Nairn Academy and Gordonstoun Academy pupils see artwork on show at Nairn Community and Arts Centre in retrospective exhibition about devastation regrowth after Hiroshima bombing.
Talented Nairn pupils saw their artworks on display as part of a retrospective exhibition reflecting on the devastation and regrowth following the bombing of Hiroshima.
The display combines the work of 90-year-old Nairn textile artist Susie Rose Alexander, and creations by students at Nairn Academy and Gordonstoun school.
Starting from Susie's powerful textile work, New Life Rises from the Ashes of Hiroshima, pupils have been working over the past months in a series of workshops and were inspired to create their own interpretation as a tribute to the strength of the human spirit and the healing power of art.
Nairn Academy pupil Suzi Mapes (15) said: “The subject of Hiroshima and the whole idea of renewal and life arising again, I think is a very important and interesting theme, artistically as well.
“I certainly enjoyed trying to explore that and it really gave me an opportunity to create art freely, which you don’t normally get to do. At my age you are usually given an subject and you have to create your artwork within that bracket, whereas this was pretty much free rein.
“They gave a very loose theme to us and then told us to make whatever we wanted, which was really nice and there’s really a depth of artwork here which I think it’s really great.
“I love it and I think Susie’s artwork is just incredible, and the fact that she is doing this at her age is brilliant.”
The exhibition, which is a collaboration between Nairn Book & Arts Festival, Andrea Turner, teachers and students from Nairn Academy and Gordonstoun School and the Nairn Community and Arts Centre, will be on show at the centre until June 30, and is open daily.
