9 large posters designed at the Print Shop in 1982 with Carola Adams and the Madeley Young Women’s Writing and Designing Group to express their thoughts on being young women.
The Some Girls posters project was set up in partnership with a UKYouth action research project funded by the Department for Education and Science. The research findings were to be delivered in an accessible and far-reaching way. The project was to work with girls between the ages of 12 and 15 seen by the DfES as “at risk”.
The research method was to use a youth work approach with young women and to record how they experienced their own lives in diaries, photographs and conversations with the project workers where no issue was shied away from.
The DfES funded project worker Carola Adams was based in Telford. She facilitated a weekly meeting of young women at the TCA Print Shop , the group being asked to identify key phrases and themes they found in the project documentation and in their own weekly discussions. This was so they could design a series of large posters, intended to be shared with audiences of young people, youth workers, other professionals, and the DfES.
The young women chose quotes and photographs from the project documentation which they felt made important points about being young and female. They decided a poster was finished when they all said “That’s true that is. That’s what we think”.
Eventually over 2,000 copies of 9 posters were printed and distributed nation-wide and seen by young women and men, youth workers, in colleges, schools, homes and even on TV.
The TCA worker on this project was Graham Peet.
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