SCHOOLS PROGRAMME 2014-15
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WELCOME TO WATTS GALLERY AN ARTISTS’ VILLAGE About
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Special Needs
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Free Self-Guided Visits
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Projects
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Art Detective Tours
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Young People
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Workshops
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Teachers
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Exhibition Workshops
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Planning and booking your visit
Design Apprentice
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About
Free Self-Guided Visits
Watts Gallery opened in 1904 to display art by the great Victorian artist, G F Watts (1817-1904). Over 100 paintings are on permanent display in the Gallery including portraits, landscapes, symbolic and social realist paintings. There is also a purpose built sculpture gallery showing small studies and impressive large maquettes.
Tuesday – Friday Pre-booking required
Near the Gallery, is Watts Chapel, a unique Grade I listed building designed and built by Mary Seton Watts. It is covered in patterns and symbols. Mary involved the local community in making the decorative terracotta tiles and interior.
Curriculum All our activities support the national curriculum and post 14 exam courses. Activities can be differentiated for different key stages and to support specific themes and learning outcomes.
Exploring the collections, exhibitions and architecture supports and enriches learning across the curriculum and at all key stages. Visit the permanent collections and exhibitions or combine with a visit to the Grade I listed Watts Chapel. Download Teachers’ and Students’ notes to use on your visit.
2014/15 Exhibitions A Russian Fairytale: the Art and Craft of Elena Polenova 18 November 2014 – 8 February 2015 Liberating Fashion: Aesthetic Dress in Victorian Portraits 17 February – 7 June 2015 The Art of Bedlam: Richard Dadd 16 June – 1 November 2015 3
ART DETECTIVE TOURS ‘I paint ideas, not objects’ G F Watts
Art Detective - Gallery 1hr (£30)
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With a guide, explore five works of art in the Gallery followed by interactive activities to develop critical thinking and creativity. Tours explore different kinds of art and are adapted for different key stages. If you are studying a particular topic, let us know and we will try and tailor the session for you.
Popular Primary Themes: Greek Myths & Legends, Different Kinds of Art, Victorian Life, Sculpture, Portraits
Popular Secondary Themes: Fashion & Idenity, Portraiture, Social Issues, Sculpture, Symbolism, 19th Century Britain, Art techniques and styles, Expressing Ideas.
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Art Detective – Chapel 1hr (£30)
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With a guide discover the history of the chapel and explore different styles of art, architecture and symbolism. Find angels, mice, frogs and birds and then sketch inside and outside.
WORKSHOPS
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Portraiture
2 hrs (£75) hours Key stage 1 - 5 Explore the extraordinary Arts & Crafts style Grade I listed Watts Chapel and hear how Mary Watts involved local children to make it. Search for symbols, discover what they mean and then back in the studio make your own terracotta clay tile.
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Drawing
Big Issues
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hours 2 hrs (£75) Key Stage 3 - 5 Imagine what it was like to be an Art Student in the 19th Century. See drawings not normally on display and discover the techniques G F Watts used, including drawings he made when he was just 10 years old. Then, in the Gallery, make sketches and drawings, working with different materials and at easels.
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Key stage 1 - 2 Examine the clothes worn by people in G F Watts’s paintings to learn about Victorian society and try on replica clothes to re-enact the stories in the paintings, creating your own Carte-de-visite to take back to school.
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Key Stage 3 - 5 Explore the social, political, spiritual and environmental issues G F Watts cared about and reflected in his paintings, sculpture and site-specific work. Then, make art work or visual campaigns about issues you care about.
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EXHIBITION WORKSHOPS
A Russian Fairytale
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Woodland Explorer
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2 hours £75 24th November 2014 - 6th February 2015 Key Stage 1 - 5
2 hours £75 22nd June – 23rd October 2015 Key Stage 1 – 5
Step into Russian Fairytales this winter.
Explore the surreal world of Richard Dadd
Discover unusual stories, explore the beautiful paintings and objects in the exhibition with an interactive tour and then make illustrations and traditional Christmas decorations in a Russian style.
through investigative and multi-sensory activities in the exhibition and landscape surrounding the Gallery. Make drawings and a woodland lantern with recycled natural materials.
