WAYS OF SEEING 2024
Ways of Seeing, the Association for Art History’s annual one-day conference for A-Level students and teachers takes place at Tate Modern on Saturday 23 November, 2024. The event is unique in its focus of bringing together students and teachers of History of Art and Art, Craft and Design.
For more than fifteen years Ways of Seeing has covered many different topics including propaganda, patronage, the body, sculpture, gender, nationality and, most recently, nature. The theme for this autumn will be Nature and Identity.
- Date: Saturday 23 November
- Location: Tate Modern
- Registration: 10.15am
- Start time: 11am
- Close: 3:30pm
PROGRAMME & TICKETS
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The day includes talks, discussions and workshops on ways of thinking about art in relation to a specific theme, this year taking nature in art and architecture as the central topic of the conference.
Ways of Seeing is generously supported by The Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars.
PROGRAMME
MORNING
10.15 – 10.45 Registration, Starr Cinema
11.00 – 11.10 Welcome and Introduction
11.10 – 11.30 Out of the Cage: Isabel Rawsthorne, Carol Jacobi, Curator of British Art, 1850-1915, Tate Britain
11.30 –11.50 Queer Ecologies, Edwin Coomasaru, Independent Art Historian.
11.50 – 12.10 Nature and Artifice in Van Dyck’s William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh, Melissa Baksh, London-based art historian, curator, writer and educator
12.10 – 12.30 Q&A
LUNCH
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch and Studying Art History at University
McAulay Lunch Room in the Clore Hub, available. Here you can eat your own packed lunches and meet undergraduates from the universities of Brighton, Liverpool John Moores, Birkbeck, University of London, Sussex and York, as well as a former Peggy Guggenheim intern
AFTERNOON
13.30 – 13.35 Welcome back
13.35 – 14.30 Teacher’s CPD session
Pearson Edexcel A level History of Art: Tackling Visual Analysis in Paper 1
Facilitated by Ali Hollingworth on behalf of Pearson Edexcel
Teachers will explore how to approach Section A of Paper 1, Visual Analysis, discussing effective responses and common mistakes using candidate responses from the most recent exam series.
Students: Gallery based, self-led exploration
Students explore examples of the depiction and influence of nature and identity using a self-led activity.
14.30 – 14.45 Articulation Prize Winner
14.45 – 15.20 Polly Morgan in conversation with Marine Tanguy
15.20 – 15.30 Q&A
15.30 Close
PLEASE NOTE
This event is for A-Level students and their school teachers only. Adults must bring proof of their school teacher status as we reserve the right not to admit adults who are unable to provide this. Please email christina@forarthistory.org.uk if you have questions on this.