Press Cuttings
Note: The following is a selection of press cuttings relating to the Artworks
Awards in 2004. However, please note that these were published before the decision was taken to review and
re-assess the scheme - see this website's Homepage for further details.
25 August 2004
Art Of A Learning Curve
The Times
By Emma Burns
Tell most Year 6 teachers that as well as getting their 10 and 11 year olds through Key Stage 2 tests - those on which a primary school's league table position depends - they will put them into a national art competition involving lots of work during and after school hours and they would think you're barmy.
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6 July 2004
Students win award for art from the ashes
Sandwell Edition Express & Star
By Iain Robinson
Students at Sandwell School which was devastated by fire are celebrating after picking up a prestigious national art prize. Dartmouth High School, in Great Barr, has won the coveted Artworks Foundation Award for the second year in a row.
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4 July 2004
Kids need art
The Independent on Sunday
By Janet Street-Porter
Vivien Duffield's foundation has given millions to establish education centres in museums. It also sponsors the Artworks Awards, young people's version of the Turner Prize; an exhibition marking these opened last week at the Tate Modern.
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4 July 2004
GRAFFITI GOES FROM STREETS TO THE TATE
Pupils take their spray art to top gallery in London
The Herald
By Stuart Abel
YOUNG artists from Plymouth have taken graffiti off the streets and turned it into modern art on display at one of the country's leading galleries.
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2 July 2004
‘Children's Turner Prize’ hails artists of the future
The Independent
By Jonathan Brown and Harvey McGavin
THE BRILLIANT creativity - and often woeful under-funding - of art education in schools was revealed yesterday at the Artworks awards at the Tate Modern in London.
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