Ann Henderson, Artist

"This project, Trading Places/CR.E.A.T.E., as managed by Kids' Own, focuses upon the linen industry and has already spanned two and a half years. I have had the luxury of working for this extended period with the same group of students… and with the same project teacher…. Over this period we developed remarkably intimate three-way communications which in turn enabled us to work together extremely successfully. Over time we had built things up layer upon layer, experience upon experience, dialogue upon dialogue. We were free to make use of any material or medium and nothing was beyond our consideration – we achieved a mutually rewarding plane of artistic understanding. It is just a pity that our project has to come to an end. But as Camin (one of the young artists) wonderfully conveyed in his drawing, the journey the students have embarked upon never finishes."

Ann Henderson, Artist