Ten schools were selected in the south of England to take part in the SEGRO Young Artists Programme 2009. I was selected to work with Year 8 pupils from Folkestone Academy to explore the theme of work. Taking our inspiration from the exquisite corpse parlour game and referencing surrealism we looked at how we could transform our ideas about work. Finding the careers guides and information lacking any interest for young people we decided together to make a visual response using both traditional and digital collage techniques, imagining what future jobs might be.
The work exhibited at the Royal society of Arts in London in June 2009 was three large digital prints and a digital screen with up to 100 images produced by the class. Folkestone Academy were one of four schools to have their work purchased by Segro for display in their Head Office.
