The winners of Taylor Wimpey’s Spencer Fields Community Art Project have been revealed.
At the end of last year, Taylor Wimpey East Scotland invited S3 art students at Inverkeithing High School to create designs that would inspire the design of feature panels for the railings in the Spencer Fields development.
The students were set a brief that formed part of their design studies for their last term of 2023. The theme was ‘Inverkeithing’ and they were to take inspiration from its location, wildlife, nature, people, history, heritage, and Spencerfield House.
Over 100 entries were shortlisted for a judging panel made up of three local councillors, a representative from the community council, as well as a class teacher from Inverkeithing High, and Taylor Wimpey’s artist blacksmiths to review.
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The judges selected ten designs which will now interpreted by the team at Ratho Byres Forge and forged in steel to be placed within the feature railings.
Pauline Mills, Technical Director for Taylor Wimpey East Scotland said: “These unique pieces of art reflect the student’s inspiration from their local area and showcase their brilliant talent for art.
"We are incredibly pleased with the quality of the designs the students have created for us, in fact, we originally set out to choose five winners, but the standard of entries was so high that our judging panel agreed that we had to recognise more designs.
“We are confident that the local homeowners living at Spencer Fields and indeed the wider local community will be very proud of the completed panels once they are installed at the development.”
The winners are all studying S3 art, and they are Eilidh Brown, Sophia Scott, Jessica Baird, Paige Dunsmuir, Avril Smith, Sophie Hislop, Destiny Chikomba, Zainab Jaffery, Isla Young, and Fearne Riach.
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Lois Wiseman, art teacher at Inverkeithing High, added: “This was an incredible opportunity for our students to get involved in, and we are very pleased with how they all responded to the brief from Taylor Wimpey East Scotland.
The feature panels will be forged in steel and will provide a lasting legacy between our school and the new development at Spencer Fields for decades to come. The ten winners now have the opportunity to visit the forge in Ratho to see their designs come to life before they are invited along to the development to see the panels in situ.
It’s a very exciting project to be involved in.”
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