This is Northfield is a partnership programme funded by ACC Education and led by ACC Creative Learning. It delivered four artists’ residencies in 2023. Young people from Northfield Academy worked with artists to creative a positive portrayal of the school and its community.
AAGM was a lead partner in one of the residencies – What’s Your Treasure? – with Paper Houses Design aka Mhairi Allan.
What’s Your Treasure? invited Northfield pupils to offer new perspectives on artworks and objects in the Aberdeen Archives Gallery & Museums collection.
Working with Mhairi, pupils explored what’s inside Aberdeen Treasure Hub, selecting items from the collection to inspire artistic responses that brought together their ideas about place, community and ‘treasure’.
The residency culminated in an exhibition featuring objects selected by the pupils alongside their own works at the Treasure Hub in Northfield.
Image: Mhairi Allan works with Northfield Academy pupils in the Multi-Store at Aberdeen Treasure Hub. May 2023.
