Art Trip (January 2018)

Art Trip (January 2018)

Art Trip (January 2018) – students undertaking their Arts Award and GCSE Art studies were taken to Derby Museum and Art Gallery for inspiration and motivation.  The museum and art gallery was established in 1879 and has numerous floors with different zones and topics.  With longstanding and temporary exhibits, the Museum and Art Gallery boasts paintings and artefacts that are of both local and international significance.  Derby Museum and Art Gallery is located at the heart of Derby City in the cultural Cathedral Quarter. The museum houses a dedicated gallery of internationally significant paintings by world famous artist Joseph Wright of Derby, alongside a new display of portraits from the museum’s large art collection, and a lively programme of temporary exhibitions. The museum is also home to an outstanding collection of Derby Porcelain, displays of local archaeology, natural history, and military history.  Students found the displays very interesting and prompted ideas for their studies back at the PRU.  The curator of artefacts invited the students ‘back stage’ at a development focussing upon the art from around the world, allowing students and staff alike to handle artefacts such as a hand piano and seed shaker (rattle).  The new development will open to staff in May 2018.  A great time was had by all, and I’m sure the PRU will return!