The Right to A Grand Day Out campaign banners for Yorkshire DEEP (dementia empowerment & engagement project) who are campaigning for better transport services for people with dementia

Abstract

I am the lead artist for a medical research project IDEAL (improving dementia experience and active living) led by the university of Exeter and I have been working with a number of dementia groups around the country. Together we have created a number of artistic outputs that can be used to raise the public awareness of some of the problems faced by people with dementia and we are currently producing a series of banners that highlight a few of these issues.
The banners are based on the design of traditional trade union/campaign banners and we have researched existing banners in the various group’s local museums or archives.
We have just completed our first banner “The right to a grand day” which is for the Yorkshire DEEP dementia group who have been campaigning for better services from public transport for people with dementia.
A collection of banners will be exhibited at a number of venues in 2019/20