This exhibition includes a select set of works by the Aditi ISC Art students for the most part, and some from the AS and IGCSE programme sourced from Aditi’s HS & PU Art archive. This exhibition is curated around the theme of ‘still life’, the ‘touchstone of painting’*[1] as Manet once expressed.

Still life, as a genre in art, is a key component of the ICSE and ISC syllabi. As a part of our learning, we often refer to these still life samples, and this exhibition is a sharing of our classroom learning. 

Still life taught each and every one of us how to work from direct observation, draw forms in correct scale, proportion and placement, use correct tones, values, highlights, and shadows, and helped us learn basic compositional principles. We realised that still life is not just a set of common objects but has its own aesthetic order, and how we were responding to them through each medium was, in a way, developing our own personal style. In the process, we also had the chance to familiarise ourselves with master artists around the globe.

We, the art students of 12 ISC, 2025-26, spent considerable time looking through the still life folders from the HS & PU Art archive, carefully picking up those that were suitable in terms of both the typical still life genre as well as the experimental pieces influenced by the avant-garde ideas in art. We hope that through this exhibition we are able to present the language of still life – how ordinary objects can be represented in a work of art, and we hope that you enjoy these works just as much as we do.