Comments about the our exhibitions and other activities
Earth Day: July 17 2010
Dear All,
Just a quick line to thank you (and Ian Iredale specifically) for your excellent service on Saturday in Leys Square!
We were delighted to contract LAC to provide a complete package for the event, providing your fabulous new pro stage, together with PA and engineer. What’s more, at short notice, you were also able to put together the ‘creative’ programme.
The artists selected proved to be top notch. Indeed, we were particularly impressed with your headline choice, the superb Randolph Matthews.
Once again, thank you indeed for a job well done!
Alan Howard
Director of Marketing & PR
Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation
Parents'/carers' reviews of the Arts Award exhibition, Foyer Gallery, February 2010
The exhibition put on for the Arts Award showed a variety of styles and media, reflecting the diversity of the students. We were treated to collages, paintings, manga-style cartoons, and realism. It was obvious that the students had put thought and effort into their pieces, down to the placement and manner in which the work was displayed.
It was all professionally laid out with an explanatory display about the Arts Award to inform visitors what the students were doing, and how they set about working in the class. There was even a visitor’s book for comments (and we were pleased to note the lovely things people said about our daughter’s drawings!).
For our daughter, art is not a hobby or a simple pleasure to pass her time; it is all. She lives and breathes her art from the moment she wakes up until the time she goes to bed. Being home educated allows her the freedom to indulge this passion, and we do our best to supply her with all she needs to explore and learn new disciplines. Her involvement in the Arts Award programme is one such example, but the work she does for this is only a small fraction of what she actually turns out.
We attended the exhibition with enormous pride, impressed that years of dedication had brought us to a point where we were viewing her work on a gallery wall. We’d like to think this is only the first small step and that the future will continue to bring us many such moments of standing by in awe and admiration.
CL Needham
Hi Vanessa, just thought I would let you know how much Georgina has enjoyed the course and how lovely it was for us to be able to see not only her work but the other children's work too, it seemed very special for all of us seeing the display hanging in a gallery that also displayed experienced and qualified artists work. Many thanks and good luck with all the children's markings.
Sally Coakley
‘Thank you for putting on such an interesting and varied display of artwork in the Foyer Gallery. The range of work and materials and ideas were fascinating – all the different themes coupled with the variety of methods used to express them were great and rather inspiring – making me look more closely and think more deeply. I was particularly impressed with some of the drawing and printing type work. An impressive exhibition. Thank you!’
Barbara Lohoar
It was lovely to see the broad spectrum of talent the students had and the way in those very few weeks it was exploited and created. My daughter certainly enjoyed the experience and was totally motivated to attend each lesson.
Sangeeta Dhall
The Arts Award exhibition is both exciting and diverse. The students' work was well displayed and interesting in nature. We had many questions about it during the course of the exhibition from the general public.
Maria Iredale - Chief Executive Letchworth Art Centre
Exhibition comments: October 2008 – March 2009
C. Dunham
“Thought provoking for all ages.”
M. King
“An excellent, varied, thought provoking exhibition.”
R. Jones
“I want to caress the Naked Men Paintings. Will have fun with that memory.”
B. Witehead
“I like the Sedona under the sun and the scrum!”
L. Sherho
“I liked the White Rhino. It was AWESOME!!”
A Downer
“Excellent exhibition – really enjoyed”
F Bar
“Love the Mermaid in Love – Very touching.”
D. Hubb
“The Scrum and Sedona did it for me!”
R. and A. Parker
“An enjoyable varied exhibition. We liked the Scrum!”
Chell and Roger
“Fallen and Wounded by Heather Burwell are awesome. As well as the White Rhino by Louise Shatter.”
S. Bonell
“Great exhibition loved the pencil work.”
K. Cole
“Such a varied collection – Loved Cathy Smale’s Festival Summer”
D. Hopkins
“Bloody good show, not seen work this good in along while.”
A. Anderson
“What a lot of talent we have locally. Wonderful!”
Unknown
“Much to enjoy! Thank you.”
Unknown
“Attractive and varied work in a good space.”
W. Lemour
Paul Haerdon’s print after Rubens – Magnificent! Wish I could afford!”
V. Fone
“It’s very beautiful. Outstanding.”
