What exactly is a mural? Karen MacDougall’s event looks to explore this art form and the many reasons why they are constructed. Are they there just to liven up the landscape or do they explore hidden agendas, whether they be political or possibly social? By looking at scale and community, as well as the role of public artists, participants will produce individual proposals for a mural, for a wall near the shipyard in Barrow‐in‐Furness.
Barrow went from being a small 19th Century hamlet to the biggest iron and steel centre in the world in just 40 years,
with the 20th Century making it a major shipbuilding centre in the UK. Students set off by visiting Barrow-in-Furness, looking at its main landmarks, shipyards and the dock museum, learning about the history of Barrow along the way.
The workshop will continue as the students develop their own individual interpretations of a new place. Barrow want a mural that will justify all they have strived for as a community and so participants will need to think of ways of representing the pride and place attachment Barrow feels through public art.
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