Year 11 and Upper Sixth Visit Tate Britain and Tate Modern

Year 11 and Upper Sixth Visit Tate Britain and Tate Modern

On Tuesday 7 February, Year 11 and Upper Sixth Art pupils went on a joyous trip to the Tate Britain and the Tate Modern art galleries. 

Firstly, they headed to the Tate Britain to see an outstanding exhibition by Lynette Yiadomi-Boakye who paints inexplicable portraits of people of whom she has imagined and been inspired by through found images.  This was a great starting point as the girls have just received their assessed title for component two of their A levels. 

Following Tate Britain, the group then took a lovely scenic walk across the River Thames where they were able to admire the beautiful architecture of buildings like the Houses of Parliament and structures such as the London Eye and London Bridge as they took in the views going down the river, which was sparkling due to the great weather.  After their walk, they went to the food stalls that were on Embankment, where they had delicious street food including pizza, burritos and toasties and churros! 

Then the girls headed to Tate Modern to see the works of Maria Bartuszova whose art explores relationships between people, nature, matter and form through simple clay sculptures of raindrops, eggs etc, taking inspiration from organic forms and cycles in the natural world.  This artwork was so simple in what it actually was, yet the meanings behind were so complex, which reflected the Upper Sixth's assessed title: Simple and Complex.  Then the group had time to roam around the other exhibitions in the Tate Modern, getting more inspiration for their projects.  An exhibition that Sixth Form student, Daisy (U6MAC), chose to investigate was ‘Media Networks’.  She found this fascinating as it linked the media and topical subjects to art, and how the past hundred years has responded to the impact of mass media and the ever-changing technologies that shape our world.  Daisy's favourite room of the exhibition was room 11, which housed Babel, a piece by Cildo Meireles.  This immersive work explores information overload and failed communication and is made up of hundreds of different radio from different years, all tuned to a different station.