M. Wilkings
“Love White Dahlia!! Clever shading detail.”
A. Boddy
“A really nice exhibition. Loved the ‘half there’ images and the whole painting ‘It was the kiss she remembered.’”
K. Page
“A great experience- such a varied selection.”
Unknown
“Well Done! We both loved Jingle Jangle bracelet and the bee ring was very unusual.”
D. Elliott
“Heather’s paintings are the best I’ve seen exhibited at the venue. Wounded is stunning.”
J. Cooper
“Loved, Loved the Mermaid in Love.”
D. Brightwall
“The happiness in the pictures really reaches through. Excellent.”
A. Ashley
“My daughter has special needs and this exhibition is fantastic.”
S. Blackmore
“Beautiful; evocative photographs, absolutely stunning.”
D. and J. Little
“A thought provoking exhibition – well presented.”
C. Little
“Very good.”
M. Woodman
“Very thought provoking and a wonderful idea – beautiful photos.”
C. Smith
“A fabulous collection of photographs. I would not like to have to judge them.
S. Sparrow
“My favourite is seeing eye to eye.”
S. Mayis
“Interesting and delightful. Thoroughly enjoyed it.”
J. Neadla
“Really enjoyed all pictures. Well done.”
W. and M. Nuttall
“Very well done. A wide selection of pictures and all of the pictures tell a story.
R. and A. Johnston
“Fascinating and thought provoking.”
J. Thate
“Very interesting and moving.”
V. Dixon
“A very thought provoking exhibition.”
D. Salter
“Very moving.”
A. Downer
“Beautiful exhibition. A great celebration of life! Thank you.”
H Godfree
“Poignant and thought provoking. Lovely moments captured!”
O. Slater
“Really telling pictures of our lives.”
L. Sherno
“I like the guitar on table 1 and the pots on table 6.”
B. Whitehead
“I like the guitar and the baby pots on table 6 especially.”
Unknown
“I like the boxes and Nigel’s work.”
F. Sherno
“Froggy bowl is my favourite.”
F. Sherno
“A 3D star is my favourite.”
A. Northover
“Brilliant.”
D. Lewis
“Well done to them. All great.”
Parker Family
“Very interesting and mixed display of work and styles of a very high standard. Well done.”
R. Chepmen
“Very good and interesting. Some really interesting pieces.”
E. Needham
“Very impressed with the range of styles and the quality shown – more please.”
D. Worthy
“Well worth seeing. An encouraging development.”
A. Frost
“Brilliant exhibition! Such talent! More please!”
B. Shires
“My first visit. Very impressed with variety of art work.
L. Huston
“I was impressed by Dionne Wilsheps prints – great exhibition.”
H. Edwards
“Brilliant really good to see such variation and quality.”
R.Whittall
“Very good work I liked it a lot.”
R. Comley
“Real Letchworth culture from the future. Great stuff.”
J. Clarke
“Amazing! Their teachers should be extremely proud!”
J. Wills
“An excellent exhibition. The standard is amazing! Congratulations to everyone involved.
A. Casting
“Fascinating to see how faces and bodies have been treated. Also some very adventurous use of paint.”
Unknown
“Wonderful – you should all be very proud.”
A. Wallace
“Great to share your work in this wonderful space.
M. Comparctto
“Especially like Rochelle Ellis’s work.”
Unknown
“Fantastic work with a great variety of colours and pictures.”
F. Sherno
“I like 52 because it has lots of bright colours and it’s very well done.”
Unknown
“Very imaginative – what fertile minds and clever hands.”
Janet
What a fascinating and inspiring exhibition. I shall go home and make a recycled garment. Brilliant!”
G. Mackilligan
“A fantastic display of creativity and talent. Well done to all involved on a wonderful collection of recycled fashion.”
S. Pick
“Superb and imaginative!”
Sally
“Amazing!”
Ann
“Fantastic, colour – use Marvellous.”
B. Matheson
“What a stunning and inspirational collection of work. Like costumes from an opera or theatre performance. Magical.”
Unknown
“Was amazed at the ingenuity and intuitiveness of such young people.”
M. Baillie
“Thought provoking and beautiful.”
J. Webb
“Outstanding.”
