Estorick-led sessions support creative learning across the curriculum. While looking at the artworks, students will exercise their skills in language, history and geography as well as visual literacy, engaging in creative and enjoyable projects.
Handling of materials, additional photographs, manifesto facsimiles and sound recordings can all be used to bring the sessions to life and to support the learning outcomes. Students can record from first-hand observation in the galleries, whilst being encouraged to use their imagination.
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Mini Curators
Art and Design EYFS and KS1
Students will have the chance to learn what an art collection is and how collectors make their picks. In the role of a curator, pupils will explore the range of artworks at the Estorick Collection and think about these pieces as a part of a whole. The debate will support pupils to develop their observation skills and artistic language to express their likes and choices. This will be followed by a practical activity where they will work in groups to make their selection and create a mock exhibition.
Meaningful Objects
Art and Design at KS2
Focusing on still life compositions by Giorgio Morandi, this session explores how the artist arranges objects, uses colour, and selects techniques to construct narratives and evoke emotion. Students will be guided to observe how these artistic choices affect the viewer and contribute to the stories the works tell.
Following the discussion, pupils will take part in a hands-on activity, experimenting with their own still life compositions. Using a selection of everyday objects, they will create arrangements that tell a story, and then reproduce their compositions on paper through drawing or collage.
Art in Motion
Cross-curricula at KS2
Concentrating on the works by Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini and Umberto Boccioni learners will have the chance to discover the various approaches that these artists employed to illustrate visually continuous movement.
The discussion will assist pupils to think of the range of approaches used by the different artists with a particular focus on Divisionist’s short, uniform brush strokes of pure complementary colours and the fractured spaces, repetitive images and swirling patterns in Futurist studies. Students will then create their own flip book, making drawings based on works from the permanent collection. They will learn how to combine images in order to portray movement.
Colourful Sounds
Cross-curricula at KS2
Using Luigi Russolo’s masterpiece Music (1911), learners will discover the concept of synaesthesia along with the way that the sounds around us have been a source of inspiration for many of artists. The discussion will support students in developing their abstract thinking, visual literacy and creativity as well as being able to identify sounds and colours through Russolo’s painting. Students will then create their own pieces, making drawings based on sounds from our environment. They will learn how to combine images in order to portray movement.