Dramatic Dress 2 hours £75 23rd February - 5th June 2015 Key Stage 1 – 5
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Discover different kinds of Victorian fashion and explore what the portraits reveal about Victorian society. Make an outfit for a peg doll. Secondary students can also create design drawings. 6
DESIGN APPRENTICE
G F and Mary Watts trained Apprentices to develop their art and design skills. These special projects for Key Stage 3 – 5 students are an opportunity to develop design thinking and making skills and take part in a professional crit.
Design Apprentice: Fashion 3 hours £95 September – December 2014 Key Stage 3 – 5
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Design Apprentice: Architecture 3 hours £95 December – May 2015 Key Stage 3 – 5
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Watts Studios are currently being restored. Spend the morning in the archives and visiting the site of the studios to discover the inventive side of G F and Mary Watts. Investigate materials and structure, before responding to a brief to design a structure back at school, to be judged by professional architects.
Galleries have long been a source of inspiration for fashion designers. What would you design, inspired by the collections and architecture? In this project, create fashion designs and accessories, inspired by art, design, fashion and architecture seen at Watts Gallery. Make your designs back at school and show them in a Fashion Show at Watts Gallery on 25th February.
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SPECIAL NEEDS
PROJECTS
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Watts Studios
Students with special educational needs are welcome at Watts Gallery. Studio Workshops and Art Detective Tours can be tailored to meet the needs of students. We also provide a special multi-sensory chapel tour which is suitable for students with visual impairments and PMLD. Please note that the walk to the chapel is quite steep. We advise all teachers to make a preliminary visit to meet with the learning team before bringing their class.
We are currently restoring the studios where G F Watts and Mary Seton Watts worked. The studios are based in their home, Limnerslease, just across the road from the Gallery. Here, we are developing new galleries and building new learning studios. Students will be able to explore traditional making techniques in art, craft and design and then try these for themselves both inside and outside.
Take Part Take part in the pre-opening project. Activities include a chance to work on design projects, create time-capsules, make ceramics for the garden, explore heritage archives and make a film. For more details contact learningofficer@wattsgallery.org.uk
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YOUNG PEOPLE
TEACHERS’ EVENTS
The Art Forum
Introductions & Professional Development
Free Fortnightly from 9th September
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Tell your GCSE and A Level students about The Art Forum. They can take part in creative projects, write exhibition reviews, give gallery talks and get involved in real live Gallery projects and events. They can also use our studio to make their own artwork and work towards Arts Awards. For more details contact learningapprentice@wattsgallery.org.uk
Get to know Watts Gallery. We can organise CPD and INSET days. Come along as a visitor to see the Gallery and take part in events.
Creative Views Free, 5.30pm – 7.30pm After hours exhibition private views with talks and activities to spark teaching and learning ideas for education professionals. A Russian Fairytale: the Art and Craft of Elena Polenova 19th November 2014 Liberating Fashion: Aethetic Dress in Victorian Portraits 25th February 2015 The Art of Bedlam: Richard Dadd 17th June 2015 9
PLANNING & BOOKING A VISIT To Book 01483 901 805 schools@wattsgallery.org.uk Watts Gallery, Down Lane, Compton, Surrey, GU3 1DQ All visits (including self-guided) need to be booked at least three weeks in advance.
Charges Self-guided school group visits are free. There are costs for some activities. Prices exclude VAT. Cancellation charges apply when less than ten days’ notice given.
Planning Once you have made a booking, teachers are welcome to make a pre-visit, free of charge. You can also arrange to meet with the Learning Department to talk through your visit. Free online resources are available to download.
Lunch Schools can bring a packed lunch and eat this on picnic tables in fine weather or book The Old Kiln.
Access Pupils with special and additional learning needs are welcome. All activities can be differentiated. Sessions can also be delivered as outreach visits to hospital schools and other schools if children are unable to visit the Gallery.
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