On Tuesday 4 June, Year 9 students and their families enjoyed the opening ceremony and private view of this year’s Combined Truro Schools Art Exhibition at Truro Cathedral.
This collaborative exhibition featured artwork by five secondary schools in the Truro area, and The Roseland Year 9 students have been working towards this event within timetabled art lessons.
A number of specialist art workshops have also taken place during the spring and summer terms, leading to a stunning exhibition of printmaking, photography and sculpture which looked fantastic in the atmospheric setting of the cathedral. This successful project is now in its fifteenth year and the title for 2018/19 was ‘Our World, Our Planet' - with artwork inspired by the environmental theme.
Selected students from participating schools also collaborated on an exciting musical performance for the opening night of the exhibition, taking part in a music composition workshop and performance at the cathedral, led by musical director and composer Matt Douglas.
The fifteen musicians included singers, string and brass players, who worked with Matt to create and perform an original piece of music in just one day, inspired by the same environmental theme.
They gave an impressive performance, with voices and instruments exploiting the acoustics of the cathedral to great effect, and involving recycled plastic bottles and drums as additional percussion.
The art exhibition remained open to the public for two weeks and was very well received by the many visitors to the cathedral.
Comments in the visitor's book included:
"Incredible and thought provoking"
"Very impressive! Your creative powers and sensitivity is a credit to you all"
"Thank you for the courage to let us glimpse in your artwork the passions you have for the future of our fragile world"
"Congratulations on your wonderful artwork"
