At the 2026 Astra Gala, Queenwood announced Artemis, the new Esther Road centre due to open in 2027.
The announcement marked more than the next stage in a campus development. Artemis gives form to a belief that has long shaped Queenwood: that academic performance is strengthened when girls have the breadth, confidence and opportunity to work across disciplines.
Bringing together art, engineering, design, technology, humanities and performing arts within a rigorous transdisciplinary environment, Artemis will create a dedicated home for the creative, technical and academic work that helps young women discover the power of their own ideas.
A dedicated space for these disciplines affirms that making, designing, performing, analysing and building are all intellectual acts.
It is an ambitious combination because, to achieve their potential, our girls need more than subject mastery alone. They need technical competence, ethical reasoning, creativity, character and leadership, and they need to understand how those capabilities work together.
This is, at its heart, a distinction between success and flourishing. Success can be narrow, achieved at the expense of everything else. Flourishing is fuller: it asks that a girl’s gifts, her relationships, her sense of purpose and her character grow together, so that she becomes not just capable, but genuinely, wholly herself. Artemis is built for that fuller ambition.
Inspired by the figure known as a protector of women and nurturer of the young, the name ‘Artemis’ was chosen with care.
Artemis carries the idea of strength joined with purpose, which sits closely with Queenwood’s commitment to educating girls who are both capable and grounded.
That combination of strength and purpose has a long history. Across art, science, and industry alike, women have had to fight for entry into the institutions and spaces where reputations were made and ideas were taken seriously. It took the same boldness for Queenwood’s founders to create a school of their own, nearly a century ago. Artemis stands in that tradition: a space built so that the next generation of young women does not have to fight for a room of their own, because Queenwood has built it for them.
In higher education, work and civic life, the questions young women will inherit rarely sit within one field. They will be asked to interpret, design, build, communicate, analyse, test, perform, persuade and consider consequence. A girl who can move between an engineering challenge, a public presentation, a design problem and a question of ethical judgement is developing more than a broad résumé. She is learning how to bring different kinds of thinking to a complex world.
Artemis will place young women at the centre of creative and technical endeavour, in an environment designed for them to work with confidence and ambition. It will support girls who already see themselves as artists, engineers, designers, performers, writers and athletes, while inviting others to discover capacities they may not yet have recognised in themselves.
The centre will also strengthen the relationship between curriculum and co-curricular opportunity at Queenwood. Productions, exhibitions, engineering builds, performances, design projects and technology challenges all ask students to prepare carefully, practise with discipline, revise their work, collaborate with others, and persist until an idea becomes stronger.
Artemis will be a place where creativity meets character, and where girls discover the power of their own ideas.
To support the Q Artemis Campaign is to help craft a setting where imagination has room to breathe and grow. By giving, we can together shape a place alive with possibility — a place where each girl can encounter new ideas and discover the direction her story will take.
