Off the Street Community Youth Initiative are working with Cornshell Community Network to create a spectacular artwork which will celebrate 28 iconic figures from Derry/Londonderry thanks to an £8,235 grant from the Big Lottery Fund and Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Culture for All programme. 33 groups across NI were awarded grants thanks to this scheme and the Cornshells Historical Culture Wall project has seen artist Sean O’Donnell working with 30 young people to create 28 storyboards of iconic figures from or linked to Derry/Londonderry which will be mounted on a wall in the Cornshell Fields housing estate.
The figures on the storyboards have been chosen by residents of the estate and include poet Seamus Heaney, Turner Prize nominated artist Willie Doherty, boxer John Duddy, the Undertones, singer Nadine Coyle and Amelia Earhart.
The artwork will be launched at a special event next month.
