As part of Art UK’s latest take on the Masterpieces in Schools initiative, the Arts Council Collection loaned Phillip King’s Point X to Pinders Primary School in Wakefield. The ACC were the first collection in the project to loan a sculpture for the day.
The project will see 70,000 school children from 125 schools the length and breadth of the UK experience world class works of art in their classrooms as part of the largest ever sculpture project undertaken in Britain.
Andrew Ellis, Art UK Director, said;
“Masterpieces in Schools was such a huge success back in 2013, so obviously we wanted to do something similar again, but this time give even more children the opportunity to interact with great art. Our sculpture in school’s initiative will be five times bigger – and hopefully even more rewarding – than what we achieved last time round.”
The first loan took place this week to Pinders Primary School in Wakefield. In early June, 30 pupils from Year 3 visited the Arts Council Collection Sculpture Centre at Longside, which is located within the grounds of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. After seeing the collection and talking to staff, together they picked Phillip King’s 1965 sculpture Point X to be the one to visit their school.