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A Picture of Britain
e-learning resources 
About the Project |
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Activity: create your own Picture of Britain project
About the Project
The 'Our Picture of Britain' online project paired
together over 250 school classes from different regions across the
country. For a three-week period in June 2005 over 6000 students in these
classes communicated via email, wrote to each other about the regions
they live in, and sent each other information, images and digital
photographs that they created to capture the spirit of the
place where they live.
Classes approached this project in many ways. For
example, some students focused on a local monument, taking photographs
of it and writing accompanying text. Some investigated a local
tale or legend and drew or painted the story. Some went to a well-known
part of their local landscape and made sketches. Some students
interviewed local people and got their interpretations of what it
is like to live in their region. Then students sent their work
to their partner class and received similar work
from them.
Now you can see
the results of this project - we have selected a number of projects
to showcase online. All of them show the creativity, enthusiasm
and excitement of classes all over Britain. These selected projects
represent the work of over 1300 of the participating students.
The 'Our Picture of Britain' project was a part of the larger 'A
Picture of Britain' exhibition at Tate Britain from 15 June to 4 September, 2005. This exhibition divided Britain into six areas (North, South, East, West, Midlands and Highlands) and explored artists' responses to their environment through paintings, sculpture, books, posters and art objects from the past three hundred years.
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View in Tate Collection