Students from Levenshulme High School with their work at Manchester Art Gallery. © Manchester Art Gallery
Artworks by seven young female students from Levenshulme High School have gone on display at Manchester Art Gallery alongside works by Frida Kahlo, Lee Miller, Leonora Carrington and other luminaries as part of the gallery’s exhibition Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism.
The 15 year-old students each created a Surreal artwork, inspired by what it is like to be a young woman today as part of a partnership project between the school and the Gallery.
Over the summer term, the group visited the Gallery and worked with artist Amanda McCrann as well as enjoying a number of practical workshops at school. The resulting Teenangels exhibition includes artworks such as a mobile (or dream-catcher) suspended from the ceiling, made up of around 100 eyeballs, and poetry written backwards on a wall that is read through a mirror.
Each of the 15 year-old students created a Surreal artwork. © Manchester Art Gallery
“The students have shown increased confidence, maturity and pride in their exhibited artwork,” said Alice Tasker, art teacher at Levenshulme High School. “They are delighted with the responses from the public and how people are engaging and connecting with their themes. The project has given them real life work related experiences as artists in the art world.”
The work will form part of the students’ coursework for a double award GCSE in Applied Arts, which will be assessed later in the school year.
Angels of Anarchy: Women Artists and Surrealism is at Manchester Art Gallery from 26 September 2009 – 10 January 2010. Tickets cost £6 (£4 concessions, with free entry for under 18s and Manchester Art Gallery Friends). For more information and to book tickets, visit www.angelsofanarchy.org.uk or follow the details below.
