Michelangelo’s David will be high on the ‘must do list’ for three King’s Sixth Form art students who have been selected for a Cheshire Education Gifted and Talented trip to Tuscany.
Final year students Wangui, Olivia and Gemma will spend this coming half-term holiday in the hills above Florence as part of a county-wide project to introduce our most creative young minds to the great art of Western civilisation. The fine artists and architectural students will visit all the great galleries and cathedrals in Florence, Sienna and San Gimignano, while completing their own practical projects.
Wangui, who wants to study Architecture at
Gemma, who wants to take an Art Foundation Course and focus on product design, added: “I am really looking forward to drawing some of the great landscapes. It will be wonderful to be in
Olivia is looking forward to a project to design a costume that fuses Marie Antoinette haute couture with latter-day punk. “I want to study Textile Design at Manchester and as well as seeing Tuscany that is wonderful project.”
King’s Head of Art Debbie Inman said: “It is a chance in a lifetime to visit one of the epicentres of Western civilisation and it is the sort of trip that can have a real life changing influence, showing young men and women all the possibilities of a career in the creative arts.”
Pictured with one of their art projects are from left to right Wangui, Olivia and Gemma.
