© Richard Eaton

Artist-Led Workshops 

For all Key Stages

Our creative 90-minute workshops are developed and delivered by our core team of Artist Educators. They are designed to broaden students’ engagement with modern and contemporary art by encouraging understanding, looking and critical thinking. Accompanying adults will be asked to participate fully.

Workshop times

Term-time Mondays and Thursdays, 10.30–12.00 or 13.00–14.30

Two workshops in each time slot per day (strict maximum of 16 students per group)

Groups must sign in at the Tate Britain Clore Schools Desk 20 minutes before the start time.

Workshops take place in the galleries. The workshops are organised into four themes: Space, Temporary Practices, Process and Ideas. Group leaders and teachers are required to state their selected theme on booking their workshop. Designed and delivered by a practising artist, the content of each workshop will vary according to their particular approach, ideas and practice. However each workshop will involve encountering art works, looking, questioning and formulating responses.

Within each of the four themes the following may be explored:

Space
Architecture, the building, curating, installation, sculpture, picture plane and social space

Time
Temporary practices, movement, history, memory, the ephemeral, participation and performance

Process
Research, developing ideas, sketchbooks, documentation, trace, recording, collecting and collating

Ideas
Art object as language, meaning, analysis, critical thinking, particular movements in art, cultural and social context.

Tate Britain's School Workshops in 2010-11 are supported by the Ernest Cook Trust, the Henry C. Hoare Charitable Trust, the Mercers' Company, Paul Smith Limited and the Stanley Picker Trust.

Special Educational Needs

For all Key Stages

Workshops for students with physical, cognitive or sensory difficulties or disabilities. These sessions are tailored to accommodate your group’s particular requirements. By engaging in a series of practical and gallery-based activities, students are made to feel welcome, unhurried and inspired. Themes offered are the same as the above artist led workshops. We recommend group sizes of up to ten depending on the needs of the group, supported by appropriate staffing ratios from the visiting organisation. An essential requirement for staff accessing SEN provision is to complete and return a questionnaire before visiting.How to book. An orientation and lunch space is provided.

© Tate The pupils were engaged and their assumptions challenged. They were encouraged and motivated to question what they thought and saw.