Art gcse 2025 Edexcel (gatherings 😔✋)

If you guys didn't know already the theme for art Edexcel 2025 is gatherings.
Can we just brainstorm here because I'm so mad at this theme it's so bad 😭

Hi @one-day-laurel
I remember doing this for my Art GCSE and my theme was 'working', which didn't immediately spark my inspiration but I got there in the end - so you've got this!
'Gathering' - could possibly be social gatherings, crowds of people, crowds of anything really, meetings or events - maybe there's a special event that's personal to you?
'Gathering' - to collect or gather things, perhaps? You could look at gathering and clustering objects together if you like still life, or maybe looking at gathering lots of things together as clutter or mess and this becomes a concept about waste or unwanted items or clutter. Possibly objects that are personal to you.
You could maybe look at 'gatherings' in terms of fabrics and fabric manipulation - which could possibly lead you into looking at other types of textiles related art if that's what you're into.
Just to get you started - but you could have a go at some word association to help get some more ideas. I used to start with my theme title in the middle and basically surround it with associated words and see where it takes me.
Hope this helps. 🙂
Emily
Student Rep at BCU

did you get a booklet of ideas? idk if it was my teacher that made it but if not I'll tell u things
this themes actually so broad im doing it rn and i have a list of artists so its a pretty good theme to be fair
ill name the theme of their gathering and then the artist
if ur interested in people gatherings:
Mary kuper such as 'carnival Ladbroke grove' in 2017
Ethel Spowers has one called 'the joke'
Carlton Murrell has 'fun in the park'
if you're interested in photography Angèle Etoundi Essamba has a piece on braids which can be used as the gathering of hair it's called 'double dos' in 2002
you could do things such as an assembly,party,game,audience,concert,date etc
Human-made gatherings:
Giotto Stoppino has pictures of objects like chairs stacked and gatherings of other objects
Any object that is made in multiple parts like clothing, it's a gathering of ribbons,zips,buttons and bows
Paul Babb and Pamela Proctor made a dress together search 'twiggy wearing dolly dress with link ribbons February 17, 1967'
Alan Byrne has n art piece of 'coloured pencils in a jar' which is a gathering of objects
Andy Warhol has a screenprint of identical Coca Cola bottles
Graeme Harris has a piece on a gathering of cutlery
Environmental gatherings:
Cassio Vasconcellos has a photograph of cars parked in rows so a gathering of cars
The Roman amphitheatre in France is an example of a place people can gather (you could do about gladiators fighting)
our teacher even showed us that you can do about maps, it's an environmental gathering of houses she showed us the map of Manhattan
any architectural structure that is for events and meetings can be used
Tower blocks and hotels, linked houses
prison blocks, armies, hospital wards
natural world gatherings:
Chokha made a painting of a herd of cows being brought in
you could do any group of animals or insects such as a bee hive
bees swarm in a together to protect the queen bee
if you're interested in 3d design Mandalay made created a sculpture of two bees
sojung lim photographed a hydrangea which focuses on the gathering of petals to create the flower- you could do bouquets or a field of flowers etc
some of the ideas I've gotten so far are:
weddings
funerals
executions
war
bugs- specifically praying mantises when the female kills the male
moths around a lamp
political movements-protests
concerts
if u wanna talk more about it id lo
ve to cause i also need ideas 😽
my discord is bee_420 if u wanna add me

did you get a booklet of ideas? idk if it was my teacher that made it but if not I'll tell u things
this themes actually so broad im doing it rn and i have a list of artists so its a pretty good theme to be fair
ill name the theme of their gathering and then the artist
if ur interested in people gatherings:
Mary kuper such as 'carnival Ladbroke grove' in 2017
Ethel Spowers has one called 'the joke'
Carlton Murrell has 'fun in the park'
if you're interested in photography Angèle Etoundi Essamba has a piece on braids which can be used as the gathering of hair it's called 'double dos' in 2002
you could do things such as an assembly,party,game,audience,concert,date etc
Human-made gatherings:
Giotto Stoppino has pictures of objects like chairs stacked and gatherings of other objects
Any object that is made in multiple parts like clothing, it's a gathering of ribbons,zips,buttons and bows
Paul Babb and Pamela Proctor made a dress together search 'twiggy wearing dolly dress with link ribbons February 17, 1967'
Alan Byrne has n art piece of 'coloured pencils in a jar' which is a gathering of objects
Andy Warhol has a screenprint of identical Coca Cola bottles
Graeme Harris has a piece on a gathering of cutlery
Environmental gatherings:
Cassio Vasconcellos has a photograph of cars parked in rows so a gathering of cars
The Roman amphitheatre in France is an example of a place people can gather (you could do about gladiators fighting)
our teacher even showed us that you can do about maps, it's an environmental gathering of houses she showed us the map of Manhattan
any architectural structure that is for events and meetings can be used
Tower blocks and hotels, linked houses
prison blocks, armies, hospital wards
natural world gatherings:
Chokha made a painting of a herd of cows being brought in
you could do any group of animals or insects such as a bee hive
bees swarm in a together to protect the queen bee
if you're interested in 3d design Mandalay made created a sculpture of two bees
sojung lim photographed a hydrangea which focuses on the gathering of petals to create the flower- you could do bouquets or a field of flowers etc
some of the ideas I've gotten so far are:
weddings
funerals
executions
war
bugs- specifically praying mantises when the female kills the male
moths around a lamp
political movements-protests
concerts
if u wanna talk more about it id lo
ve to cause i also need ideas 😽
my discord is bee_420 if u wanna add me

