DOI Heft:
No.127 (October, 1903)
DOI Artikel:Bare, H. Bloomfield: The annual exhibition at the Mount Street School of Art, Liverpool
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19880#0067
Mount Street School of Art, Liverpool
done and to be doing important work
in the direction in which future im-
provement in such institutions is to be
hoped for. The conventions of the
South Kensington system have been
abandoned in favour of a more prac-
tical and more useful method of train-
ing, in which attention is paid rather
to fitting students for employment in
after life than to teaching the pro-
fession of scholarship gaining. By
this system students gravitate natu-
rally into definite callings as the
result of the careful development of
their capabilities within the school, and
they are consequently not left so depen-
dent upon the chances of external life
when, on the completion of their studies,
they go out to face the world.
Not only to design but to work out
the design in the actual material for
which it is intended is another feature
of the training, and emphasis is laid
upon the principle of regarding the
material and purpose of a work as
essential conditions of its expression,
the form and character of which must
always be controlled by such con-
ditions. It is considered that a crafts-
stencilled design for by florence laverock . .
w all hanging man thoroughly acquainted with the
natural capacities of his material, and
understanding the conditions of his
dress buckles and other minor adornments by work, should be able, if he has any invention, to
Kate Fisher, Annie McLeish, Violet Brunton and design appropriately in that material, and no
Nora Evers- Swindell de-
serve favourable mention.
The exhibition of the
Travelling Scholarship work
done by May Cooksey
during a year's stay in Italy
was a display of great in-
dustry, uncommon versa-
tility, good taste in selection
of subject, skilful execution
and a general high standard
of attainment, extremely
creditable to the student
as well as a source of
satisfaction and a cause
of congratulation to the
head-master and staff of
the Mount Street School.
This School may with
justice be said to have embroidered sideboard cloth by Helena shaw
5°
done and to be doing important work
in the direction in which future im-
provement in such institutions is to be
hoped for. The conventions of the
South Kensington system have been
abandoned in favour of a more prac-
tical and more useful method of train-
ing, in which attention is paid rather
to fitting students for employment in
after life than to teaching the pro-
fession of scholarship gaining. By
this system students gravitate natu-
rally into definite callings as the
result of the careful development of
their capabilities within the school, and
they are consequently not left so depen-
dent upon the chances of external life
when, on the completion of their studies,
they go out to face the world.
Not only to design but to work out
the design in the actual material for
which it is intended is another feature
of the training, and emphasis is laid
upon the principle of regarding the
material and purpose of a work as
essential conditions of its expression,
the form and character of which must
always be controlled by such con-
ditions. It is considered that a crafts-
stencilled design for by florence laverock . .
w all hanging man thoroughly acquainted with the
natural capacities of his material, and
understanding the conditions of his
dress buckles and other minor adornments by work, should be able, if he has any invention, to
Kate Fisher, Annie McLeish, Violet Brunton and design appropriately in that material, and no
Nora Evers- Swindell de-
serve favourable mention.
The exhibition of the
Travelling Scholarship work
done by May Cooksey
during a year's stay in Italy
was a display of great in-
dustry, uncommon versa-
tility, good taste in selection
of subject, skilful execution
and a general high standard
of attainment, extremely
creditable to the student
as well as a source of
satisfaction and a cause
of congratulation to the
head-master and staff of
the Mount Street School.
This School may with
justice be said to have embroidered sideboard cloth by Helena shaw
5°