WAYS OF SEEING 2025
- Region: London
- Type: Conference
- Cost: Ticketed
Ways of Seeing, the Association for Art History’s annual one-day conference for A-Level students and teachers takes place at The National Gallery on Saturday 22 November, 2025. The event is unique in its focus of bringing together students and teachers of History of Art and Art, Craft and Design.
- Date: Saturday 22 November
- Location: The National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing Theatre
- Registration from 10.15am
- Start time: 11am
- Close: 3:30pm
PROGRAMME & TICKETS
PROGRAMME
MORNING
10.15 – 10.45 Registration, Sainsbury Wing Lecture Theatre
11.00 – 11.15 Welcome and Introduction
Gregory Perry, CEO, AAH
Christina Bradstreet, Head of Programmes, AAH
11.15 – 11.30 Art World Dissidents and their Alternative Identities
Nicola McCartney, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Central Saint Martins.
11.15 – 11.30 The man who sold to the world: Ruben’s ‘Turkish Portrait’ of the Flemish merchant Nicholas de Respaigne (Hessen Kassel Heritage)
Adam Sammut, Honorary Visiting Fellow, Department of History of Art, University of York
11.45 – 12.00 Seeing Whiteness in Early Modern Portraiture
Janet Couloute, Independent Art Historian
12.00 – 12.15 Martha Tovey-Keane, Rosa Bonheur’s The Horse Fair
Articulation Prize, Former student at Rugby Free School now reading Psychology at University of Reading
12.15 – 12.30 Q&A
12.30 – 12.40 Introductions from university students
12.40 – 13.40 Lunch and Studying Art History at University
The Social Space in the Roden Centre for Creative Learning is available for eating packed lunches. Please note the room is open to the public.
Meet undergraduates from Birkbeck College, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of Brighton, University of Exeter, University of Glasgow and University of Sussex
13.40 – 13.45 Welcome back
13:45-14.40
Two sessions happening at the same time.
Teacher’s CPD session
Pearson Edexcel A level History of Art: Meeting the Assessment Objectives in Paper 2
Clore Art Studio, Roden Centre for Creative Learning
Workshop delving into the requirements of Paper 2, including an exploration of practical methods to help student structure responses to the exam question as well as strategies for guiding students to meet the assessment objectives effectively under timed conditions.
Students: Gallery based, self-led exploration
Students explore examples of the depiction and influence of nature and identity using a self-led activity.
14.45 – 15:00 Video Competition for Undergraduates
15:00 – 15:30 Gavin Turn in conversation.
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.