National Gallery Art Roadtrip

200 Years of the National Gallery

We are so proud to be working with the National Gallery as they take art and creativity on the road, across the nation through the Art Roadtrip.

In celebration of The National Gallery’s bicentenary year, the Gallery’s travelling art studio programme, Art Road Trip, will be visiting 18 places across the UK. One stop being Doncaster!

They are going to be working with 24 local arts organisations, including ✨Right Up Our Street✨, to create community-led arts projects.

The mobile art studio will host around two hundred public events and work with thousands of people to bring art and ideas inspired by the National Gallery Collection right to where they live and work.

Keep a look out for an update on the first stage of this project on this webpage and the National Gallery’s platforms for more details coming soon!

Sally Lockey, Director of Right Up Our Street, says, “Right Up Our Street is very excited to be a part of 'Art Road Trip'. As a Creative People and Places project, we consult with the community to ensure that work is relevant and co-curated on a hyper local level. This opportunity means that our communities are able to work hand-in-hand with the National Gallery, influencing how a national, major institution delivers its work within Doncaster. That’s a powerful approach to working, and a strong message to our community. I’m looking forward to seeing the outcome!”

Phase One - Arcade & National Gallery

Phase one of our collaboration with the National Gallery took place at Atlas Primary School on the Balby Bridge Estate and it was a fantastic way to kickstart the new project.

Arcade - a Digital Agency - responsible for the creation of the National Gallery app ‘The Keeper of Paintings’ visited the children of Atlas Primary school and delivered an assembly as well as workshops with two Year 5 classes.

The team at Arcade demonstrated a new app they are developing and the children had the opportunity to experience and use the alpha version of the app first hand and share feedback to help shape the development of the app!

The app allows you to build a character who will then be your creative assistant. You can then take a photograph of your surroundings where the app creates a frame around the image. You then become the artist - allowing you to illustrate whatever you like on your digital canvas.

A big thank you to the children at Atlas Academy for your expertise and the National Gallery for opportunity. We can’t wait to see what’s next for the Art Roadtrip