Visual Impairments
Portrait Series
Drawing | Printmaking | Etching
Self-initiated Brief:
To create a series of prints that can be displayed in the Royal National Collage for the Blind (RNC), to help visitors gain a better understanding of visual impairments.
Key Insights:
The Royal National College for the Blind is the UK's leading specialist college for providing further education to people with visual impairments.
In addition to being an educational facility, the college is also open to the public, offering a range of leisure and hospitality services.
However, many visitors to the college lack knowledge and understanding of visual impairments.
Outcome:
A series of portraits based on interviews conducted with three members of the college with different visual impairments: Lennie, Kerry, and Rich.
Lennie, Kerry, and Rich each had two portraits drawn: one depicting how I see them, and the other illustrating my interpretation of how they perceive themselves, based on their descriptions of their visual impairments during interviews.
This portrait series was displayed in the college to help visitors understand the differences in visual impairments and to promote inclusion and diversity through a better understanding.
The series was later shortlisted for the 2019 World Illustration Awards, as part of the research category.