St Edward's Chronicle April 2018

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ARTiculation 2018 Sixth Former Evie Faber was recently announced as the overall winner of the

inspiring and I’d like to think that I became more confident in myself over the duration of the competition. I’m still very shocked and grateful that I was able to take part in such a memorable experience’.

was beautifully set out.’ Evie says of her experience, ‘Being part of the competition was uplifting from start to finish. To see so many young people display such passion and interest in all forms of creativity was

national ARTiculation competition. Designed to give young people a forum in which to express their ideas about art, ARTiculation was set up 11 years ago as a tribute to art historian Kenneth Clark. Around 4,000 young people take part in around 20 regions across the UK – so Evie’s achievement is quite outstanding. Of her performance at the Final at Clare College, Cambridge, Lord Smith of Finsbury, Chair of the Art Fund and Chair of the ARTiculation judging panel (and the UK’s first Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport) said ‘Evie was brilliant. She is a very engaging speaker. We liked her personal story of how she explored the work and what it meant to her. Evie took us through her own experience and explanation, making the photograph ( Young Man in Curlers, at Home on West 20th Street, NYC, 196 6 by Diane Arbus) come alive. She challenged us to look behind the image and she set the work in context very well. We enjoyed Evie’s way of digging beneath the surface and we felt that her argument

Evie Faber addresses the audience at the ARTiculation Final

Lord Smith of Finsbury with Evie and her fellow finalists at Clare College, Cambridge