We’re taking art and creativity on the road, across the UK.
From May 2024 to May 2025, our travelling art studio programme, Art Road Trip, is visiting 18 places across the UK.
We’re going to be working with 24 local arts organisations to create community-led arts projects. In each location, we’re designing events for people with the least access to creative opportunities and the arts.
Over the year, our 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.
Where is the Art Road Trip now?
Until Sunday 28 July, we're in Gloucestershire, working together with our partner, Create Gloucestershire, for a two-week creative residency. We've teamed up with community organisations from across the county, including Cam & Dursley Creatives, Wyldwood Arts, GAS Projects, The Venture: White City, and Culture Matson. We invite schools and local families to join our creative, fun, and free workshops that explore and experiment with the concept of creativity and making. Families and young people can engage with the National Gallery’s paintings in surprising and playful ways.
In the first week, we're working with Cam & Dursley Creatives and Wyldwood Arts in local schools across Dursley and the Forest of Dean area. The workshops we've designed together introduce students to paintings in the National Gallery, giving them the chance to try out new materials and techniques in a specially created playful and fun space where students can explore ideas and materials, encouraging teachers to think and work outside the box as well.
As the summer holidays begin, we're hosting a series of drop-in, hands-on creative activities for Gloucestershire families and communities who might not yet be familiar with the Gallery's paintings. Over three days and three locations, our mobile studio will unfold, presenting paintings in unexpected and imaginative ways.
For the final weekend, join us at the GAWP! Weekender on Saturday and Sunday, 27 and 28 July. We're transforming King’s Square in Gloucester into a vibrant installation of landscape and colour, created by local community groups. This event is open to everyone, it'll be a day of fun and festivity for all to enjoy.
The Create Gloucestershire community is made up of people in Gloucestershire who believe arts and culture make their communities better, more creative and equal. Art Road Trip has connected people and places with the National Gallery Collection and connected the Gallery with local creative and cultural communities. To find out more about Create Gloucestershire and the local organisation is supports visit their website.
