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ST EDWARD’S CHRONICLE
ARTiculation 2018
Sixth Former Evie Faber was recently
announced as the overall winner of the
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
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
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’.
Evie Faber addresses the audience at the ARTiculation Final
Lord Smith of Finsbury with Evie and her fellow finalists at Clare College, Cambridge