NEWS, EV ENTS & AC T I V I T I ES
Art Exhibitions The Gallery has been busy this year with a wide-ranging and inspiring programme of exhibitions and displays. We aim, where possible, to use the space as an arena where we can show our own pupils’ achievements, but also bring other work into the space, whether by pupils within the local community, or practising artists from further afield. We held five exhibitions over the course of the year, all of which helped towards representing our varied and outward-facing attitude to Art education.
OUT OF BODY The rationale behind this exhibition was to present a theme (in this case ‘the body’), and show how professional artists have produced work under this very loose umbrella. The exhibition brought together four artists from very different disciplines, including a painter, a sculptor, a photographer and a graphic artist, and provided a very useful starting point for pupils to respond. We also held life drawing classes within the space for Sixth Form pupils. As a further layer to the exhibition, we ran a postcard competition for our own pupils and pupils from local ISSP schools, and the English department also ran a Haiku competition on the same theme, the winner of which was included as a stencilled exhibit within the exhibition.
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The Peterite 2018–2019
