Surrealism: Creative Collage
1hr 50min artist-led workshop for KS1 - KS4
Inspired by our special exhibition Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes students will explore Surrealism and create imaginative creatures and landscapes using collage and printmaking techniques.
Session overview
During this workshop students will explore Surrealism in our exciting new exhibition Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes. Working with local artist Rachel Sim, they will discover the strange and curious landscapes that surrealist artists have created over the last 100 years, including works by Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Wael Shawky and Leonora Carrington.
Inspired by the atmosphere created in the surreal landscapes, students will make their own mini fold out landscapes. They’ll then create playful surreal creatures and animals using shapes, forms and colours they can see in the artworks.
In the studios pupils will use vocab words to inspire surreal landscape collages. Laying shapes, texture and colour they’ll then add details using simple printmaking techniques to create strange worlds.
Take back to school
Students will each create their own individual mini-landscape drawings, surreal creatures and collaged landscapes.
“The children had a wonderful time! The workshop was so full of wonderful activities to help the pupils explore surrealism. It’s also helped me to consider our art curriculum and how to allow the children to be more free and creative in their choices. We loved it, thank you!” Sandal Magna Community Academy
Cost
£185, 10% discount for Wakefield district schools
Book this workshop
This special workshop is only available on the following dates in 2025:
Wed 29 January
Fri 28 February
Wed 05 March
Fri 07 March
Wed 19 March
Fri 21 March
Fri 28 March
Wed 02 April
Fri 04 April
Learning outcomes and curriculum links
This workshop inspires and challenges pupils to experiment with new artistic processes and create their own works of art. They are encouraged to think critically about the art they experience in the galleries, developing their visual language.
Primary
Art and Design
- Produce creative work exploring their ideas and recording their experiences in the galleries.
- Experiment with different types of art and materials, including drawing techniques and collage and printmaking.
- Use drawing techniques to develop and share their ideas.
- Learn about great artists, their importance in history, and make links to their own work.
English
- Develop vocabulary and visual literacy in response to the artworks they see.
- Articulate opinions on the artworks and convey ideas confidently.
- Participate in collaborative conversations and use discussion in order to learn, elaborating and explaining their understanding and ideas about the artworks and their own creative work.
Secondary
Art and Design
- Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences in the galleries
- Use a range of techniques and media to record their observations and increase their proficiency in the handling of different materials.
- Evaluate and analyse creative works, using the language of art. Develop critical thinking to analyse their own artwork and that of others.
English
- Develop new specialist vocabulary and visual literacy in response to the artworks.
- Use discussion in order to learn; elaborating and explaining clearly their understanding and ideas about the artworks and their own creative work.
- Listening to and building on the contributions of others, asking questions to clarify and inform.
