Installation Launch

Consumer Spirit - Life and Death of a Plastic Bag at St Luke's Church

This installation project will be launched on Thursday 12th December with a switching on of lights to bring the front of the church to life with light and colour. This is the culmination of a year of workshops and designwork to create plastic panels out of plastic shopping bags.

Working in collaboration with Urban Strawberry Lunch we have held workshops with homeless people, young people (NEETs) and members of the public. All the panels have been made in these workshops and represent a diverse group of local people and their stories.

Open Public Workshop at St Luke's "Bombed Out" Church

Making the recycled plastic "stained glass" panels

"Backstage" view of the installation

Concept Sketch for Consumer Spirit

This project has caught the imagination of many people and we would like to thank everyone who has been involved and helped to make this happen including though not limited to:

• The Arts Council England and 23 Foundation for funding

• Crisis and especially Annie MacLean for help with recruitment of perticipants and volunteers and running our initial workshops

• Becka Griffin for general support and advice on recruiting workshop participants

• Sam Kent, Lobster Productions Ltd, for creating the steel frame that supports the panels

• Spencer Lee Kelly for help with recruiting student volunteers from LJMU to facilitate workshops

• all the volunteers who have helped facilitate workshops, setting up equipment, helping prepare the church front to look good for the installation, especially Tesco

• News From Nowhere for providing us particularly good clear plastic