West Berkshire Council - Graffiti project 'Dizzee' with success

Graffiti project 'Dizzee' with success A new West Berkshire man who has bagged an audition with rapper Dizzee Rascal's agent, says a graffiti course run by West Berkshire Council's Youth Service gave him the authority he required to form the approach

Released on 2 November 2010

Andy Scott, a student at Willink School, volunteered to have office in the project, based on graffiti art.

The new people chose the graffiti art they wanted to produce and put a project together, worked out costs and put in a bid to the Youth Opportunity Fund. Following the successful bid, the team then decided on a paper and contacted an artist to go with to acquire the artwork.

When it proved hard to get a desirable location for the artwork, the team, Andy, Jason Smith, Rossi Merri and Scott Roberts improvised by decorating a trailer used by the Youth Service Team for their mobile skate park and chose the theme 'Paint not Blood' to show the dangers of knife crime.

Andy Scott said,"The design really helped me gain trust in my own power and as a consequence I take an audition with the broker for Dizzee Rascal this month and if I'm successful it could be the part of a music career. I would not have had the assurance to do this if I had not been on the project. I really enjoyed the project. The young workers who ran it actually helped us and I intend to proceed to keep the Youth Service with any future projects."

Graham Pask, Chairman of West Berkshire Council presented the squad with certificates at a special presentation last month. He said, "The aim of the figure was for new people to search a medium they felt comfortable with and use this to gain trust and practical skills that would serve them in the man of employment. This seems to have been really successful."

He added, "The new people worked hard on all aspects of the project. The results are outstanding and leave be seen wherever the skatepark goes."