Young Circa

Francesca@Circa wrote:

www.recirca.com/young is a new development on Circa Art Magazines website. Its intention is to show portfolios of excellent Junior and Leaving cert art, if anyone is interested.

when i saw this thread title i thought it might mean circa were going to be doing more to support young emerging professional artists, but this is good too.

if i was in school it would be a real help to me to see this site to get an idea of the exam standards. but since i'm not i find the way its strictly looking at exam work pretty boring, i know when i was in school the work people were doing in the classroom wasn't half as exciting as the work we'd do for ourselves in our own time. it would be nice if something like circa highlighted actual art work by teenagers, rather than exam work, which tends to be very controlled.. it would also mean that the work might tend to be about more interesting/contemporary issues, rather than safe themes such as "by the waterside"..