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When the going get's tough, the GCSE students get going. The girls worked hard today on their mock preparation, regardless of it being a Saturday. Bravo girls!

Coming up...

November
A Level Art trip to Tate Modern to see Modigianli and Kabakov.

February
A Level Fashion & Textiles study trip to The Balenciaga exhibition at V & A.

March
GCSE  Fashion & Textiles workshop at Warner Studios.
A Level Fashion & Textiles Japanese pattern cutting workshop.
IB Exhibition

6th Form at The Photographers Gallery, London.

U6 and L6 photographers visited The Photographer’s Gallery in London for the long-awaited exhibition by acclaimed American photographer, Gregory Crewdson.

‘Cathedral of Pines’ explores human relations within natural environments. Ambiguous narratives probe tensions between human connection and separation, intimacy and isolation, all set in a dystopian landscape depicting the anxious American imagination.

5th Year at Tate Britain to see Rachel Whiteread

5th Year Artists visited Tate Britain to see one of Britain’s leading contemporary artists, Rachel Whiteread, who uses industrial materials such as plaster, concrete, resin, rubber and metal to cast everyday objects and architectural space. Her evocative sculptures range from the intimate to the monumental.

Born in London in 1963, Whiteread was the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993. The same year she made House 1993–1994, a life-sized cast of the interior of a condemned terraced house in London’s East End, which existed for a few months before it was controversially demolished.

U4 Art Textiles students at The Museum of Natural History, London.

Students spent a research day in The Natural History Museum taking inspiration from the collections there to inform this years theme 'Inside Out'. The aim of the project is to focus on the human body from the inside and students were given the opportunity to do so while examining The Spirit Collection, where numerous organic forms have been preserved in liquid and kept in glass jars. Some of the specimens date back to 1800’s and were collected by Darwin himself. 

Students also learned how hormones affect the body, how senses influence perception, how the memory functions and how the brain and other organs work together. Studies the students made in their sketchbook are the basis for their research, which will be developed over the course of the year into a wearable garment. Watch this space!