TCE & IB Art Exhibition 2025
Posted on November 10, 2025
On Thursday 6 November, the TCE and IB Art Exhibition opening night was held in The Farrall Centre. The exhibition celebrates the creative achievements of students from several distinct courses —Visual Art 2, Visual Art 3, Studio Practice, and the International Baccalaureate Visual Arts. Though their pathways differ, these programs share a common foundation: nurturing the ability to think creatively, solve problems, and engage critically with the world — essential skills for any future career.
The artworks on display at the TCE and IB Art Exhibition reflect a synthesis of ideas and a deep engagement with themes such as multicultural identity, personal identity, memory and environmental stewardship. These concerns echo our School’s Purpose and Values, reminding us that art not only reflects the world but challenges and inspires it.
Through courage, individuality, and imagination, our young artists communicate what it means to grow up in a world that is at once daunting, complex, and full of wonder.
This year the the TCE and IB Art Exhibition Prize was awarded to two students: Ione Rawlings-Way and Hazel Jennings.
TCE & IB Art Prize 2025
TCE & IB Art Prize 2025
Ione’s collection called Common Ground shows urban spaces are the physical result of shared human existence.
My project, Common Ground, considers our sentimental attachments to urban environments; our built microcosms of human interaction, connection and feeling. This body of work consists of small watercolour paintings depicting international streetscapes, from Tokyo to New York to Seoul, among other locations. A glowing, featureless human figure appears in each painting. This recurring presence represents a shared human ‘essence’, a communal soul or spirit; something that transcends physical appearance and geographical location.
Something Like Hope is the ceramic installation created by Hazel, which explores the historic significance of the egg and its symbolism of rebirth.
The egg is both my prison and my escape — my protector and my captor; the various versions of me inhabit its fragile walls. I invite viewers to peek inside each work through an array of cracks and openings, mirroring the interactive elements of Gregory Barsamian’s Artifact (2010). My first egg contains a small girl; in my last, the egg is gone — the once-small girl now kneels life-size, looking up towards a light, no longer confined by the artificial safety of her past.
