Community Groups
As part of our charity mission, Saatchi Gallery Learning works alongside local Community Groups & Organisations across London to engage diverse audiences with contemporary art and culture through participatory projects, workshops, and exhibitions. Groups also have the opportunity to exhibit their workshop artworks in our onsite Learning Gallery.
Community Groups need to be booked in advance. Please fill out this form & wait for our confirmation email. If you require a risk assessment for your visit please click here.
If you would like to discuss your Community Group visit over the phone please call +44 (0)20 7811 3087. Our schools phone line is moderated intermittently Monday-Friday 10AM – 5PM. Please have the following ready when you call:
- Range of dates for your visit
- Community Group address, telephone number and email address
- Group size and average age of group (if relevant)
We love hearing from you! Please share your feedback and photos by tagging @saatchigallery_learning on Instagram or emailing the Learning team.
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Community Groups Offsite Workshops
Saatchi Gallery proudly offers offsite workshops run by our experienced art educators. We explore contemporary art through playful accessible activities and draw inspiration from art pieces that have been displayed at Saatchi Gallery by artists from all over the world. Participants get the chance to make their own artwork inspired by our recent and ongoing exhibitions.
Community Group Tours & Workshops
Free entry for students & community groups, including free workshops & tours.
Tours: Groups are accompanied by a member of our dedicated Learning team who will provide unique insights and facts into the exhibition and featured artefacts to encourage group discussion and engagement.
Workshops: exhibition-themed workshops including collage, magazine cover designing, figurative drawing, photography, poetry writing and sculpture making.
LEARNING EXHIBITIONS
Saatchi Learning Gallery
Located on the top floor of the Saatchi Gallery, we are proud to exhibit education and community groups’ artworks to the public. If your group would like to get involved in the learning programme and exhibit their artwork please get in touch.
Online Learning Gallery
Newly launched online Learning Gallery to exhibit artwork created by education and community groups’ in response to the Gallery’s exhibitions.
Our Saatchi Learning Instagram Gallery exhibit artworks created by education and community groups’ in response to the Gallery’s exhibitions.
If you would like your work showcased on our Saatchi Learning Instagram account – please contact our Learning Team.
PAST
Season of Sculpture Tours and Workshops
As part of our charitable mission, Saatchi Gallery is proud to offer complimentary interactive workshops for educational and community groups. With the opening of If Not Now, When? and Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Boundless, the learning team are launching some new workshops which will deepen the participants’ understanding of the exhibitions through creative practice! These workshops are designed to be easily adapted to suit groups of all ages and abilities – the aim is to have fun and be creative, not to make copies or hyper realistic representations.
These workshops will use a range of materials and media such as clay, wire, paper mâché, polystyrene carving, collage and décollage to create sculptural works inspired by artists such as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Yves Klein, César and Marcel Duchamp for the Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Boundless workshops, and Bridget Heriz, Christine Kowal-Post, Shirley Cameron, Pamela Storey, Carol Farrow and Michele Howarth for the If Not Now, When workshops!
All tours and workshops are subject to availability and priority goes to those from low income or disadvantaged groups.
Vision & Virtuosity by Tiffany & Co.
10 June – 19 August 2022
Available: Free entrance for learners/community groups, workshops, tours.
Tours: Groups are accompanied by a member of our Learning team who will provide unique insights and facts into the exhibition and featured artefacts to encourage group discussion and engagement.
Workshops: exhibition themed workshops including designing shop windows; Tiffany lamp inspired paper sculpture making; Tiffany love room inspired paper flower making; and jewellery design inspired experimental sketching.
Get involved!
Please send completed booking form to [email protected]
Exhibition: RHS Botanical Art & Photography Show 2022 (9 – 29 April 2022, Galleries 1 – 3)
Available: Free entrance for learners/community groups, workshops, tours
The Gallery Learning department led tours teach participants fun facts about the artists and their process and encourage discussions about the exhibition, giving participants the opportunity to share their opinion.
Participants are then given the opportunity to use our on-site learning studio to participate in group workshops in response to exhibition themes. They will get to use the exhibition as a jumping off point to invent their own fantasy plants collaboratively with other participants. They will combine observational drawing and collage, and learn scientific facts about plants, their functions, and cultural significance.
Get involved!
Please send completed booking form to [email protected]
Exhibition: AMERICA IN CRISIS (21 January – 3 April 2022, Galleries 1-3)
Available: Free entrance for learners/community groups, workshops, tours
Gallery Learning department led tours encourage discussions about the exhibition and explore key exhibition themes including image consumption, civil rights, protest and climate change from a historic and contemporary perspective.
Participants are then given the opportunity to use our on-site learning studio to participate in group workshops in response to exhibition themes. Students will reimagine exhibition photographs through hands-on book making and collage.