Culture Fund: Soulisquoy Printmakers

Soulisquoy Young Associates Lantern Project

The project has enabled three young people to form their own group within the organisation – Soulisquoy Young Associates – and to feel confident in developing new projects that reach out to other young people within Orkney.

The three young people taking the initiative in this project established a clear outcome of producing a set of individual lanterns. They developed a set of inter-connected workshops that involved papermaking, creating lino cuts, and then printing these onto their handmade paper. The final session saw the prints constructed into lanterns, which were then photographed. https://www.soulisquoy.co.uk/art-evolution-youth-project

The group are highly motivated and independent in their approach to recruiting and working with their peers. They saw this very much as a ‘pilot’ – an opportunity to test their organisational skills, as well as develop their printmaking skills.  They recruited a small group of a further 5 young people to participate in the project.  As an organisation we were able to provide the technical support as well as safeguarding for the sessions.

In recognition of their commitment and initiative we have now elected one of the Associates to our Board, where they will bring a greater strategic insight to developing projects for and with young people.