Victoria Art Gallery’s Under The Bridge

An adaptable teaching resource from the Victoria Art Gallery to the work of John Nash and create your own canal bridge.

Suitable for: KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5

Subjects: Art & Design

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This activity looks at ‘The Canal Bridge, Sydney Gardens’ by John Nash, painted in 1927.

Use this education pack to explore the artwork of John Nash. Your students can then have a go at making their own pop-up canal bridge.

This educational resource is suited to those in KS1, KS2 & KS3, but can be adapted to suit students of all ages including KS4 & KS5.

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Suitable for: KS1, KS2, KS3, KS4, KS5

Subjects: Art & Design

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About Victoria Art Gallery.

Victoria Art Gallery is the public art museum in Bath. It is run by Bath & North East Somerset Council and houses its collection of paintings, sculpture and decorative arts.

The building was designed in 1897 by John McKean Brydon, and has been designated as a Grade II listed building. The exterior of the building includes a statue of Queen Victoria, by Andrea Carlo Lucchesi, and friezes of classical figures by G. A. Lawson.

The Gallery was named to celebrate Queen Victoria’s sixty years on the throne. It includes over 1,500 decorative arts treasures, including a display of British oil paintings from 17th century to the present day with works by Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Jones Barker and Walter Sickert.

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