Gallery trip for Black History Month

On the 16th of September, our year 12 and year 13 A Level classes went to the Southbank to visit “In the Black Fantastic” at the Hayward Gallery. It was incredibly inspiring as it made us think about concepts like race and gender on a much deeper level than we are used to. Each artist we saw gave us a new thing to think about and that’s what made it so interesting. Ellen Gallagher explores new myths and stories throughout history, with giant watercolour paintings, whilst Lina Iris Viktor creates beautiful images using powerful colours like Majorelle blue, black, white, red and gold – even using real gold. As well as all of the different and amazing artists, the whole exhibition tied in together as it all followed the over-arching theme of exploring race and what it means to be black.