Art and Design students at Carlisle College displayed outfits and art pieces from their course project "Blackout" at an exhibition that was open to the public.
The students designed clothes and sculptures showing the darker side of society. Course Leader Wendy Oxley explains: “The theme of blackout is that the country is in dire straits and students have chosen themes from political chaos to knife crime to show that life isn’t a fairy tale.”
Students, Tamar and Amber created works reacting to the themes of political instability and knife crime.
Tamar tackled the current political situation by combining the storms of last winter with the current political storms to create her work.
Amber’s piece (pictured, above) is in response to knife crime and represents the vicious cycle of violence found within knife crime, alongside people trapped in the cycle itself.
“It definitely makes a statement,” said Amber. “Art is a visual medium so it’s good to include a wider message behind it so that viewers can interpret it in different ways.”