SCHOOL’S OUT WHAT’S NEXT?
Samuel Johnston, 19
Worth School, West Sussex
After his A-levels, Sam (pictured on left) spent a gap year touring the continent with his band, Flashguns, which formed at Worth School. Now at UCL, the alma mater of Coldplay, the band juggle a budding music career alongside undergraduate degrees. Despite the double lives they lead, the three-piece have manage to record their debut album, The Beginning, with the help of Depeche Mode and Foals producer, Luke Smith. The album will be released later in 2010, and Sam and the band will be touring the UK and Germany over the summer. Hear the band by visiting
www.flashguns.com or
www.myspace.com/flashguns
Jamie Byrom, 22
Radley College, Oxfordshire
On leaving school, Jamie organised a show called Young At ’Art with nine other leavers. Through the show, Jamie successfully sold most of his A-level artwork, which funded a large chunk of his gap year travels. He went on to Oxford Brookes University, where he read History of Art and worked at the Frieze Art Fair for two years, assisting with the VIP programme. In his second year at university, Jamie gained
an internship at the prestigious auction house Christie’s in New York, which was both an amazing opportunity and a real eye-opener, “The best three months I have ever had,” claims Jamie. On graduating, he set up a ‘pop-up’ gallery in Fulham, curating a show called Granulated Sweetener with established contemporary artists, as well as organizing another A-level art show called Pop goes the Easel. Jamie is currently working with the Hannah Barry Gallery, based in Peckham, south London. The gallery is in the process of opening exhibitions in Mayfair and New York.
Alice
Llewellyn, 29
Tudor Hall School, Oxfordshire
Alice trained with the Florentine artist Charles Cecil, learning the tecnique ‘sight size’. She has since painted an impressive list of subjects including Peter Wilson, director of the Theatre Royal, and the Bishop of Gloucester. But with Alice it was a case of have easel, will travel. Her Utah landscapes found their way to an exhibition at the Fleming Gallery. In Rwanda, she taught artists at the Ivuka Art Studios. “They are completely self- taught, so I took my old school, classical training, where I was obsessed with grinding my own paints and the direction of light and went somewhere where there were no rules. It was both intimidating and liberating,” she says. Having completed her master’s, Alice is exploring ways of interpreting her traditional background in a contemporary way, using her art as a visual aid to create “montages of memory”.
www.alicellewellyn.com
Bright Sparks
What our young school leavers and graduates did next By Belinda Noel
80 FIRST ELEVEN SUMMER 2010 WWW.FIRSTELEVENMAGAZINE.CO.UK
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