The Edinburgh Academy

‘Intimate Immensity’

Every year the Art Department has a new theme, which allows for fresh and imaginative avenues of exploration by both pupils and staff. This year’s theme of ‘Intimate Immensity’ was enjoyed by all for the range of both technical and creative possibilities that it inspired.

The Summer exhibition at the RSA showing Ron Mueck’s giant babies and tiny grannies was visited by nearly every class at the start of the year as a perfect example of how ‘intimate immensity’ could be interpreted. The A-level set produced fantastic large paintings in the quarry at Blair House. The GCSE pupils visited a different quarry while in Barcelona, Gaudi’s La Pedrera, while the AS pupils went to Newcastle to appreciate an exhibition of ‘urban art’; perhaps this was the short straw of the trips, but there’s New York and Washington to look forward to next year!

The exhibition was immense this year: over a thousand pieces of work on display, and this from a year when we only had ten A-level pupils. If you missed the opportunity to experience intimate immensity this session, don’t miss out next year: the new theme of ‘Traces’ is now well under way.
D. L. Prosser

Examples of our work

Please click on a thumbnail below to see examples of work produced by our artists for the exhibition of 2007.

Catherine Beaumont (A-Level main picture above)

Seconds

Pupils in this year start to combine close observation of first hand sources and personal ideas as reference for further development. They will be exploring image making in a variety of media including mixed media.