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The Media Workshop worked in partnership with the Friends of St James Park and Upper Shirley High School to create a large scale cut metal artwork for the new St James Park in Shirley, Southampton.

The project started with some inter-generational workshops with elderly members of the local community. Children from Upper Shirley High learnt oral history techniques and interviewed the older people about their memories of the park.  These memories were then used to develop ideas for the artwork. The Media Workshop ran photography and screen print workshops  at the school exploring the ideas which could be used for the final piece. Silhouettes were created which reflected the activities that have taken part in the park over time.

One particular story told by an elderly gentleman became very significant to the young people. Arthur House had met his sweetheart in the park (later to become his wife) at the age of 15. They would often meet and sit on a park bench. Later when Arthur was away during the war, his wife would go to the park and read his letters sat on their bench. When Arthur’s wife died, Arthur would often visit the park and sit on the bench reliving the memories of their happy life together. Arthur was therefore very sad when he visited the park and found the bench gone.

The students were particularly affected by this story and unbeknownst to Arthur decided to raise money within the school to have a bench in the new park dedicated to Arthur and Winnie (his wife) by means of a plaque. They were also very keen to have a bench portrayed in the in final art work.

The Media Workshop also spent a considerable amount of time consulting with the local community about their ideas for the artwork. Ideas included referencing the local flora and fauna, Victorian ironwork, Art Deco design and referring to the park’s past as a pasture land. All of which are included in the final design.

The final artwork was created using the waterjet cutting technique. A high powered stream of water is used to cut a silhouette out of 3mm aluminium sheets. Three large scale panels were cut, powder coated black and then placed together to form the final work which is now in place in the new park on the retaining wall of the zip wire.

The Media Workshop worked in partnership with the residents of the Kingsland estate in central Southampton and the Central Local Housing Office to develop and produce new identity signage for the estate.

Over the space of about a year we ran number of community consultations and workshops with local residents to create designs for the entrances to the estate, flat signs and artwork for the children’s playground.

The final designs reflect and reference the design style of the local architecture and the main entrance signs include an artistic impression of a map of the local area. Local residents helped to decide the important landmarks to be included. The children’s play area signs were developed during workshops in which local children had a chance to express what they liked best about the play park.

The final pieces were created using a waterjet cutting technique. Sheets of aluminium were cut using a high powered jet of water to create the resulting silhouette designs.

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In a project funded by PUSH Find Your Talent, we worked alongside Forest Forge Theatre Company to help young families create their own photographic story books inspired by Southampton’s heritage.

We worked with families who attend the SureStart centres in Millbrook and Weston and also those who attend a toddler group at the Hangar Farm Arts Centre in Totton. The project began with families being taken on trips to discover local heritage. We went to the Maritime Museum, Gods House Tower, Eling Tide Mill and Beaulieu Motor Museum.  On each visit everyone had the chance to participate in an educational workshop, followed by a picnic.

The visits provided inspiration for individual stories that the children and their parents created. Over a series of workshops using drama, photography and art all the families produced their own individual books to keep.

Friends and family were invited to the final session to hear the stories.

Ansel Adams
http://www.anseladams.com/
Robert Adams
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/A/adamsr/adamsr.html
Eugene Atget
http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Eugene-Atget.html
Lewis Baltz
http://photography-now.net/lewis_baltz/
Virginnia Beahan
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sart/faculty/beahan/ <http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Esart/faculty/beahan/
Thomas Joshua Cooper
http://www.inglebygallery.com/exhibition_detail.php?imageID=66&id=32
Roger Fenton
Fay Godwin
http://www.djclark.com/godwin/
Jitka Hanzklova
http://zoltanjokay.de/zoltanblog/2010/01/jitka-hanzlova-rokytnikjitka-hanzlova-rokytnik/
Andre Kertesz
http://www.masters-of-photography.com/K/kertesz/kertesz.html
Gustave Le Gray
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/s/gustave-le-grey-exhibition/
Timothy O’Sullivan
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAPosullivan.htm
John Pfahl
http://johnpfahl.com/
Sophie Ristelhueber
http://www.photonet.org.uk/index.php?pid=384
Stephen Shore
http://billcharles.com/catalog/stephen_shore/1/
Alfred Stieglitz
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/stgp/hd_stgp.htm

Portraiture:

Richard Avedon - http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=5145
Rineke Dijkstra - http://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/rineke-dijkstra/
Julia Margaret Cameron - http://www.dimbola.co.uk/
Nicholas Nixon - http://www.zabriskiegallery.com/Nixon/TBS/nixonimages.htm
Thomas Ruff - http://www.tate.org.uk/magazine/issue5/ruff.htm
August Sander - http://www.moma.org/collection/artist.php?artist_id=5145
Cindy Sherman - http://www.cindysherman.com/

Documentary:

Peter Henry Emerson - http://www.peterhenryemerson.co.uk/
Lee Friedlander - http://www.jameskelly.com/frid/frid.html
William Gedney - http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gedney/
Lewis Hine - http://www.morningsonmaplestreet.com/lewishine.html
Charles Negre
Jacob Riis
Clare Richardson - http://www.clarerichardson.com/
Paul Seawright - http://www.paulseawright.com/