Year 9 Trip to Barbican Centre and Estate

On Friday 9 October, Year 9 GCSE art students visited the Barbican Estate and the Barbican Centre as part of their current project focusing on ‘Urban Landscapes.’

Students mainly focused on taking photographs of the distinctive architecture of the estate and had already received some training in using DSLR cameras. The photographs will be presented in their portfolio with some being used as the starting point for lino cut printing.
We also had an opportunity to visit the Robert Ryman exhibition in the gallery, which provided plenty of stimulus for conversation about abstraction, space and texture.

The students were a credit to the school, and we were lucky to have a (mainly) dry day for all students to gather a series of well-lit and composed images. We will share the results of the lino cut printing in a future newsletter.