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documented. These words, alongside the imagery, OM photographer Finn Taylor, who is known for
create a narrative of identity, belonging, and capturing portraits of celebrities such as Snoop 01 OM Guy Bennett and
Headmaster Gavin Horgan
experience, forming a collective portrait of Dogg and Lewis Hamilton, and athletes including auctioning work by Upper
our school in its ninetieth year. Through these Robert Lewandowski and Eliud Kipchoge. After Sixth Makenzy
images and reflections, we glimpse not only the which, The Makenzy Beard and Supporting Artists 02 OM art auction
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faces of our present but also the rich tapestry of art auction was held. Millfield art scholar Makenzy Mallet prison prints
stories, ambitions, and connections that define Beard, former Christie’s auctioneer and OM Guy
our community. This book is more than a series Bennett, OM photographer Finn Taylor, OM
of portraits; it is a celebration of Millfield’s past, contemporary visual artist Marc Quinn, crochet
present, and future which is told through the eyes, and leaf artist Susanna Bauer and photographer
lenses, and voices of our students. The Millfield 90 and film director Sam Taylor-Johnson, collaborated
Portraits book is still available to purchase from in this Millfield Auction. The auction supported
the school shop with profits going to Millfield’s the Millfield Foundation's bursary fund, that
Discover Brilliance Campaign. assists talented students without financial means
to attend Millfield. All hammer price proceeds,
totalling £24,000 were fund-raised for the
OM Open Show and Makenzy Discover Brilliance Campaign for bursaries.
Beard auction
From the 26 February – 22 March 2025, the Old
Millfieldian Open exhibition was hosted in the Shepton Mallet Prison trip
Atkinson Gallery. This show celebrated the rich Lower Sixth photography A level students had
and diverse artistic talents of Millfield School’s the unique opportunity to experience taking
former students, during the school’s 90th year. A photographs on site at the decommissioned
diverse collection of works that featured painting, Shepton Mallet Prison as the students began
sculpture, photography, and more, were brought their Construction and Destruction photography
together as a testament to the dynamic talent that project. They shot their photographs using both
continues to thrive beyond the school’s walls. film cameras and digital SLR cameras. Once they
The show opened with a captivating talk by returned to school they processed their own

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