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The British Art Show is widely recognised as the most ambitious and influential exhibition of contemporary British art.
We’ve been overwhelmed with interest from schools and colleges and are now fully booked with more than 2,800 pupils and students set to visit our galleries over the next few weeks.
Although we cannot unfortunately accept anymore bookings to visit with your classes there are still a number of ways that you can engage them with the exhibition.
Our free, downloadable Teachers Pack contains a series of example ativities that can be run in the classroom using the themes of the exhibition. We’ve also created a free, downloadable Medium Term Plan for a series of KS2 Art and Design lessons based on the exhibition.
A list of the key themes and questions that relate to the work in the exhibition are given below to assist with your lesson planning. In addition, we would be very happy to host photographic examples of your class responses on Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery’s Flickr photostream.
British Art Show 7 – Themes and Questions
Past and Present
How can the past help us understand the present? Can we imagine time as anything other than a line? What role might memory play in this?
Parallel Realities
Can we imagine worlds different from our own? How might this help us to understand our own world?
The Order of Things
How are the elements that make up our world categorised? How is knowledge structured? Who decides these things? What are the alternatives?
Signs of Change
What makes the present the present? Can we point to things that make now now? How was the future imagined in the past
Orbits
What does it mean for artists to reference the art of the past? What does it mean when an ‘old’ idea resurfaces?
