Mile Cross Library Commission
GCSE Applied Arts, Blyth Jex High School.

Spring and Summer term 2008

Applied Arts students from Blyth Jex have taken up a challenging professional style commission to create a large wall based installation at Mile Cross Library and they've used it to complete a visual language unit of their GCSE.

The opportunity has enabled the students to think about important elements of the clients brief such as copy right issues, approval of library users. deadlines and managing a budget.

An initial session involving students, artists and library staff was held at the library to identify genres of literature and to exchange ideas, then the group explored the books on the shelves to source images that could visually symbolise those genres. Over the next six weeks each student created several designs and library staff selected those which best matched their brief. Under the artistic direction of the lead practitioner the students proceeded to use stencilling and spray painting to create striking individual artworks that will comprise the final peice.

The Mile Cross Library Commission is a Sure Futures Project,
www.sure_futures.co.uk

Sure Futures is funded by the East of England Development Agency (EEDA) Investing in Communities (IiC) programme.