The Human Experience by Aryn Buttress, STE(A)M winner 2024
ART INSPIRED is an annual series of virtual reality online exhibitions of exemplary creations created by our Inspired School’s arts students aged 14–16 for their certificates and qualifications. This is a celebration of student achievement and a way to connect communities through the visual arts.
Open to students aged 14–16 years at Inspired Online Schools from academic years 2023–2024 and 2024–2025.
Submitting creations are completely online and free of charge.
Each student can submit one to three creations.
There is no theme for the creations submitted.
Creations submitted that are currently or due to be under assessment for exams
Older students can submit creations from academic year 2023–2024 providing the creations are no longer under assessment.
Creations submitted must be appropriate for an international audience, including children.
Awards will be presented at the Awards Ceremony event.
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Inspired Award | Awarded to a student who has shown outstanding arts leadership across media. |
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STE(A)M Award | Awarded to a student who shows ingenuity, inventiveness and elements of STEM in their creative work. |
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Creativity Award | Awarded for showing exceptional creativity. |
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Design, Lens-based and Digital Art Award | Awarded to the student who shows strong abilities in design and digital mediums or who shows ability in digital and analogue photographic mediums. |
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Painting and 3D Works Award | Awarded to the student who displays extraordinary skill using painting mediums or who shows unusual use of three-dimensional traditional mediums. |
Complete your details via the Entry Form by 12 noon (GMT) on Friday 11th May 2025. Please submit quality images that are of good resolution and shows the entire image without cropping or distortion. If you are submitting work on behalf of a student, please ensure you have their full permission. By submitting work via this form, each student agrees to our terms and conditions:
Entries will be assessed by our panel of judges and selected entries, alongside prize winners, will be shown and announced in our online virtual reality exhibition.
Joanna Middleburgh
Head of Art
King's InterHigh
Fiona Henderson
Head of Admin
King's InterHigh
Catriona Olsen
Executive Headteacher
King's InterHigh
Ashley Harrold
CEO
Inspired Online Schools
Matilda Burn
Head of European Ceramics and Glass
Christie's
Guest Judge
Diane Quinn
Programme and Partnerships Manager
NSEAD
Guest Judge
Student creations can be any material—for example painting, sculpture, lens-based media, installation, performance, film, animation, drawing, among others—or a combination of these. Students need to photograph physical creations for submission. There is no theme. All submissions must have been completed when you were 14–16 years old at your Inspired School in academic years 2023–2025. Artwork submitted that is currently or that is due to be under assessment for exams cannot be accepted.
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Student full name, age and which Inspired school you attend. |
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Each creation's title(s), medium, and size in cm. |
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Students can submit one to three digital images/media of up to three separate creations. |
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Students submit a short video of themselves talking about their body of work, what influenced them, and how they created their work – no longer than 3 minutes. |
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All images and media should be a good resolution and below 4 MB. |
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Accepted formats — JPG, PNG, PDF, MP4, MP3, PSD, AI, EPS and SVG. |
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Artist Statement or a short description on submitted work as a body of work or individually. |