Alice Weatherill, Money and Water
Acrylic, 60cm X 60cm
The annual exhibition of selected work by Sixth Form students from across Norfolk and Suffolk is again being shown in the Crypt Gallery at Norwich School. ncas was again involved in the selection process and is also awarding a prize, selected this year by trustees, Selwyn Taylor and Andrew Eden. Their choice is a remarkably mature work, Money and Water, by Alice Weatherill from Dereham Sixth Form College. She describes the background to her large acrylic work as follows:
I looked at Malca Schotten's work during a workshop at Norwich Castle and I decided to look at how science and maths can be represented in art. I researched mathematicians who lived in Norfolk and found Thomas Blundeville who lived in the village of Newton Flotman. This lead me to include circles in my final piece. A trip to the science museum in London inspired me to create an abstract version of the MONIAC. I used acrylics to create both texture in the water and the colours in the MONIAC.