Alice Walton & Leanne Turvey
As Senior Learning Curators for Schools and Teachers at Tate Modern and Tate Britain, Alice Walton and Leanne Turvey co-lead a large cross-site team as part of the Learning Department.
Working with artists, teachers and curators, the School’s programme is developed to centre the lived experience, knowledges, curiosities and agency of young people; the principal aim being to support young people to learn about themselves and others through spending time with art.
 | Alice WaltonAlice is an artist, Senior Lecturer and educator who has worked in the field of gallery education for over 25 years, with experience across Alternative Provision & SEND, school, university and gallery settings. |
 | Leanne TurveyLeanne is a writer, curator and educator who has worked in galleries, schools and alternative settings for over 25 years with a background as both a teacher and playworker. |
Alice and Leanne have shared their practice internationally and co-written for various publications including, In Site of Conversation and Can it be About Us?
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Can it be about us?
The question Can it be about us? posed by a student attending a Pupil Referral Unit, challenges us – educators and those working with young people in any context – to consider how we might best support young people to take ownership of their education towards realising their full potential.
In this session we share five anecdotes from recent learning projects at Tate to support participants to consider what spending time with art, artists and ideas offers young people?
This session is appropriate for teachers and educators working across the sector. It will invite an open reflection on how we work, and where art and young people’s engagement with it can offer new ways of being in the world.
We will attempt to share something of the material quality of our work in the gallery and invite participants to share how this connects to their own work/practice.
'What is important is not so much what people see in the gallery or the museum, but what people see after looking at these things, how they confront reality again.'
- Artist Gabriel Orozco
This workshop aims to support participant to:
- Reflect on the affordances of working with art across the curriculum.
- Consider interaction with material as its own learning instruction.
- Hear how a cultural venue is trying to position and account for the value of art in society.
- Enjoy a (tiny) moment of immersive ‘making’ together online.
Materials required:
Please bring a section of tinfoil.