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AGS CELEBRATE DIFFERENCE
Back in January, we hosted acclaimed contemporary artist, Corbin Shaw to AGS and invited a group of Year 8 boys to participate in an art workshop, working with fabric to produce a collective tapestry that represents their views on masculinity today.
On Thursday 4th May the collective tapestry was displayed at a multi-media exhibition in London, at Flannels’ flagship department store on Oxford Street, where the boys’ flags were projected onto large interactive screens in a spectacular setting. The exhibition ran until 9pm and we were delighted to be personally invited to enjoy the spectacle.
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This workshop was linked to our School research project focusing on helping boys to cultivate healthy masculinity. The research was approved by the Headmaster, Mark Sturgeon and later contributed to the International Boys’ Schools Coalition Action Research Programme, reaching educators around the world.
For the Love of the Lads
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On the day, we walked down to the Aylesbury train station and took a scenic train to London, where we passed beautiful countrysides and large urban areas, with hundreds of different things to spot go by and we took the train. For the love of lads is a project Corbin Shaw had been working on to spread the message of positive masculinity and personally, I found the project as a fun and enjoyable way to express ourselves and help spread the important message. As we got to the art gallery, we were able to see our own work displayed on LED boards for the public eye, which is just quite astounding, knowing that someone has been able to see the work that our school has done.
My first impression of the gallery was that it was a large space, which used a way of displaying our art that I found quite good, as it used LED boards to engulf the viewers in the art, helping to express the idea of expressing oneself and not to hide away, but to accept. The actual art however was the centrepiece, being displayed in the centre of the room in a glass case, which gives the art a sense of importance and just adds to spreading the message of positive masculinity.
By Tharuga Patjirajage, 8Pa
