Andrew Darke is an artist with an extensive career nationally and internationally. His work spans a number of fields and includes pieces for siting both indoors and outside. Early work was principally wood sculpture, often on a large scale relating to landscape. Recent 3D work is also responsive to the elements, wind and water particularly, and is fired by a passion for the outdoors and wilder places. Photography, video and sound recording works bring outdoor experiences inside for contemplation.

As a founding member of an artists' group (Art & Place) in the early nineties, renamed PLACE in 1995, Darke began work to reduce the impact of infrastructure developments on the environment and also engaged on urban regeneration projects. PLACE's focus in Cardiff Bay was on qualities of the bay which would subsequently be erased by the building of the Cardiff Bay Barrage. Work with the mobile phone industry, the Countryside Agency and the Forestry Commission to reduce the impact of mobile phone masts in the landscape followed and currently PLACE is working as an official consultee for National Grid and is calling for the undergrounding of 400kV and other power lines. These consultations are now changing National Grid’s working practices.

The environmental theme running right through Darke's work is underpinned by the conviction that retaining, and being able to have access to, land which is not dominated by humanity is crucial for the well being of us all and for many other species. He was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 2008 for his work in arts and environment.

St Paul's College student 1947-1949

Daughter of Hannah Fallding, Cheltenham Training College student 1851 - 1852

St Mary's student 1917 - 1919

St Mary's College student 1960 - 1963 [first three year course intake]

St Paul's College student 1921-1923

St Mary’s student 1913-1915

St Mary's College student 1935 - 1937

St Mary's College student 1938 - 1940

St Paul's student 1907 - 1909

Daughter-in-Law of Leslie John Cotton, maintenance man at St Paul's College late 1970s to early 1980s

St Mary's College student 1931-1933

Daughter of J J Voyce, St Paul's College student 1923 - 1925

St Paul’s student c.1908-1910

St Mary's College student 1951-1953

Ex-staff member, University of Gloucestershire

St Mary's College student 1956 - 1958

Jeff Cooper is the grandson of Lascelles Abercrombie. He was co-editor of the journal "Four Decades of Poetry, 1890-1930" between 1976 and 1979, Chairman of the Friends of the Dymock Poets from 2011 until 2014, and founded and edited the "Dymock Poets and Friends" journal from 2002-2015. He helped instigate the Dymock Poets collection at Cheltenham and Gloucestershire College of Higher Education, and is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Gloucestershire

St Paul's College student 1964 - 1967
Old Students' Association Executive Committee member

GCHQ Historian

St Mary's College student 1943 - 1945

St Paul's College student 1956 - 1958

St Mary's College student 1959 - 1961

St Paul's student 1912 - 1914

Lecturer at St Mary’s 1919 - 1930

St Mary’s College student 1943-1945

St Mary's College student 1923 - 1925

St Mary's College student 1938-1940

St Mary’s College student 1938 - 1940

St Paul's College student 1939 - 1941

The Priory Hostel student 1928 - 1930

Vice-Principal of St Mary's College 1962 – 1976

St Paul’s College student 1926 - 1928

St Mary’s College student 1926 - 1928

Appointed in 2007, Cattrell was selected as joint winner of the Bombay Sapphire Glass Prize. She also had work in a show at the V&A in London in which her work clearly demonstrated her commitment to exploring complex details of structures and light. Echo, Annie’s sculpture for the Trail, provides another interpretation of the forest, responding to the geological history and the material nature of the landscape.

Located in, and cast from, Kensley Quarry, Echo nestles opposite its source. Like a 3D photograph, a moment in the life of the 310 million year lifetime of pennant sandstone has been frozen in time, every detail is there to discover in the surface of the sculpture.

St Paul's College student 1929 - 1931

St Paul's College student 1952 - 1954

Henry was born in Bath in 1987. After studying at the University of Gloucestershire and Wimbledon School of Art (2007-2010), Henry graduated with a 1st class Honours degree and was the joint winner of the final years Landmark Sculpture Prize. He went on to participate in a number of group shows in London galleries. On the strength of his degree show he was invited to exhibit in the Anticipation Exhibition, showcasing the best of London’s graduates and post graduates, which was selected by Kay Saatchi. Shortly after, he became the recipient of Jupiter Artland’s 2010 summer residency, which had been open to all graduates from the colleges of The University of the Arts, London that year. As a result, Jupiter Artland commissioned an artwork for their permanent collection. Hare Hill was installed in the summer of 2012.

Henry has since been involved in a long term project at Rubislaw quarry in Aberdeen, making works in response to Europe’s largest manmade hole, where plans are ongoing to create a heritage centre to celebrate the history of granite in the city. Some of this work, including ‘The depth of time’ was shown in Spinach in Islington in 2014 - 2015. He currently lives and works from his studio in Windsor, and was elected to the Royal British Society of Sculptors

St Mary's student 1914 - 1916

Great-nephew of Robert Sparks, Cheltenham Training College student 1914 - 1916