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Why take an A level in Art & Design at RIC?
100% A*- C at A level – Fine Art | Graphics | Photography | Textiles | 3D (53 candidates) August 2019 > > > Continue reading Why take an A level in Art & Design at RIC?
ISA Finalist
We are thrilled to announce that Rochester Independent College is a finalist in the Independent Schools Association (ISA) We are proud finalists for the Award For Excellence and Innovation In Fine Arts. A school that has the visual and creative arts at the heart of its identity.A school where students and staff are innovative, prize winning artists.A school whose stated aims commit it to supporting … Continue reading ISA Finalist
London Design Festival 2021
London Design Festival was launched by Sir John Sorrell CBE and Ben Evans CBE in 2003. Building on London’s existing design activity, their concept was to create an annual event that would promote the city’s creativity, drawing in the country’s greatest thinkers, practitioners, retailers and educators to a deliver an unmissable celebration of design. The launch of the first Festival took place at Bloomberg on 25 … Continue reading London Design Festival 2021
Observational Drawing in The College Gardens
We made the most of the sunshine with the year 8s this week; getting outside with our drawing boards and graphite. The college gardens are looking luscious and green at the moment, and given the lovely weather it just seemed the right thing to do! The students were spoilt for choice with the trees, the flowers, the stream and all of the other wonderful sights … Continue reading Observational Drawing in The College Gardens
Food-tastic
The lower-school have been busy on photoshop editing their May van Millingen- inspired illustrations. They started with sketching their designs and then carefully added colour with layers of water-colour paint, leaving these to dry and finally adding fine-liner detailing to create the sketchy illustrative style that May van Millingen uses in her work. Once the illustrations were finalised we scanned them into the computers and … Continue reading Food-tastic
We’re Going On A Bird Hunt
The lower school have been busy on Wednesday afternoons creating ceramic sculptures of British indigenous birds. Each student selected a bird to focus on, drawing preliminary sketches sketches and then producing this vibrant and fun clay tiles for the college garden. These lovely sculptures have been scattered all around the college gardens so keep an eye out for the colourful birds, hiding in the bushes! Continue reading We’re Going On A Bird Hunt
Speakers for Schools
Speakers for Schools Inspiration Programme provides a network of today’s most inspiring figures across business, arts, politics and more donating their time to help inspire students to fuel their ambition. We are passionate about providing a high quality and personal service, making it seamless for speakers, educators and organisations to get involved. Speakers in our network range from CEOs of major companies to notable national journalists, arts … Continue reading Speakers for Schools
RIC Photo of the Month: Feb
Our RIC Photo of the month was back for round two and in February we kept the choice of two themes, this time – ‘Family’ and ‘Texture’. Well done to everyone who entered, all entries have been judged by our very own Michael Daks, under three categories – Lower School, Sixth Form and Staff it was a bit of fun for everyone, as well as … Continue reading RIC Photo of the Month: Feb
Lower School Land Art and Photography
The lower school students have been busy at home creating some spectacular sculptures and snapping some wonderful photographs in their back garden. Taking full advantage of the nice weather we decided to head outside and make the most of the sunshine! We have been appreciating and exploring the resources & spaces that are at our fingertips- something that we all seemed to be guilty of … Continue reading Lower School Land Art and Photography
Art is where the Home is
Stay inspired with activities from artists including Grayson Perry, Antony Gormley, Sarah Lucas, Gillian Wearing, Idris Khan, Cornelia Parker, Jeremy Deller, Vanley Burke, and many more. Anyone can have a go – there are no specialist materials required, plus our packs are completely FREE to download! Over 48,000 people have downloaded our packs so far – from all across the world including Spain, New Zealand … Continue reading Art is where the Home is
Mission to Mars
Today some of our students attended the pre-launch of Mission to Mars. Set in the near future, Mission to Mars will be an innovative and imaginative online arts project. Through our virtual journey to a new world, we will am to better understand our own and our place in it. Especially, we aim explore the impact that lockdown has had on our lives over the past year, as well … Continue reading Mission to Mars
