Re-Imagine Art & Design Exhibition 2025

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    RE-IMAGINE 2025 was a week-long Bryanston Art and Design Exhibition which was held at the Royal Watercolour Society Gallery in London. It brought together outstanding work from across the Bryanston family including OBs, current pupils, and staff, highlighting imagination in all its forms.

    The breadth of Bryanston’s creative community was on full display. Works by OBs including Lucian Freud (P ’40), Howard Hodgkin (P ’48), Jasper Morrison (Sh ’78), Annabel Eyres (Ht ’83), Francesca Lowe (G ’97) and Sophie Smorczewski (G ’17) sat alongside contemporary staff and pupil pieces.

    “At the heart of RE-IMAGINE 2025 is the power of imagination – how ideas are sparked, explored, and realised,” said the curators. “Bryanston’s community includes acclaimed artists and designers as well as makers who create for the joy of expression, and the exhibition celebrated them all.”

     

    Visitors moved through a space of paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, and design, while artists created new work live throughout the week. Bryanston staff Doug Knight, Helen Dean, Amanda Mitchard and Tim Auty worked in situ, alongside Gary Cedeira, who developed a striking landscape over the course of the exhibition. OB Sandy Ostroumoff (P ’21) also created live in the gallery, joined by pupils Alfie G and Jalila B-M.

    A creative-networking lunch invited guests to pick up a brush and contribute to a collaborative artwork led by Helen Dean and Doug Knight. Evening receptions welcomed OBs, parents, governors, exhibiting artists, and friends of the school to mingle, tour the gallery, and acquire works, with a percentage of proceeds supporting the Bryanston Arts Bursary Fund.

    A special highlight saw OB Jack Ford (C ’07) and pupil Alfie G complete a multi-generational portrait of OB Sarah Bachra (G ’84), her daughter OB Callie Coles (Ht ’04), and grandson Jesse, now a Bryanston pupil. The paintings are an intimate creative portrayal of a Bryanston lineage.

    Designer Sebastian Conran (SA ’74) headlined a sold-out Spotlight event, reflecting on a career spanning product and brand development and roles across industry, government, and academia. He spoke candidly about how Bryanston nurtured the creativity and confidence that propelled his ambition, and about his ongoing contribution as a member of Bryanston’s Entrepreneurship & Innovation (E&I) Advisory Board.

    “I got a huge amount from being a part of the Bryanston community. My father and I really loved it there. And I don’t think we would have had such spiritually enriched lives if we had gone anywhere else.”

    Pupils from Bryanston and Bryanston Prep toured the exhibition, with the latter sketching their favourite works, demonstrating the school’s commitment to creative learning from the earliest years.

     

    “RE-IMAGINE 2025 perfectly reflected Bryanston – colourful, diverse, and each work with a unique voice. Seeing pupils across generations exchange ideas about their practice was a joy and I look forward to our next exhibition that will take place during Bryanston Centenary celebrations in 2027/2028.” Doug Knight, Head of Art

     

    Watch the video from our 2025 event