Articulation

The ARTiculation programme began in 2006, established by Madeleine Bessborough, Director of New Art Centre and Lucy Salisbury, then Head of the Roche Court Educational Trust in partnership with the Head of History of Art at Winchester College, Laurence Wolff.

Originally the competition was conceived as a tribute to the Art Historian Kenneth Clark, in honour of his commitment to the study and promotion of the arts. In 2006 several local schools were invited to Roche Court to deliver their ARTiculation presentations to an audience of their peers and an adjudicator. Three years later ARTiculation partnered with the University of Cambridge and it became a national competition, which involves hundreds of students each year.

Now run by The National Gallery, the programme works in partnership with many galleries and museums in the UK and Ireland to deliver an offer for GCSE and A-Level students, also supporting university undergraduates and alumni to develop their careers in art.