Poster Party

Our POSTER PARTY project focused on working with young people from military families and their connections to Fort George.  

Funded by Historic Environment Scotland and supported by Army Welfare Service Hub staff on Wimberley Way, Inverness. From March to May 2024, the project involved weekly screen-printing and paste-up sessions for young people (P4 to S6) facilitated by artists Cat Meighan and Richard Bracken.

After an initial research trip to Fort George at the end of 2023, Cat and Richard used the various recruitment posters on display at the Highlanders’ Museum as inspiration for the workshops.

The designs produced are influenced by text and imagery from these military posters along with the architecture of Fort George, which we visited with the young people during the Easter Holidays.  Elements from these sources were traced, photographed, copied or cut and playfully repurposed to sit alongside names, commands, personal qualities and shapes generated by the individuals in the group.  

Our prints were pasted up each week onto a large billboard outside the Welfare Hub before moving the finished piece to Fort George at the beginning of May for a family and friends showcase in the Grand Magazine.  

The billboard is now in our Carsegate space and we plan to do a follow up workshop with the group to create a new set of prints to capture the results of the project.