At the end of last year Floga combined forces with the Icarus Trust, a charity which offers support to families affected by addiction and mental health issues. Initially, the charity targeted home life; supporting the children, wives, husbands, etc. who needed it. However, more recently, the Icarus Trust began outreach within schools - providing workshops [...]
Over the past few weeks, I have experienced my first real trough of self-employment. This is not uncommon (it is incredibly regular in fact), and for some reason or other, I have been incredibly lucky that it has taken me around 6 months to hit my first low. However, due to things such as Instagram [...]
The Ashmolean has managed to pull a real crowd pleaser out of the bag with its most recent exhibition Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France. Bringing together a rich collection of Modernist works ranging from 1800 to the mid-twentieth century, the exhibition shows and explains the rise of one of the most famous and [...]
Explaining why I am combining two beautiful subjects - Art History and Yoga...
Today it has been confirmed that by 2018, Art History A Level will be dropped by AQA following on from Michael Gove's curriculum changes. The reasoning behind this seems to alternate between Art History being either 'too soft' or 'too complex' for students to achieve good results. Neither holds a particularly solid answer. Art History, for [...]
