Summer Exhibitions

For our AS students who are now back with us beginning their second year we set them a summer task to visit an exhibition! I've spent the morning compiling a list of suggestions (mostly London based) from my students and thought it might be handy to share with you all! I'm looking forward to attending the Royal Academy Summer Show next week as a trip for our students (Kirsty is attending too!) and I'm visiting Part 1 of New Designers. After those I'll need to start planning a few to visit over the summer. I've heard good things about Mona Hatoum at the Tate and am keen to check out Conceptual Art in Britain as well as Exhibitionism - if the Bowie exhibition at the V&A is anything to go by for an art/music collaborative show it's bound to be good!

GRADUATE SHOWS

What: New Designers

Where: Business Design Centre Islington, London

Cost: £12 (in advance) £16 (on the door)

What: Free Range 

Where: Truman Brewery, London

Cost: Free

MUSEUMS & GALLERIES 

What: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 

Where: Royal Academy, London

Cost: £13.50 or £10 with student card

What: Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-1979

Where: Tate Britain, London

Cost: £12 or £10.50 with student card

What: Mona Hatoum 

Where: Tate Modern, London

Cost: £16 or £14 with student card

What: Georgia O'Keeffe

Where: Tate Modern. London

Cost: £19 or £17

What: Francis Bacon

Where: Tate, Liverpool

Cost: £13.20 or £10.45 with student card

What: Serpentine Pavillion and Summer Houses + Alex Katz

Where: Serpentine

Cost: Free

What: BP Portrait Award 

Where: National Portrait Gallery, London

Cost: free

What: Painters' Paintings: From Freud to Van Dyck

Where: National Gallery, London

Cost: £10 or £5 with student card

What: Exhibitionism (The Rolling Stones)

Where: Saatchi Gallery, London

Cost: £20-22 or £18-20 with student card (it's cheaper to go Monday-Thursday + no student rate on Saturdays)

What: Mary Heilman, Keith Sonnier, Edwina Ashton

Where: Whitechapel, London

Cost: free

What: Martin Creed

Where: Hauser & Wirth, Somerset

Cost: Free

What: Felix Gonzalex-Torres

Where: Hauser & Wirth, London

Cost: Free

What: Street Art walking tour 

Where: Shoreditch, London

Cost: £12-15 depending on which tour you take!

Let us know if you visit any of the exhibitions and share what you think with us + we'd love to hear any suggestions for exhibitions further afield!

- Claire ❤