During the first week of the Easter holiday Sixth Form Art A-level students travelled to Margate. They were blessed with sunny, if a little blustery, weather during the three-day trip. On the way to Margate students visited The Historic Dockyard Chatham where they took part in a ropemaking workshop and drew the boats and engine parts using a range of media. Later that day students continued their journey to Margate where they checked into the Walpole Bay Hotel.
On the second day, students took part in two art workshops and visited the Turner Contemporary to see the Resistance photographic exhibition. Students drew structures along the Margate coastline, using wax resist, ink and collaged newsprint paper to create form and highlight negative space. They also constructed site-specific abstract card sculptures, which were attached to existing forms along the harbour wall. By popular demand, the evening’s entertainment was Mr Reed’s Quiz Night, hosted in the hotel’s ballroom, which was a fiercely competitive affair enjoyed by all.
On the third day, inspired by JMW Turner’s time in Margate, students painted the landscape using watercolour. In the afternoon students visited the Carl Freedman Gallery to see Gates of Horns: Myths of Resistance, Symbols of Defiance.
– Mr C Reed, Head of Art
