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Our Year 12 and 13 Art students recently enjoyed an inspiring visit to The Wallace Collection in Manchester Square, taking part in a gallery-led tour followed by a two-hour life-drawing workshop. The experience offered a rich blend of art history, technical skill development, and creative exploration.

During the tour, students were introduced to key works from the collection and gained understanding of the historical contexts, cultural influences, and societal ideas that shaped them. This deeper knowledge of information supported students in making connections to their own studies and seeing how artists across centuries have used visual expression to reflect the world around them.

The life-drawing workshop that followed enabled students to put these ideas into practice. Under the guidance of the gallery team, they explored proportion, form, and observation techniques, applying what they had learned in a practical and thoughtful way.

Reflecting on the visit, Fatima in Year 12 said she now appreciates the paintings so much more now because she understands “the ideas and stories behind them”.

A big thank you to The Wallace Collection team for providing such a special and immersive experience that left our young artists inspired and full of new ideas to take back to their Art lesson.

From The Wallace Collection

"The Wallace Collection is an internationally outstanding national museum based in the central London and free to visit. It contains unsurpassed masterpieces of paintings, sculpture, furniture, arms and armour and porcelain. Built over the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by the Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, it is one of the finest and most celebrated collections in the world. So that it could be kept together and enjoyed by generations of visitors, the collection was given to the British Nation in 1897. It was an astonishing bequest and one of the greatest gifts of art works ever to be transferred into public ownership."