Arts Thread

By creatively visualising recent history, the aim of this publication is to enable you to reflect on events which have occurred and impacted individuals globally. In the hope that through open discussion, prompted by the created visuals, we are able to see and reflect on what has happened, and can then ignite a passion to promote change for a better future. This physical large format concertina, spanning 4 metres in length, and 60 centimetres in height, explores the last 25 years of recent history; 2000 - 2025. The scale of the piece hopefully reiterating the impact the last 25 years have had on everyone. Using a combination of manipulated letterpress type, scanned newspaper titles and images, found imagery, and physical drawn illustrations and textures, a visual style was developed which runs across the length of the piece. Spanning across each panelled year this style visualised the last quarter of a century. This, alongside the textual components of the piece, gives further context to each year. Hopefully, this projects enables the viewer to take one thing away with them... We must learn and reflect from this period, to look ahead, to take action, to ultimately make a world we are proud to be a part off.