Totems finished!

Over the last 2 years artist Nicky Neate, has been involved in this community led art piece with a task of inscribing a message, poem or sentiment to the recycled totem beams that will surround the concave circle of the Plan an Gwarry, that will be located in the Market Square at Heartlands.

Through a series of interactive workshops with students from Pool Business and Enterprise College, year 9 students created their own graphics for an alphabet. This alphabet is unique to the location and site of Robinson's Shaft at Heartlands; the group picked letters from the alphabet and the students were then given the task of designing their own letter, using and being inspired by the discarded metal objects that were collected from the mine site.

The year 9 students then produced a poem using their alphabet which has been cut out of copper and steel plates and fixed on to the totem beams by Nicky.