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The artist’s project to photograph all of London’s year-3 schoolchildren is a beautiful way to involve people in art

I love primary schools, art galleries and London, so it’s not surprising that the news that artist Steve McQueen is leading a team photographing every year 3 class in the city, with the results exhibited in Tate Britain next autumn, filled me with cheer. Never mind that neither of my daughters, nor any of the London children I know best, is the right age – you have to have an eighth birthday between this month and August 2019.

Year 3 is the exact middle of primary school, if you count from reception to year 6. With all the capital’s 2,410 primaries invited to take part, not just parents but anyone with an interest in the city’s future will surely be intrigued by McQueen’s answer to what he called the “quite urgent” question of who, in the year of Brexit, we are.

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