The Art department took all the Upper and Lower 6th form Photography students to the Tate Modern and the Photographer’s Gallery to see the ‘Modernist Eye’; an exhibition of seminal photographic works from the 1920’s to the 1950’s which now form part of Elton John’s personal collection. We also encouraged the girls to study other photographic works in the Tate, which currently includes a number of rooms exploring ‘Art and Society’ This has works by the Bechers and Thomas Struth, all of which will further their research and development of their A level Coursework Portfolios.

At the same time in the Photographer’s Gallery we saw an exhibition of Feminist Avant–Garde of the 1970s, an expansive exhibition comprising forty-eight international female artists and over 150 major works from the VERBUND COLLECTION in Vienna. Focusing on photographs, collage works, performances, films and videos produced throughout the 1970s, the exhibition reflected a moment during which practices of emancipation, gender equality and civil rights protest movements became part of public discourse.