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BTEC London and

Edinburgh Trip 2019
Art

Over the past few days a group of BTEC Art visited and straightaway loved the city. On our
and Photography pupils took part in a trip first proper day in the city we visited the Modern
traveling to London and Edinburgh. On day Art museums and had a walk through some of
one we travelled from Castle Cary to London the town which were very aesthetically please
Paddington where we then went to our hotel and beautiful to take photos. In the evening the
to get ready to go to the Pitzhanger Gallery group went out to do some bowling and gave
and Manor where we had tickets to see Anish us a chance to see the competitive side of each
Kapoor sculpture exhibition. The gallery had other which was great fun. On our final day of
a wide range of art on show and made for the trip we visited the National Portrait Gallery
some great photos, especially in the reflection with exhibitions relating to many of the artists
exhibition; we then embarked on a journey to a few of us had studied for inspiration of our
China town where we had a delicious dinner. own work, before heading back to Castle Cary
On day two we then had the opportunity to go where our trip sadly came to an end. The overall
to the Design Museum and look at the Stanley experience was a lot of fun for all the pupils on
Kubrick Exhibition, which was personally my the trip and I would love to go back.
favourite exhibition. We then had some free
time to explore Kensington, before heading Imogen Sheridan, Lower Sixth, Warner.
to see The School of Rock at the Gillian Lynne
Theatre which was an amazing way to finish our
last night in London before getting on the train
to Edinburgh the next morning. Once arriving
in Edinburgh the sun was shining and we were
able to settle into our hotel and go explore the
streets of Edinburgh, this was the first time I had