Dover Court International School 2023 IB Arts Exhibition

The exhibition is an important part of the IBDP, in which the students are assessed on their visual arts projects, showing evidence of their technical accomplishment during the visual arts course and an understanding of the use of materials, ideas and practices appropriate to visual communication.

Leonie Cole, Subject Leader for Visual Arts and Design Technology at DCIS shares: “The IBDP Exhibition is worth 40% of the total grade, and so they have spent most of Year 13 planning, designing, making and refining their works for the exhibition. Both students leant towards a darker theme, with Hing Man setting her curation theme as ‘Discomfort’ and Isabella’s as ‘Juxtaposition’.”

"My exhibition relates to the notion of exploring the different ways to startle, shock, trigger, and arouse disgust and discomfort in the audience. To evoke such feelings, I focus mainly on the selection use of limited symbolic colours, lines and textures. We first started our exhibition by exploring and researching different artists to find themes that we are interested in. Throughout our exhibition, we have taken inspiration from different artists and subjects in our everyday lives." says Hing Man, Year 13 IB Art student.

"My exhibition pieces follow the overarching theme of ‘juxtaposition’. I explored several areas such as ‘life vs death’, ‘innocence vs corruption’, ‘machine vs organism’ and ‘old vs new’ through my work, areas I feel are extremely significant on a global scale. Through proximities between 2D and 3D pieces, I let my viewers ponder how each medium impacts the concept. This collection aims to portray the importance of juxtaposition, not only as a formal element in art but as a crucial constituent of our whole world." says Isabella, Year 13 IB Art student.

We would like to congratulate our students and staff involved for their dedication and hard work.

“It was a long and arduous process for both students setting up and curating their exhibition, but it definitely paid off. Invited guests were able to explore the students’ concepts, whilst considering violent baby photos in macaroni frames, as well as collected fingernails and hair!” says Leonie.