School Prints - Year 4

For the fourth edition of The Hepworth Wakefield's School Prints project, there is a new focus on supporting the teaching of black histories across the curriculum in local schools. The artists who have generously created a new print for the project are: Hurvin Anderson (b. 1965, Birmingham); Alvaro Barrington (b. 1983 Caracas, Venezuela); Sir Frank Bowling OBE, RA (b. 1934, Bartica, Essequibo, British Guiana); Lubaina Himid CBE (b. 1954, Zanzibar, Tanzania); Claudette Johnson (b. 1959, Manchester); Yinka Shonibare CBE (b. 1962, London).
Engagement work with local schools took place over the Summer Term 2023 at Outwood Primary Academy Park Hill, Pinders Primary School, St Mary’s CE Primary School and St Austin’s Catholic Primary School in Wakefield.
Nearly 200 pupils worked with artists during special workshops in school and during visits to The Hepworth Wakefield to discover more about the School Prints and engage with themes within the artworks. Taking inspiration from the School Prints, pupils created individual and large-scale collaborative prints, experimenting with lots of different types of printmaking including linocut, collagraph and monoprint.