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SOUTH WOODHAM FERRERS - MAY 2006
This was a great project, it happened in South Woodham, which is near Chelmsford in Essex.
I was contacted by Jackie Lane who works for Chelmsford borough council, she was part of a team of 'mostly volunteers’ who were fighting a losing battle against graffiti scrawls that kept appearing on a subway in Woodham.
We got our heads together and came up with a plan to decorate the subway with a huge spray paint mural. Once Jackie had sorted some funding out (most came from Network rail ‘who own the subway’ the rest from local community groups) we got started on sorting out who we were going to involve in the project.
Here is what the wall looked like when I first saw it........ |
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The Plan was to give everyone in the community the opportunity to contribute design ideas. We had a couple of press releases, flyers went out and we held a drop-in session at the library to gather ideas for the content of the mural from all across the community. Loads of great design ideas were submitted by young and old people from all across the community.
Whilst this was going on I was working with the year 9 students during their Art classes at the nearby William de ferras School. I worked with 10 of the year 9 classes alongside Miss Kirby and Mr. Long the art teachers. Together we introduced the project and worked in the classroom with over 220 students.
Here are some of the designs that we gathered and some I worked on developing.... |
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The year 9 students were briefed on the projects planned theme ‘the environment ‘ and set to work developing design ideas and learning about the culture, history and the themes that surround “spray-can-art “ over a 5 week period.
The nearby St Joseph's primary school submitted some designs that made it into the final mural.
60 of the year 9 students were chosen to work alongside Brave Arts whilst we applied the mural to the walls of the subway.
Here are some pictures that illustrate how we developed the designs and drawings into the paintings that made the final mural...... |
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The whole project from design to completion took just over 2 months to complete.
Respect & thanks goes out to every one that really helped and got involved with this great community project, special thanks to Jackie Lane, Mr. Long, Miss Kirby, the Rotary club, Jessie Leang Yes-B and Reakt and of course all the locals and students who helped us paint.
Here’s some action shots of us painting the subway mural.......
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| Pictures of the final mural.....
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| Project completed May 2006 - Brave Arts.
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