Every year, the Grundy Art Gallery works with local school children to produce an ambitious and exciting exhibition of new work. For 2025, the Annual Schools’ Exhibition is titled, ‘Art Movement’ and focuses on how visiting an art gallery and viewing artworks can make us feel.
In November and December 2024 over 200 pupils from St John’s Primary and Holy Family Catholic Primary visited the Grundy to experience our autumn exhibition programme which featured drawings, animations and large scale video projections that variously explored the idea of ‘stimming’. Described as the action of repeating physical movements, words or sounds, ‘stimming’ as a behaviour, is common to most of at some degree or another, but it is especially prevalent in those who are neuro-diverse who use stimming to self-regulate emotions.
Responding to a brief to draw how the artworks and exhibitions made them feel – our 2024/2025 schoolchildren have produced a gallery full of colourful, expressive, gestural artworks that energetically explode off the page.