About Celebrating Decorating
Celebrating Decorating was a six week project between service users and support workers from Westminster Learning Disability Partnership and artist Davina Drummond that took place at the ICA, Spring 2009.
Westminster Learning Disability Partnership adopts innovative approaches to providing services for people with learning disabilities and their family carers. Meeting once a week at the ICA Reading Room, the group was encouraged to explore the aesthetics of celebration and to investigate our choices of what we celebrate through a series of workshops.
Workshops were lead as practical sessions centralised around various aspects of celebrating: flowers, wrapping paper, ribbons and balloons. Participants were then given a selection of materials with which they could respond to; creating opportunities to learn from one another while enjoying the creative environment of the ICA.
One outcome of the workshops was a collaboratively designed sheet of wrapping paper that is available to purchase in the ICA shop, and can be downloaded.
“It was a great opportunity to be able to work with an artist taking part in new and interesting workshops. It was also a very welcome opportunity to be able to access the ICA gallery, as there are very few places in the community that cater to activities for adults with learning difficulties. The service users who attended this project clearly enjoyed the tasks they took part in. They also benefited from the social aspect of meeting new people and interacting with those involved in the project.”
Natalie Arif, Support Worker
Westminster Learning Disability Partnership