"The Articulation prize is a competition for post-GCSE students, aged 16 to 19, who are given 10 minutes to present on a work of art of their choice. I was told about it by my head of sixth form, whose office I had ended up in just weeks before the competition. As a pupil, I was clever but chatty and easily distracted. I felt everything acutely and was frequently overwhelmed and tearful."
"I also took an all-or-nothing approach to my education: either be the best, or don't bother. In the office, we discussed my decision to drop history AS-level within weeks of starting because I didn't think it would be possible for me to finish it with an A. Not everything is death or glory, Verity, he implored. Along with my longsuffering art teacher, the head of sixth form recognised that Articulation was exactly the opportunity that I needed after all,"
A teenager, frustrated by global injustices, prepared a public-art presentation in March 2015 and felt she had solved inequality by invoking feminism. The regional heat took place in a basement room at Modern Art Oxford during the Articulation prize, a competition for post-GCSE students aged 16–19 who get 10 minutes to present on an artwork. The head of sixth form suggested the competition after advising the student following her withdrawal from history AS-level. The student described an all-or-nothing academic approach, frequent overwhelm, and found encouragement from her art teacher and head of sixth form to present Damien Hirst's medicine cabinets, first seen at Tate Modern.
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