ARTiculate at Inside Out Project Claudy

This project aims to look at how community arts can promote peace and reconciliation and address the legacy of conflict in Northern Ireland.

The issues the young people have identified to explore through this project include rural isolation, cross-community interaction, employment opportunities for young people, community safety and youth provision and access to youth services. Through the programme we aim to increase youth engagement, heighten understanding of community issues, use interactive learning techniques through illustration and discussion, provide a joint community initiative which reduces the barriers that exist between both communities, to produce a tangible piece of work which illustrates the thoughts and fears of young people and to use art as a vehicle for communication and interaction.

The art form the project will use is comic book illustrations. The Verbal Art Centre’s Artist in residence, David Campbell, will lead this project. David specialises in comic book art. He has worked as a computer colourist producing fully rendered colour artwork for a range of Marvel, D.C Comics’ top titles such as Wolverine, X-Men, The Incredible Hulk and Superboy.

Stay posted to the Verbal Arts Centre website to see how this project progresses.