Art students enjoy trips to London and Bristol

News - Jul 18

Our trip to London this month met and freshly fuelled all our creative needs. Ten  A Level students spent four fascinating days visiting the Tate Modern to the Tate Britain, the National Gallery to the National Portrait Gallery and the Saatchi to the Design Museum and the V&A.  

 
As always, all the students did us proud: sketching on the bus journey there, sketching whilst on the tube and within each gallery, for hours on end. Even after an evening meal, having been immersed in art all day, the students would get out their pencils and charcoal and work on the dormitory floor, responding to the works that had inspired them during that day. Seriously impressive stamina!  
 

Personally, this visit was a real creative boost. Through the ‘After Impressionism’ exhibition at the National Gallery, I saw again, and relived the brilliance and ground-breaking colour work of the Post Impressionists and how their work paved the way for Cubism. Similarly, Ai Weiwei’s exhibition was a pertinent and, at times, heart-breaking commentary on humanity and activism which was truly fascinating and a privilege to see.  

A few weeks ago, Year 10 Art students also spent a fantastic day in Bristol. We visited the Flo Brooks exhibition at Spike Island and the Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City exhibition curated by a past student of Colyton (Kathryn J) at the RWA (Royal West of England Academy). The art works recorded by the students will form part of their GCSE coursework – it was genuinely heart-warming to see 45 students on the gallery floor drawing intently. Copies of their work are on display in the gallery space in the Art centre currently.Huge thanks go to Mrs Harris for coming on the London trip and in giving up her weekend and days off, Miss Tucker and Miss Woods for coming to Bristol, and to Mr Fitzgerald for his hours of organisation on our part in making both trips a success. 

Written by Mrs S Willey