Artist for a day: Antony Gormley
Primary school practical workshop
1 October 2019 10.15am - 1.30pm2 October 2019 10.15am - 1.30pm7 October 2019 10.15am - 1.30pm10 October 2019 10.15am - 1.30pm11 October 2019 10.15am - 1.30pm14 October 2019 10.15am - 1.30pm15 October 2019 10.15am - 1.30pm16 October 2019 10.15am - 1.30pm17 October 2019 10.15am - 1.30pm18 October 2019 10.15am - 1.30pm28 October 2019 10.15am - 1.30pm29 October 2019 10.15am - 1.30pm30 October 2019 10.15am - 1.30pm31 October 2019 10.15am - 1.30pm
The Clore Learning Centre, Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts
Free, booking required.
Antony Gormley
Our primary, secondary and FE workshops are supported by
Your students will become artists for a day at this exhibition tour and practical sculpture workshop inspired by the work of sculptor Antony Gormley RA.
These workshops are now fully booked. Please make an enquiry to be added to our waiting list. You will be contacted if your preferred slots become available.
In small groups, students will move through the exhibition and engage in discussion about the work of contemporary sculptor Antony Gormley, as they see his work firsthand. The exhibition will explore Gormley’s wide-ranging use of organic and industrial materials over the years, including iron, steel, lead, seawater and clay. Students will explore this wide-ranging exhibition and the large-scale installations, becoming aware of their own bodies, in and as part of space.
As well as newly reconfigured sculptures, your students will discover a selection of Gormley’s pocket sketchbooks and drawings. They will encounter rarely-seen smaller-scale early works from the 1970s and 1980s, some of which led to Gormley using his own body as a tool to create work.
Inspired by the exhibition, students will return to the purpose-built Clore Learning Centre to create their own sculptural responses to the exhibition to take back to school.
All our creative workshops are led by practicing artists and supported by specially trained DBS-checked volunteers.