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Exterior Exhibition on Myrtle Street

Getting the Community to notice…

MOWLL come to us with an idea for an exterior exhibition to go alongside a wall on a derelict building on Myrtle Street. They wanted us to incorporate the three themes, REGENRATION, INCLUSION and COMMUNITY into three boards where we could creatively express these and grab the attention of the people of Myrtle Street.

On our first board we wanted to represent community and inclusion, the idea of two completely different things coming together which would never normally, we thought could portray this really well. We decided upon the idea of a monkey and dove, two animals that you would never see so close is like the same idea of certain groups in the community which would never be seen, for example, the elderly and students.

first board

For the second board we thought of the idea of a quote to explain our thoughts on community and regeneration. “ARE WE NOT LIKE TWO VOLUMES OF ONE BOOK?”  portrays the idea that the community is the ‘book’ and two or more different groups of people within it are the ‘volumes’, and these are needed in order to make the community, or ‘book’, what it is. It also gives the impression of regeneration whereby the ‘volumes’ are like two periods of time, now and then, and the ‘book’ is the area and its history.

The third board was a photograph taken in Liverpool city centre of a man isolated from the rest of the community. This represents inclusion as it shows the complete opposite, exclusion, as he is not part of the area and everyone else in it. The people in the background are also staring at him which emphasises this point and the idea of people not coming together in the community.

The three boards being visible on Myrtle Street will hopefully show our representation of what the themes mean to us and find out the reaction from the rest of the community.

Images and words created by Diploma students at Liverpool Community College