Artist's print sale aims to fund 'gamechanging' project for art in school
The Guardian|February 12, 2024
Sir Frank Bowling, one of Britain's most celebrated abstract painters, is selling prints of his work to help fund art supplies for 100 primary schools in the UK.
Lanre Bakare
Artist's print sale aims to fund 'gamechanging' project for art in school

It is part of a project that he hopes will be a "gamechanger" in art education by making state school students realise art is not off limits.

Proceeds from the sale of 100 signed prints will fund "art packages", which include canvas, paint and a six-lesson curriculum that could give about 30,000 primary school children an "alternative" introduction to art.

Art education in state schools is under threat, with spending per pupil in England falling by nearly 10% in real terms since 2009 and many institutions having to cut back on arts provision including fine art.

Many teachers have criticised the government's approach to arts education, particularly the decision to introduce the English baccalaureate, which excludes all arts subjects while private schools are free to focus on them.

A study by the Fabian Society in 2019 found that 68% of primary school teachers in England felt there was less arts education then than in 2010, with just under half believing the quality had decreased.

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