Essential Art Blog

Essentially Art: Reviewing The Turner Prize
Head of History of Art, Ms. Hannah Kroes, invites Lower Sixth Art students to select one exhibit from this year’s Turner Prize and present their case for why it deserved to win.
Author: chloe
Inspired by the Impressionists
Harrodian Art History students tell us about the paintings that inspired them at the National Gallery's After Impressionism exhibition. Lower Sixth...
Author: Hannah Kroes
Essential Art: Courtauld Classics
Harrodian’s Art History A Level students were captivated by their trip to the Courtauld collection earlier this month.
Author: Hannah Kroes
Essential Art Blog: Christmas Gallery Tour
Join our Art History Sixth Formers on their whistle-stop pre-Christmas gallery tour and read their reviews of the best current London exhibitions
Author: Hannah Kroes
Essential Art Blog: Art for All Ages
Whether it’s trips to exhibitions and galleries, visits to the school by practising artists or diverse challenges and competitions, Art Department...
Author: Hannah Kroes
Essential Art Blog: A Meeting of Minds
History of Art student, Dasha, shares her award-winning essay about a painting by artist and member of the Bloomsbury Group, Vanessa Bell. Reviewing the portrait, she finds a pair of like-minded individuals who share a deep connection, contrary to the opinion of many art critics of the time who often branded them elitist individuals.
Author: Hannah Kroes
Essential Art Blog: More than Skin Deep
History of Art students enjoyed the beauty of the ‘Pre-Raphaelite Sisters’ exhibition but wondered if the curators could have dug deeper into the way these influential women were portrayed
Author: Hannah Kroes
Essential Art Blog: Gardens of Glass
A Level History of Art students visited Kew Gardens to see Dale Chihuly's dazzling blown glass flowers and plants
Author: Hannah Kroes
Essential Art Blog: Drawn from Life
From September to February, every term time on Thursdays, at 5 pm, Harrodian’s 15 Lower Sixth art students gather in the Senior Art studio, get out...
Author: Roz Edenbrow
Essential Art Blog: Something for Everyone
Harrodian Sixth Formers studying Art, Art History and Design thoroughly enjoyed the diversity of the Frieze Art Fair
Author: Hannah Kroes