Image & Identity
A national project involving museums and galleries working with schools, Looked After Children and NCH, the children's charity.
Young people from NCH projects and Units for Looked After Children work with artists to develop skills, knowledge and awareness of themselves and others through the theme of Image & Identity. The project works to develop the confidence of staff in NCH and Social Services projects by acknowledging the value of using museums with young people.
Throughout 2007 and 2008, Image & Identity will be marking the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Act. At Manchester Art Gallery, young people will be using the collections to explore this theme and creating their own poetry based artworks.
Injustice
Young carers from Tameside and Trafford created Injustice a textile poem on the theme of Remembering Slavery.
Hears Our Voices
Young people from Broome House worked with poet Tony Curry and sound artist Antony Hall to create an audio work Hears Our Voices.
Project partners: V&A Museum, Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery; The Royal Pavilion, Libraries & Museums, Brighton & Hove; Manchester City Galleries; Tyne & Wear Museums and Sheffield Galleries & Museums Trust, NCH – the children’s charity
Funding: DCMS
Image © Harriet Clarke
