practical work - final outcomes

here I have included all of the final posters from the classes run at Bankside Primary School as well as my final four protest posters final posters from the classes run at Bankside Primary School

my final four protest posters



I chose posters as both my personal outcome and as outcomes for the classes, not only as they were a feasible activity to achieve in the classes time frame but also because posters are one of the most efficient and highly used forms of protest art. Protest posters have been used as early as the time of the 16th century when the protestant reformation nailed posters of Luther’s 95 Theses on the church doors. They have been continually used as a ‘powerful form of protest and a symbol of discontent’ to this day. Unlike banners or graffiti they are easy to make multiples of and it is possible to spread hundreds quickly over a large area. The simple protest poster has shown itself to be a ‘powerful’ form of artwork with the ability to ‘amplify one’s voice in a community’.(source) I wanted my four final posters to focus on protest art through a positive lense and use visual devices that would appeal to children such a large range of bright colours, wonky and playful text and personification of letter forms. My personal final outcomes have been heavily inspired by the work made my the children and their approach to image making, working with children first hand really helped me to take a new viewpoint when approaching making work and made me push my own personal practice outside of its normal comfort zone. This has resulted in a more playful feel to my work, something I have been trying to capture for a long time which has only started to truly come to light in my work now after this first hand opportunity to study children's visual language.