‘On Air’ was a BBC collaboration between All Souls Primary School, London and artists Tony Minnion of Cloth of Gold and Kevin Mathieson, Freelance Art & ICT Consultant.
Children in Year 5 (9-10 years) were asked to explore how broadcasting has changed since BBC Broadcasting House opened its doors in 1932, and to think about what broadcasting means to them now in their world and their times.
Pupils conjured up their reactions in a range of visual collages manipulated on a computer using Adobe PhotoShop Elements.
The result was an explosion of colour, shape and line - images of the building going through redevelopment and Eric Gill's famous statue of The Sower in the foyer of the building, combined with their own interpretation of the plethora of radio waves that now crisscross the airways and their physical responses and interpretation of it.
The finished children's collages were digitally combined by the artists into the one enormous integrated image which was then printed and hung on the outside of the BBC’s Broadcasting House in Central London in August and September 2004.
Measuring 22 meters high and 15 meters wide it is probably the largest pupil digital image ever made.
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