Fantastic youth arts and heritage project
Traditional and new media artwork - created by 130 Swindon students as part of a project supported by a £25,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) Young Roots programme - goes on display on 10 February.
Four schools from the Swindon area have taken part in Back to Black and White, a youth arts and heritage initiative run in partnership with Swindon Youth Forum and Swindon Borough Council’s Culture Swindon team. Starting last year, Swindon Youth Forum members, aged 11-16, worked alongside digital artist Dani Landau.
Inspired by Swindon photographer Albert Beaney’s collection of 40,000 photographs of residents from the 1940s -70s, the young people took photos of people today, using images both past and present to curate their own exhibition, which over 1,000 people attended at Artsite. Culture Swindon’s digital media team Create Studios then rolled out the project to the four Swindon schools, who produced their own artworks and curated their own schools’ exhibitions. Find out more
