life in pictures

This is cool. Action for Children, a charity supporting vulnerable children and young people, have come up with a set 150 artworks by celebrities about their life journeys. The contributors were asked to depict the start and end points of a transformational experience personal to them, with a single, unbroken line. (some of them do this, some don’t!). Ex-England defender Tony Adams points towards how he beat his drink problem, while TV’s Duncan Bannatyne maps the rise of his business empire.

It’s a great idea to use with young people and one which could work well in schools. Ask, for example, a young person to draw a transformational experience in their lives without taking the pencil off the page. Might be a useful tool for some older young people, especially when thinking about times of transition and moving on, as a lot of them will be at this time of the year, to college, university or work.

See the story on the BBC here, or see the whole collection of images and read about the fantastic work done by Action for Children here.