Work in Progress – Schools Projects for 1980-81 Cockpit Arts Workshop (1981)

Work in Progress

WORK IN PROGRESS

BY: DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL STUDIES, COCKPIT ARTS WORKSHOP                                                         

 DATE: 1981

SIZE: 75 Laminated panels 20″x30″

FUNDED: By the Department of Cultural Studies.

SYNOPSIS: Examples of the range of photographic and written work produced by students of the Schools Photography Project which ran in fourteen ILEA schools between 1979-1981. It was produced primarily for teachers and those interested in promoting photography in education to show the different approaches adopted by cultural studies workers in developing practical photography projects across the secondary curriculum.

The exhibition typically carried a lot of typed text which attempted to give some of the educational thinking behind each project. Exhibited at the Cockpit Gallery under the title of ‘Cultural Studies Open Week! it has never been shown again. A booklet was produced to coincide with the exhibition which was the Pilot report of the Schools Photography Project, entitled Youth, Class and Schooling.

IT WAS AVAILABLE FOR INSPECTION THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL STUDIES AND ON SLIDE THROUGH THE COCKPIT GALLERY

The original gallery publicity listed 75 panels. The exhibition held in 1981 had 92 panels which can be seen below.