News Art and Design Trip to the V&A and Natural History Museum 08.11.2024

On Wednesday, Year 11 Art and Design GCSE students spent the day investigating the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and Natural History Museum.

The purpose of the visit was for all 58 students to enrich their GCSE coursework through selected artefacts which resonated with their own individual themes which use ‘object as metaphor’ as their starting point. Each student selected a range of objects to document through photography, written analysis and two observational drawings which evidenced a high degree of technical skill.

The extraordinary diversity of the museum collections gave the students the opportunity to stretch their creative thinking skills, and they all approached this with maturity and invention. Their GCSE coursework will be greatly enriched by this valuable experience, as students were able to develop their ideas in a new context.

Students’ observational drawings from their trip to the V&A and Natural History Museum