On the 16th July 2013 the children from Ashburnham Community School were able to draw straight onto a 15m2 digital billboard overlooking their school via our bespoke Project Colour App, installed on iPads set up in their playground. Working together with the school teachers we encouraged them to have fun painting their version of the World’s End Estate and to understand that there was no right or wrong answer, that however they chose to express themselves creatively was beautiful. A collage of all their drawings was then exhibited on billboards across London. Photographs of their work in situ were then used to create posters for the school noticeboards and hallways with each child also receiving a poster of their individual artwork to take home.
The aim of Project Colour was to celebrate the creativity of children at Ashburnham Primary School. We hope that this experience will encourage them to continue using the iPads and the Project Colour app whilst inspiring their creativity in all its forms. Furthermore we hope that despite this project only directly involving a small number of children it can contribute to and raise awareness of the on-going debate around creative education and inspire others to support the cause.