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Over 100 artworks donated to the IGS art auction!

Friday, 20 June 2025 09:23

'The River and Beyond' will be available in the first IGS art auction on 1-3 July

Ilkley Grammar School has received over 100 artworks from students, parents, carers and teachers for the school’s first art auction.

Bidding will take place on 1st, 2nd and 3rd July via the charity website: www.galabid.com/igs_art, also on those days the artworks will be exhibited during Creative Arts week at IGS (enter via school reception) from 5pm.

Anyone (aged 18+) in the local community, as well as the school community, can bid for artworks, and the works can be picked up from the school reception once the auction is over from 7 – 18 July during school hours.

All proceeds will go (via the IGS PTA) towards supporting student enrichment and personal development activities at school.

['Fountain's Abbey' is one of 100 pieces of artwork available in the first IGS art auction]

The IGS auction is also delighted to be supported by Weaverbird framers of Wells Road (https://www.weaverbirdworkshop.co.uk/ ). All work listed in the auction will be eligible for a 10% reduction on framing/reframing/mounting and all student work that has been donated is eligible for a 30% reduction.

[Owl is available in the art auction]

Jamie Gutch, Deputy Headteacher, reflects on the upcoming art auction and its connection to the process of education:

“These many donations, from students, parents/carers, staff and members of the wider community are not only generous gifts but they also represent a willingness to take a risk and to leap into the unknown.

"We have called the first IGS art auction Transformation because, like education, the creation of a work of art is also a process of transformation – of adding value to something – and while humans transform things in all walks of life, art is perhaps one of the most fascinating ways in which humans ‘add value’. If you reduce the 100 artworks that have been donated to their raw materials you would be looking at a few piles of pigment, graphite, iron, a ball of clay, some cotton, some wood pulp and perhaps a few chemicals…. art, like people, is so much more than just an assembly of different materials.

"The age of AI, with all the opportunities it will bring, is also helping us to define more clearly what it is that makes us human and the things that really matter: Our capacity for kindness and generosity, for unique gestures of creativity and the relationships we build with those in our communities. All of these qualities and values seem to come together in this art auction.”

[Penguins is available in the art auction]

With many thanks to all our donating artists and to those who wish to remain anonymous:

A. Barker; Kris Brewster; Penny Burgoyne; Paul Clarke; Isla Cousins; Laura Cox; Annabelle Crawford; Emma Draper; Valerie Eyles-Owen; Jen Fielding; John Giles; Gillian Gilroy; Xanthe Gutch; Juliet and Jamie Gutch; Rachel Harding; Claire Harris; Joanne Henderson; Louise Hepworth–Wood; Mark Hinchcliffe; Ben Horner; Ilkley Flower Club; Andrew Lambert; Menaal Mahmood; Henry Makin; Damian Marsh; Joe McDermott; Ross McGibbon; Amelia McLoughlin; Louise Mortimer; Mary North; Rebecca O'Hooley; Susan Oliver; Charley Raybould; Betsy Reid; Mike Revell; Nicola Robson; Scarlett Smith; Caroline Smith; Rachael Sugden; Siobhan Tear; Felicity Tomblin; Wendy Uchimura; Karl  Vickers; Hannah Whitley; Ben Whittington; Rebecca Whittington; Ben Williams and Jen Yeardley

[The 'Yorkshire Sea']

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