Ex-student Aleksia Drain (Y13 in 2019) has been recognised in The Creator's Room 2020 Top 15 Artists awards.

We congratulate ex- student Aleksia Drain for being recognised as one of The Creator's Room 2020 Top 15 Artists.  The Creators' Room, which launched in 2018, offers a free programme available to Senior Visual Artists (Year 11-13) to showcase their work and connect with a community of collectors. The Creators’ Room provides upfront financial support, through the purchase and professional framing of the original artworks and funding the reproduction of limited edition prints. The artworks are then made available to the collectors through an online marketplace and annual exhibition, with a commission of all sales going directly to the artists.

The Creators’ Room is on a mission to give their Creators the first taste of a career as an artist and encourage continued participation in and appreciation of the arts once they leave the support of the school environment. Secondary School art students face a number of roadblocks when taking the first daunting leap to publicly showcase their artwork. They lack resources and funding to create and present their work on a professional level and have limited ways of marketing themselves and connecting with the wider arts community. 

ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION SAVING SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ART FROM THE SKIP

Incredible artwork is created at a secondary school level and, more often than not, these student art folios, filled with fabulous works, end up either in a deep, dark corner of their parents' garage or in the school skip.

The Creators’ Room have confirmed a new date to hold their annual ‘Art Stars’ exhibition in Christchurch’s CBD. The exhibition, which is usually held in May each year, will now go ahead from 28 August – 10 September 2020 at The Welder (20-26 Welles Street, Christchurch).

OPENING NIGHT: 28 August, 5.30pm – 8.30pm

EXHIBITION: 29 August – 10 September, Open daily 9am - 4pm

Original work will be up for sale during the 14-day exhibition with prices ranging from $200 - $800. Twenty guest artists from around Canterbury will also be exhibiting.

For more information please contact Co-founders:

Sophie Paterson  021 901 622  sophie@thecreatorsroom.co.nz

Charlotte Sherratt  021 0250 3232  charlotte@thecreatorsroom.co.nz