The aim of our group project is to go into our community and encourage people to have a go at drawing their alter egos, which will then appear on an online art gallery. Our goal isn’t to gather amazing art works, but to create connections with the people that occupy our local space, to remove the elitist attitudes towards artwork, and smash the idea that you have to be trained in order to participate in creative endeavours. We also want to generate a few minutes of fun.
As a group we were interested in 'outsider art'. Typically outsider artists have little or no contact with the mainstream art world or institutions. So it seemed obvious to set up workshops on the street, but also visit institutions that are normally hidden from the public gaze; old people's homes, prisons, mental health units.
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