A Shrewsbury School Hold a Special Art Exhibition in Jackfield, Telford

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00:00My name is James Millichamp, I'm Head of Creative Technologies at Shrewsbury High School

00:06and we're delighted to present our annual exhibition here at Footprint Gallery at Fusion in Jackfield.

00:13The school celebrates 140 years this year, so we wanted to do something really special

00:20so we've come out to the Footprint Gallery which is an amazing space,

00:26a really fantastic way to celebrate the work of the children and the girls and the young women

00:33because our work goes from year one on display right through our junior school work,

00:39GCSE work, A-level work, we've got work from our alumni as well,

00:45so people who have studied at the school and are now professional creatives

00:52and we've got some staff pieces as well, so some of the teachers have put work in

00:57just to complete that story really I suppose.

01:00And the idea is for the young people to come and see the exhibition

01:05and they can see that art is an activity they enjoy and engage with at junior school level

01:11but then they can achieve academically at GCSE and A-level

01:16and they can go on to study at university and they can find a career in the creative industries,

01:23so that's what we're trying to promote really as well as celebrating the hard work

01:28and fantastic skills of our young people.

01:31So we had a preview event on Friday night which was amazing,

01:36we had two alumni come and speak at that,

01:40one is a senior curator at the National Portrait Gallery,

01:46one is head of museums for Arts Council England

01:50and they came and they spoke and they were inspirational

01:54and it was really fantastic and actually one of our A-level students

01:59had a good chat with Eloise from the National Portrait Gallery

02:02because that's the field she wants to go and study in,

02:05so to have that industry specialist there to talk to was fantastic.