The Overalls book
A creative tool for reflection and documentation
The project grew from an informal use of protective clothing – ordinary white overalls – by some participants in a2a sessions to record or collect images. The course tutors wanted to explore whether this impromptu activity could be developed into a useful reflective tool.
Overalls is an investigation into whether it is useful to note down ideas and experiences on our painting overalls when they happen. We used words and pictures to do this. We could then look at them another day, remember our thoughts and not lose our ideas and the things we had learnt. The people who did this alongside the lead artists were university students and artists with learning disabilities from the a2a course and the Rocket artists group.
Click here to watch a one minute section of the film.Click here to contact Alice and order a free copy of the Overalls book.
There have been several resource outcomes so far:
Overalls book
A 96 page book documenting the ten-week overalls project with full colour images.
Overalls film
A 15 minute film documenting the process of the overalls project with interviews with the participants by Alice Fox and Hipster Medium.
Overalls pocket guide
A multi-folded single-sheet of A4 paper designed to show ways of using overalls as a visual diary.
For more details on any of these resources contact Alice Fox
