New art facilities to enhance school’s visual arts college status The Acanthus Clews education team have produced exciting designs for a new art gallery and workshop for a school awarded visual arts status. Chenderit School in North Oxfordshire is set to become a symbol for visual arts and will have the facilities to match. The new gallery is designed as a steel framed structure and will be located next to the main entrance with access for the public. The roof is fully glazed and extends beyond the footprint of the gallery, to provide a covered way into the school. The walls are a combination of glazed and cedar boarded panels. The workshop area has been designed as a simple extension to the existing art block facilities. It is essentially an open plan, single storey space, lit from above to allow large-scale sculpture and painting projects to be undertaken. The materials used are sympathetic to the existing school, but treated in a more contemporary fashion. Lord Heseltine and the artist, Anthony Green, will open the new facilities in early June. | 
Head of art, John Childs, and students study Acanthus Clews’ plans. (Photo Banbury Guardian) |
