening was to showcase the tremendous achievements of all pupils from across the
Faculty of Art, Design and Food coming together as one and to celebrate all the creative arts in one night. The theme for the showcase was ‘ Patterns and Patterning ‘
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