Predetermined assessment criteria and target levels threaten to constrain and limit teachers' desire to provide a balanced and innovative curriculum for their pupils. Through the collaborative production of annual installations, the fine art department at Trinity Catholic School has attempted to confound the effects of a comprehensive school's limitations. These installations allow hundreds of participants of all ages to collaborate in a partnership ethos exploring contemporary issues and modes of practice and enable both pupils and teachers to engage with art as a creative process. The installation is used as a gallery resource center both in-house and by the local community. The recent installation entitled "Laboratories," analyzing links between art and science, becomes a case study to examine the avoidance of limitations imposed by exam-driven targets. Instead an environment was fostered that actively promoted a "learning for all" philosophy including teachers and mature students.