The News Pressed workshop with Featherstone High School for Artists In Residence.
Kate Lewis held a one day workshop in January 2020 for students at Featherstone High School, here are some of the students work expressing their thoughts and ideas.
Artists in Residence(A.I.R), a charity promoting the importance of art in education and inspiring young people to pursue careers in the Arts, by giving schools unparalleled access to time with leading artists.
A print of Broom donated to The Copenhagen Youth Project.
Broom
This piece was collaged from the front page of the Daily Mail, newspaper dates March 5th, 2019. It tells the story of the 27 under 19-year olds who had been murdered in the last 12 months by knife crime in the UK, listing all their names. Broom, (Cytisus scoparius) is a spiky shrub with bright yellow flowers. Kate collected this sprig of broom walking her dog Lily on Hampstead Heath.
Stephen Griffith director of the Copenhagen Youth Project, (CYP) visited Kate’s show at The Goldsmith Center in Farringdon and recognised one of their young people , Nedim Bilgin, 17, from C.Y.P who had been killed by knife crime, named in the piece. He asked to have a print to hang in their music space in remembrance of Nedim.
“ The print showed us how all the killings of young people are linked, how they were all entwined. Initially young people were only looking for their friend. Once they began to look closer and discovered their friends name 'the penny dropped', it was at that moment they realised how all those young people had a connection the names were no longer just names, their friend was no longer the only one that mattered and there were more links to the network. The lasting thoughts were about this wider impact, anyone who is linked to those young people from the primary school teachers who first introduced them to education to the guys who would have recently served them chicken in the local chicken shop and just how big this tangle can become.”.
-Stephen Griffith, Director of the Copenhagen Youth Project, Islington.
“Our mission is to engage and inform children and young people to provide them with choices supporting their individual learning and personal development.” C.Y.P.