History of Art Visit to RA

On 24 April, a group of DG/Year 12 history of art students travelled to the Royal Academy of Arts in London to see a special exhibition entitled ‘Entangled Pasts, 1768–now’, exploring art, colonialism and change.

The exhibition featured over 100 major contemporary and historical works as part of a conversation about art and its role in shaping narratives of empire, enslavement, resistance, abolition and colonialism.

Students were lucky enough to see artworks on display by leading contemporary British artists of the African, Caribbean and South Asian diasporas, including Sonia Boyce, Frank Bowling and Mohini Chandra, alongside works by artists from the past 250 years including Joshua Reynolds, J.M.W.Turner and John Singleton Copley.

It was a powerful exhibition which students found both enjoyable and educational in equal measures.