The Art department provides many opportunities for our boys to experience cultural life both in and beyond the College. To give two examples, we have seen pupils at the heart of the architectural vision for The Laboratory - working with artists Peter Randall-Page and Conrad Shawcross - and organising a public exhibition as part of the ‘Bold Tendencies’ art project in Peckham. Boys visit galleries here in London as well as New York, Florence and Madrid, to name but a few. During the recent New York trip, a Remove student commented on his experience of a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: ‘I immediately adored how the profound mundane that William Eggleston depicted could be so powerful and absorbing – this was the first time I felt I had really connected with the work of an artist in which his subsequent influence has played a part in a lot of my artistic ideas. Being able to see his exhibition at the New York MET was a real privilege and a point where I became more mature in my outlook of art.’ Durril Weller, OA (now on the Ravensbourne Foundation course)
Leo Bradley, New York sketchbook 2013.
In response to a visit to the Whitney Museum of American Art another student remarked: ‘For me, the trip was, to pardon the horrendous cliché, a voyage of cultural discovery… It was the fourth day when I encountered a revelation… Jay DeFeo made me want to be a better man.’ Zooey Gleaves, OA (1st year BA History of Art, Bristol University) Here in London boys have recently visited Tate Britain, Tate Modern, The Hayward Gallery, The Wallace Collection, Frieze Art Fair and the Courtauld Institute. We also make frequent trips to work with artists, art historians and curators at Dulwich Picture Gallery. ‘Art trips are not passive events or time spent aimlessly wandering through a gallery with an exhibition guide – they are fully immersive activities that reveal to us the possibilities of what we can create as we mature as artists.’ Josh Cotton, OA (Kingston University Foundation course)
Robbie Crace at the Guggenheim Museum, NYC.
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