The Gerald Moore Gallery offers free art workshops and exhibition tours to local State Primary and Secondary Schools inspired by our exhibitions. For other schools, we charge a nomimal fee to cover staff time and materials. Workshops can be linked to any particular art skill or theme that your students are exploring and can be tailored to their needs.
Primary Schools
We welcome younger students to our gallery and have run workshops for students as young as 7. Gallery tours and activities can be tailored for younger students and their abilities. We require schools to have adequate staff support to manage the students during the visits and workshops.
Secondary Schools
More capable students can be enagged in challenging workshops and get introduced to new methods and materials. Targeted year groups are Year 9 to Year 13. We offer single gallery visit plus a workshop (1 - 2 hours) or a package of 2 to 3 workshops plus a gallery tour. Additonally we can host life-drawing sessions for older students with an experience life model and drawing instructor. For more information, please download a PDF leaflet from the link below.
Work Experience Placements
We offer short work placements for keen and inquisitive students - aged 14 to 17 - from secondary schools in South East London. These placements will offer insights into the operation of a contemporary art gallery and arts education facility, providing a rewarding and enriching experience that can include exhibition production and curating, preparing and assisting creative workshops, managing the gallery resources and online presence. For more information, please click on the link below.
Projects
From 2023 to 2024, the Gerald Moore Gallery ran 36 creative and educational workshops during school time and after-school at two local state primary schools in Mottingham (South East London), Elmstead Wood Primary School and St. Vincet's Catholic Primary School. The project titled 'Art and Creativity in School' brought artists into the schools to work with students in Year 2 to Year 6 and the project was generously supported by Mottingham Big Local Refocused. We are very greateful for their support and for the support from our school partners.
We are very proud of our contribution to the local community - through its free learning programme many primary and senior school children experience art workshops within the gallery every year and learn new art skills centred around our exhibitions.
If you are interested and would like to have more information, please email info@geraldmooregallery.org or call 02088570448.
Designing and illustrating graphic book workshop at Elmstead Wood Primary School under the 'Art and creativity in school' project in 2024.
