In August I collaborated with Platform Arts, Urban Scale Interventions and Connswater shopping centre to co-facilitate a large-scale community drawing workshop on the roof of the centre’s multi-storey car park with the theme ‘every grain of sand’ referencing how each individual person is unique and has a valuable contribution to make. The drawing was part of ‘Rooftop Summer Recess,’ part of the Eastside Arts Festival 2021 in Belfast.

There was a great response from participants of all ages who used the cardboard stencils of shells and abstract shapes I had made as a starting point or added their own imaginative contributions. The experience makes me want to do more community art, feels that it was successful in encouraging people from diverse backgrounds to join in.