Young Arts

ENGLEMERE DECORATIVE AND FINE ARTS SOCIETY

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Young Arts

Young Arts is a core activity of NADFAS which aims to introduce young people to the arts or to inspire them and encourage a lasting enthusiasm for the arts and an awareness of our arts heritage and its conservation. Started in 1973, the initiative provides exciting opportunities for children and young people to expand their horizons through their involvement in creative arts activities.

Englemere DFAS subscribes fully to this vision and has sponsored a number of art workshops in the local area which have provided opportunities for children to take part in arts based activities. We are constantly looking for new projects especially those which will help children and young people to learn new skills and work as part of a team. Our projects are led by talented young artists who have inspired and guided the children to create some wonderful pieces of art.

2012

ENGLEMERE DFAS YOUNG ARTS AWARD

Englemere Decorative Fine Arts Society is pleased to introduce an award to support young artists to develop their skills and/or interest in the decorative and fine arts. The winner will receive £500 towards their studies, travel or materials, the runner up will receive an award of £250.
The award will be for young people studying the decorative and fine arts including visual arts and crafts. The closing date is 28^th April 2012.

For eligibility and details of how to enter please follow this link:

Click here to download pdf file on arts award

EDFAS 10^th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION 2012
To mark the 10^th Anniversary of EDFAS in April 2011, we supported 5 young arts projects with artist Kerry Lemon. For this celebration project, we worked with 6 locally based groups each producing two stained glass effect pieces of art of celebratory cakes. The groups were:

4 after School Clubs based at South Ascot Primary School, these included children aged 5 to 9 in each of the first 3 years at primary school;

young people at the Ascot Kotch Youth Club which meets at the Racecourse on Friday evenings, they range in age from 14-17 years; and a group of Young Carers from the Princess Royal Trust Carers Service sponsored by the Royal Borough. For many of the young people, this was a unique opportunity to work as part of a team to create something which was publicly displayed. The young people seemed to be thoroughly engrossed in the creation of their cakes and derived great pleasure from the results of their efforts.The cakes were created using tissue paper on plastic sheeting and look beautiful hung in front of a window to allow the light to shine through. They are inspired by Andy Warhol's beautiful cake illustrations (see glorious example below), and the six banners were hung in rainbow order: red, yellow, pink, green, orange and blue.

EDFAS would like to thank Budgens of Ascot who displayed the works of art in their High Street Store.

(Click on the pictures below for larger size)

Yellow Cakes finished

Cake making in progress

Pink Cakes finished

Summer 2010, Entry for NADFAS/Royal Society of British Artists Exhibition
NADFAS and the Royal Society of British Artists will, for the second year, host an exhibition at the Mall Galleries in March 2011. The Competition is open to 6^th Form students and local areas are invited to select an art work from a local school for consideration by the judging panel. This year EDFAS has selected an item which has been submitted to the judging panel. The painting in oil and acrylic, 75cm x 50cm, was created by Steven Bye, a Year 12 student at Charter’s School. Judging will take place late 2010 and we hope Steven’s entry will be successful

Painting by Steven Bye, Charter's School, Sunningdale

Summer 2010, SaturDADS, South Ascot Children’s Centre.
‘SaturDADS’ is a project organised within the Borough to enable fathers and male carers to spend time with young children in various activities around play. Kerry Lemon arranged a painting day providing toy cars, other household and play objects, and paint which the children could use to create some colourful wall hangings. On a hot, sunny day, dads and their children, some not yet at the walking stage, enjoyed the opportunity to combine colours and play freely to create images. Kerry had provided plenty of water for washing and protective ‘overalls’ to ensure children returned home without too much damage.

Further information about SaturDADS is available at www.southascotchildrenscentre.co.uk

Spring 2010, Gt Hollands School, Bracknell.
Children from year 6 at Great Hollands School worked with ceramic artist Sadie James to create a work of art to celebrate UNICEF’s Children’s Rights. The roundel, which has been installed at the entrance to the school in Bracknell, Berkshire, was made in the form of a jig saw. The children cut the pieces and decorated them with the words ‘hello’ and ‘peace’ in the many languages represented by their ethnic backgrounds. The children were inspired by the creation of this wonderful piece of art and justly proud to see it permanently installed at the School

Pupils at Grt Holland's School and the roundel they produced

The Roundel in preparation

Spring 2009, East Berkshire Mind.
Englemere DFAS joined the Bracknell Pyramid Scheme, run by East Berkshire Mind, sponsoring workshops in five local schools for a total of 50 children with artist Kerry Lemon, a local illustrator with a Queen Elizabeth scholarship. The children created sun flowers as shown in the photos below. (click on picture for full size) The Pyramid Clubs offer a safe space for children to play, learn new skills, take part in activities and develop positive relationships. They are run by Club leaders and volunteers who are trained to develop children’s confidence and enthusiasm.

The Children and their sunflowers

January 2009, Holy Trinity Primary School, Sunningdale.
Artist Sadie James led a 2 day workshop at which children worked on ceramic projects using different clay building techniques of texture and glazing. The finished work included Indian henna tattoo hands, mini-beast tiles, Aztec bowls and natural forms pots.