The Real Art Roadshow's 'The Black Collection' comes to Scots College
The Real Art Roadshow is New Zealand’s only travelling art gallery designed to give New Zealand school students the chance to experience Real Art, up close and personal. The exhibition is housed in two huge trucks – the Silver Collection, and the Black Collection. The Black Collection is coming to Scots 21 – 22 June and the Black Truck will be parked beside ‘Digger’s’ for those two days.
Each truck literally unfolds to form a couple of 78 square metre mobile art galleries. Each displays over 60 pieces of original art by a cross-section of well known and emerging New Zealand artists, including Tony de Lautour, Dick Frizzell, Simon Ogden, Gretchen Albrecht, Pat Hanly, Don Driver and Gordon Walters. Together they form a fascinating and insightful collection of post 1945 New Zealand visual art.
The Real Art Roadshow is the brainchild of Fiona Campbell, Rob McLeod and Gerald Barnett, three visionary art curators who had the idea of bringing real art to secondary school students in geographically isolated locations throughout New Zealand.
From a school’s point of view all the art works neatly dovetail into the current art curriculum, teaching resources are provided ahead of time and teachers are free to structure their lessons to best fit their students. Fiona Campbell says ‘It’s not just about art – it’s about helping students broaden their creativity, which is fundamental to helping these young people become well-rounded adults’.
Fiona Campbell has a very close relationship with Scots as her two brothers, Lee and Scott, are Old Boys. She is looking forward to bringing this very special collection to the College.
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