School Prints - Year 2 | The Hepworth Wakefield

School Prints - Year 2

In 2019, The Hepworth Wakefield worked with Kettlethorpe High School and its five feeder primary schools in the neighbourhood of Agbrigg in Wakefield, located very close to the gallery. There had been a clear decline in the taught hours for art across all of the schools. At one of the primary schools, there were no weekly art lessons due to a lack of experience in teaching staff and availability of materials and space. The School Prints project unlocked opportunities for the creative potential of these students and the teaching staff to learn about contemporary art and the benefits of it being taught in the classroom.

In 2019, the drawing donated by Sir Antony Gormley was on display at Cathedral Academy, the Wakefield secondary school that participated in School Prints in 2018, where the teachers and Art Ambassadors will use the drawing as a prompt for projects across the curriculum.

The contemporary prints were on display at The Hepworth Wakefield from 19 January – 2 June 2019 and went on display at Phillips auction house in Berkeley Square, London, 17 – 25 January 2019.

School Prints Year 2

Commissioned Artists

Sir Peter Blake, Games We Used To Play, Things We Used To Do

£600, edition of 40

‘I thought about what was different between when I was at school and schools today, and I remembered the games we used to play in the playground. I hope my print will make children smile and that they become involved in working out the different games, maybe asking their mum and dad about them.’

Francis Upritchard, Surly Baboon

£600, edition of 40

‘Monkeys and baboons are interesting to me because they look and behave a lot like humans, but are not human. The baboon in this print has a facial expression a little bit like my husband’s when he is in a fake bad mood. I guess a baboon in a bad mood might have a similar expression, so I’m not sure if this is really a portrait of my husband, or of a baboon.’

Richard Wentworth, Weights and Measures

£500, edition of 40

‘I only photograph ‘things’, and I only photograph what I encounter. I don’t go hunting. I am not a snooper. Looking and seeing often overlap. If we ‘see’ something, is that an ‘image’? When does imagination enter our internal conversation? How do we share? Who do we want to keep out? I am very interested in the narrow line between public and private. The links and the leaves here are in a mad conversation. Human relationships are often quite like this image – in a state of variable mutual accommodation.’

Fiona Banner, Windsock Storyboard

£500, edition of 40

‘Windsock Storyboard is based on my film Tete à Tête in which two mechanically operated windsocks are the main protagonists in a romantic drama set in a classic English landscape around Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Here, they turn their back on each other in a pivotal moment of confrontation.’