Bob and Roberta Smith step up their fightback against the government's “attack on the creative arts” with a new movie being launched to coincide with the publication of this year’s GCSEs.
Calling all parents and 14 to 16 year olds: all schools should be art schools! Shout it loud and proud! On Thursday, the GCSE results are released, and this, by no coincidence, is the same day that my new film will screen in cinemas and galleries across the country.
Art Party, which I have made with the film-maker Tim Newton, is a call-to-arms to protect the future of the creative arts in this country; a future which is being jeopardised by the current government, as it does its best to minimise arts subjects (art, music, drama, dance and design) in the school curriculum.
The title of the film refers to the non-political party that I set up last year with other artists to protest against the Tories’ philistinism. Part documentary, part road movie and part political fantasy, it combines footage of our first Art Party conference, which saw Britain’s leading artists and educators gather in Scarborough last November, with a fictional plot involving are villainous conference attendee called Michael Grove... Read more in the Independent
Calling all parents and 14 to 16 year olds: all schools should be art schools! Shout it loud and proud! On Thursday, the GCSE results are released, and this, by no coincidence, is the same day that my new film will screen in cinemas and galleries across the country.
Art Party, which I have made with the film-maker Tim Newton, is a call-to-arms to protect the future of the creative arts in this country; a future which is being jeopardised by the current government, as it does its best to minimise arts subjects (art, music, drama, dance and design) in the school curriculum.
The title of the film refers to the non-political party that I set up last year with other artists to protest against the Tories’ philistinism. Part documentary, part road movie and part political fantasy, it combines footage of our first Art Party conference, which saw Britain’s leading artists and educators gather in Scarborough last November, with a fictional plot involving are villainous conference attendee called Michael Grove... Read more in the Independent