If you guys didn't know already the theme for art Edexcel 2025 is gatherings.
Can we just brainstorm here because I'm so mad at this theme it's so bad 😭

If you guys didn't know already the theme for art Edexcel 2025 is gatherings.
Can we just brainstorm here because I'm so mad at this theme it's so bad 😭

I still haven't received the ideas booklet but I'll probably get it next week but my class brainstormed a lot too and we had a really big range of ideas (a little dark at times lol) but I can list the ones I remember:
Cults
Serial killers - was mainly about Dahmer and how he hoarded the bodies of his victims although it might be a little too dark lol
A detective's board- the stuff they gather as evidence all pinned up on a board
Courtrooms- there are so many gatherings here whether it be people, opinions, stories, clothing etc
Libraries
Animals
Social media/Netflix/YT
Ikea- just lots of furniture, fabrics and the fact that each display tells its own story and has its own personality
Family
Hoarding/collections
Music
I actually think this is a pretty good theme after a lot of thought but idm talking more about it and giving ideas for different mediums and media that can be used (seaoflillies is my discord)

If you guys didn't know already the theme for art Edexcel 2025 is gatherings.
Can we just brainstorm here because I'm so mad at this theme it's so bad 😭

i was looking for someone who actually does edexcel omd
i do graphic communication and im gonna make like a crime board (gathering of clues yk)
we made a mindmap as a class generating a bunch of ideas, i could send it over if you'd like?? x

did you get a booklet of ideas? idk if it was my teacher that made it but if not I'll tell u things
this themes actually so broad im doing it rn and i have a list of artists so its a pretty good theme to be fair
ill name the theme of their gathering and then the artist
if ur interested in people gatherings:
Mary kuper such as 'carnival Ladbroke grove' in 2017
Ethel Spowers has one called 'the joke'
Carlton Murrell has 'fun in the park'
if you're interested in photography Angèle Etoundi Essamba has a piece on braids which can be used as the gathering of hair it's called 'double dos' in 2002
you could do things such as an assembly,party,game,audience,concert,date etc
Human-made gatherings:
Giotto Stoppino has pictures of objects like chairs stacked and gatherings of other objects
Any object that is made in multiple parts like clothing, it's a gathering of ribbons,zips,buttons and bows
Paul Babb and Pamela Proctor made a dress together search 'twiggy wearing dolly dress with link ribbons February 17, 1967'
Alan Byrne has n art piece of 'coloured pencils in a jar' which is a gathering of objects
Andy Warhol has a screenprint of identical Coca Cola bottles
Graeme Harris has a piece on a gathering of cutlery
Environmental gatherings:
Cassio Vasconcellos has a photograph of cars parked in rows so a gathering of cars
The Roman amphitheatre in France is an example of a place people can gather (you could do about gladiators fighting)
our teacher even showed us that you can do about maps, it's an environmental gathering of houses she showed us the map of Manhattan
any architectural structure that is for events and meetings can be used
Tower blocks and hotels, linked houses
prison blocks, armies, hospital wards
natural world gatherings:
Chokha made a painting of a herd of cows being brought in
you could do any group of animals or insects such as a bee hive
bees swarm in a together to protect the queen bee
if you're interested in 3d design Mandalay made created a sculpture of two bees
sojung lim photographed a hydrangea which focuses on the gathering of petals to create the flower- you could do bouquets or a field of flowers etc
some of the ideas I've gotten so far are:
weddings
funerals
executions
war
bugs- specifically praying mantises when the female kills the male
moths around a lamp
political movements-protests
concerts
if u wanna talk more about it id lo
ve to cause i also need ideas 😽
my discord is bee_420 if u wanna add me

i was looking for someone who actually does edexcel omd
i do graphic communication and im gonna make like a crime board (gathering of clues yk)
we made a mindmap as a class generating a bunch of ideas, i could send it over if you'd like?? x

If you guys didn't know already the theme for art Edexcel 2025 is gatherings.
Can we just brainstorm here because I'm so mad at this theme it's so bad 😭

If you guys didn't know already the theme for art Edexcel 2025 is gatherings.
Can we just brainstorm here because I'm so mad at this theme it's so bad 😭

i just got this theme for gcse photography. I'm not gonna brain storm, im just gonna cry. Maybe photgraph the gathering of my tears.

hi, i've been looking up stuff on this topic too, haha, me and my friends were so disappointed in this theme, but i eventually found some things to put on my mind - map,
i written down things such as:
Collections (family heirlooms, figures, antiques, etc.)
buildings
celebrations (such as parties or weddings)
fruits / farming (gathering wheat and bunches of bananas)
flowers / plants (bouquets, petals, bunches on flowers)
crowds (protests, social crowds, audiences)
animals
meetings (online meetings, business meetings, etc)
school (school assemblies, classes)
vehicles (car parks, car repairments, mots)
that's a little bit of the main stuff i thought of! (i still don't like this theme lol)