APT Enables is a funded education programme which aims to focus and extend APT's profile in visual arts education by offering a broad range of support to students, teachers, artists and curators
 


Breaking Boundaries

24 - 27 June 2009

Private View: 24 June 2009

Secondary School Project with Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College and St Matthews Academy

Workshops led by Jack Brown and Margaret Higginson

 
The Creekside Open is a biennial open submission exhibition for visual artists based in London. This year Jenni Lomax, Director of the Camden Arts Centre and Mark Wallinger have selected their own individual exhibition from the same submission.

Taking this unique selection process as a catalyst for an education project, APT invited GCSE students from Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College and St Matthews Academy to work on a project about barriers, splitting up, duality and linking the unlinkable.

 

 

Breaking Boundaries has been led by APT artists, Jack Brown and Maggie Higginson. Following an in-school introduction to the project, the two groups of year ten GSCE students visited the APT Gallery on Creekside, Deptford. The students worked in the gallery space for a day responding to the exhibited work and the project's theme and produced a number of sculptures, drawing and paintings and photographs. The students were encouraged to work in new mediums, consider how their work could be placed within the exhibition space, take risks and play with scale.

The students continued to work on their individual pieces back at college and in June both groups of students will return to the Gallery to hang their show. The thirty students will spend a day discussing possible methods of display and how and where to hanging their work. They will also take part in a collaborative drawing/installation project which will illustrate their personal experience of taking part in this joint project. The exhibition will be open from 24 - 27 June 2009 from 12 to 5pm
Breaking Boundaries not only gives local teenagers a chance to respond to some of the best contemporary art being produced in London, it also gives them the chance to look further than geographical or social boundaries and to challenge their perceptions about art, artists and other young people.