Art
About the Art Department
The department is run by the Director of Art, Mr. Andrew Kenrick, and his staff Mrs Danusia Sawoscianik-Murray and Mrs Helen Platt-Hawkins.
All three teachers teach across the whole age and ability range and are Art specialists. The department is housed in a detached, purpose built Art School with six studios and a library. Art & Design have a prestigious reputation at the College, a fact celebrated by the enormous number of paintings that adorn the corridors. The College was the first school to pioneer Digital Photography at GCSE and later at A Level and work in all disciplines is often used as exemplars by the Examination Boards. It would be true to say that the Department is one of the real strengths of the College.
The Art Department's aim is:
- To encourage a visual appreciation of the world about us;
- To encourage an imaginative and creative response to a variety of themes and issues;
- To establish interest and awareness of both past and present creative practice in all its forms;
- To encourage the pursuit of excellence.
On leaving Worksop a significant number of pupils go directly on to study degrees in Graphic Design, Photography, Theatrical Costume Design, Fashion Design, Fine Art, Sculpture, History of Art, Architecture, Film and other creative areas of study. Some prefer to take one of the above-mentioned routes after a foundation course. We can thus boast former pupils who have their own clothes label, design for the world’s top clothes and car designers, work in television, in auctioneering, as a graphic designer for a broadsheet newspaper or in many other fields of illustration, graphics, advertising and fine art.