Graphic Designer Jimmy Turrell hosts an Art Workshop for our Learners
Jimmy Turrell, a graphic designer who designs album covers, hosted an art workshop for our learners recently in Byker. The venture was even featured on ITV News.
(This venture was featured on ITV News recently and you can watch that segment via the video above)
Graphic designer Jimmy Turrell invited our learners for an art workshop in Byker. This was ahead of his art exhibition, ‘Hope As A Radical Act’. Jimmy is known for designing album covers through the art of collage, having recently worked with ACDC on their 50th Anniversary album. He therefore gave our students a brief of designing their own album covers through collages.
Our learners got to work, cutting up newspapers, magazines and getting creative with paint to depict the albums of their favourite musicians, who included Eminem, ACDC and Ariane Grande.
Once done, their collages were placed on the walls in their own mock exhibition before being taken home.
Through this art workshop, our learners have learned that becoming a graphic designer and breaking into the famous art world is possible for anyone. In addition, learned valuable lessons from Jimmy and were able to express their creativity.
Moved by the workshop, Jimmy has since donated some of the proceeds from his exhibition ‘Hope As A Radical Act’, and we thank him wholeheartedly for this and for the workshop itself.
You can see the learner’s beautiful work in the photos below: