Farley Arts Trust Awards & Exhibition
Farley Arts Trust Awards & Exhibition
For over twenty years the Trust has organised the biennial Farley Arts Trust Art Awards & Exhibition to celebrate the outstanding creativity of East Sussex students studying visual arts at GCSE, A level and Level 3 Creative & Applied Pathways.
Images of art works from recent Farley Arts Trust Awards & Exhibitions
The aim of the Awards is to celebrate and raise awareness of the creative achievements of young people in East Sussex schools, colleges and academies. The resulting exhibition of art works and the Awards ceremony promote wider recognition of the importance and value of the creative work done by young people within their schools and give students the opportunity to take their work beyond the classroom and out into the wider community.
Schools with pupils taking art at GCSE, A level or Level 3 Creative & Applied Pathways are invited to submit work by their students in seven categories:
Painting
3D Sculpture
2D Mixed Media
Works on Paper
Photography
Textiles
Sketch Books
Selection and Judging
A panel of Farley Arts Trust Board members, Antony Penrose, Griselda Bear and Rosemary Colebourn, will make the selection of the art works to be exhibited in the Lee Miller Gallery at Farleys House. Schools will be informed of selected works in September.
The students whose work has been selected will all be considered Farley Arts Trust Award Winners. They will all receive certificates and their works will be illustrated in the catalogue. One copy of that will be available for each student and after the exhibition it will be available on the Farley Arts Trust website.
Recent guests of honour include Joe Hill when he was Director of Towner Eastbourne and Sir Peter Blake RA.
Awards line up in Farley Barn Gallery 2015
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David Dimbleby with exhibitors in Farley Arts Awards Exhibition 2017
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Peter Blake with Farley Arts Awards Winners 2019
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Awards Line up in Farley Barn Gallery
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In November 2026 the exhibition will be installed in the Lee Miller Gallery at Farleys House & Gallery. At the Awards event for participating students, their families and teachers, Antony Penrose on behalf of the Awards panel, will review the works on display and a guest of honour will present the certificates and prizes. In-kind and financial prizes for each category are donated by a wide range of sponsors including many local and national companies and organisations.