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Full of ideas from our Associate Artists for activities you can do with your students whilst visiting the exhibitions or afterwards.
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This resource offers ideas for discussion and activity for primary school teachers and students which can be printed or stuck in sketchbooks before visiting.
A document of ideas, information and stories about the gallery and art works for teachers and group leaders working with students in the gallery spaces.
We are currently developing a series of interactive online galleries to enable schools and student groups to explore our collections remotely.
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A single page packed full of ideas from Annie Brundrit about objects in the collection with multiple identities, including our Ibeji twin and several Janus figures.
A collage of images, and contextual information about this mask gathered from a variety of online sources.
Create an environment for an animal in the gallery to escape into, using Augmented Reality technology.
A worksheet for pupils to explore art from the Northwest Coast of North America in the Sainsbury Centre collection. FREE to download, or book kits with all the materials from £2 per pupil.
Have you noticed how many birds there are in the galleries? Find them all and draw them in this tree.
Explore the lines, angles and shapes as you walk around the Sainsbury Centre building. View the architecture from fresh viewpoints and create your own response through drawing, photography and printmaking.
An online drawing class in which artists Anna Brass and Paul Patrick Fenner introduce you to the Sainsbury Centre building and challenge you to think about buildings and bodies imaginatively.
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This resource offers drawing and looking prompts for teachers and students to stick in sketchbooks.
Take a look at Henry Moore’s practice with associate artist Ian Brownlie. Explore Moore’s use of bones, stones, and shells; the relationship of his work to the landscape; and the inspiration he drew from Mexico and Norfolk.
This pack uses the idea of art as a window on the world to suggest new strategies for learning and developing ideas through object based work. Aimed at teachers working with KS2 pupils.
Ian Brownlie shares a collage of thoughts, ideas, questions, and activities in response to Monument to the Third International. Suitable for KS3+ students.
Discussion and activity ideas for secondary school or FE teachers and students which can be printed or stuck in sketchbooks.
How many birds have you seen or heard today? How might they inspire you to make some artwork? Start from home, then head out into your surrounding area and our Sculpture Park, before exploring our physical or online galleries.
Visiting the Sculpture Park? Rose Feather has designed this colourful map packed with information and ideas to help you make the most of our wonderful outdoor space.
This bumper teachers’ pack developed with Rose Feather offers activities and ideas for expanding your visit or project on Egypt, to include discussion of contemporary issues.
Fill this pocket booklet with playful drawings to create a personal map of the Sainsbury Centre, whatever your age or stage. Hannelore Smith shares some ideas for creative ways to explore the galleries.
Hannelore Smith invites KS4+ students to consider how the Sainsbury Centre’s collections could be relevant to their studies. Follow the ideas, questions and activities to discover different ways to think about the objects.
Use associate artist Hannelore Smith’s PAPER resources to make tactile responses to the objects in our collections. Scrunch, Pleat and Fold whilst you are in the galleries as well as look, think, draw and photograph.
Rip up, reassemble and mess around with everyday images to express your own ideas. Ian Brownlie introduces you to subversive art techniques from Dada to punk.
Anna Brass suggests ideas for using mirrors to explore the galleries. Book kits with everything you need from £2 per student.
Kate Munro shares ideas for working with card, plaster, and clay in response to the Whistling Bird Bottle, as well as questions and ideas to guide your looking, thinking, and further exploration.
Kate Munro suggests some line drawing and weaving activities in response to Head of an Oba, as well as questions and ideas to guide your looking, thinking, and further exploration.
Kate Munro suggests some tonal drawing and stocking-stuffing activities in response to Lucie Rie’s Bottle, as well as questions and ideas to guide your looking, thinking, and further exploration.
Kate Munro shares some collage ideas and tips for carving soap, inspired by the Bowl with Legs, as well as questions and ideas to guide your looking, thinking, and further exploration.
Kate Munro shares some ideas for tonal and textured drawing, and card construction techniques inspired by the Spade form, as well as questions and ideas to guide your looking, thinking, and further exploration.
Kate Munro shares some ideas for working with plaster and clay and shows how to make press-prints inspired by the Turtle Shaped Bottle.
Kate Munro shares some activities inspired by the silhouette and the rotational symmetry of the Pagoda, as well as questions and ideas to guide your looking, thinking, and further exploration.
Kate Munro demonstrates cord-marking a design in clay and suggests building some coil pots inspired by the Flame-Style Bowl, as well as questions and ideas to guide your looking, thinking, and further exploration.
Kate Munro shares some ideas for exploring the translucency and the form of the Goblet with Lugs, as well as questions and ideas to guide your looking, thinking, and further exploration.
Whilst visiting the galleries, try borrowing some of our VESSELS card decks, designed by artist Rachel Kurdynowska.
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Kate Munro shares some thoughts and ideas for activities, inspired by this Gaming Piece from the Arctic.
Kate Munro shares some thoughts and ideas for activities, inspired by this Female Figure from the Arctic.
Kate Munro shares some thoughts and ideas for activities, inspired by these Snow Goggles from the Arctic.
Ideas to make something 3D inspired by the approach of indigenous people of the Arctic, and in response to The Stuff of Life | The Life of Stuff. Book kits with all the materials from £2 per pupil.
