Image and Identity

A national project involving museums and galleries working with schools, Looked After Children and Action for Children (formerly NCH) the children's charity.

Image & Identity textile postcard by young people at Broome House

Young people from Action for Children (formerly NCH) projects and Units for Looked After Children worked with artists to develop skills, knowledge and awareness of themselves and others through the theme of Image & Identity. The project worked 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 marked the 200th anniversary of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Act. At Manchester Art Gallery young people used collections to explore this theme and created their own textile and 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