Young Voices Influencing Care Studio Exhibition

Young Voices Influencing Care are showing their work at the Ferens Studio within Ferens Art Gallery on Wednesday 4 November. It's a studio exhibition, so you can just drop in whenever suits you during the day.

To get where this comes from, you need to know what YVIC is. It brings together looked-after young people from across Hull, with the whole point being that their voices and experiences actually shape the services and support they receive. The project took its lead from the Bright Spots Survey, a research tool that helps local councils hear from children and young people in care, and from the lived experiences of the young people themselves. From there, YVIC collaborated with the local artist collective Square Peg to create a series of multi-format artworks around the theme of trust in professionals. The idea is that by putting these perspectives on a wall, everyone — and especially professionals — can get a deeper understanding of how young people see things, reflect on it, and hopefully build stronger, more trusting relationships.

It's a local project with a very specific focus, and seeing it in a gallery gives those voices a proper space to be heard. The exhibition is held at Ferens Art Gallery, one of England's most important regional galleries, which houses works by Frans Hals and David Hockney and a permanent collection that runs from the medieval period to the present day. The studio exhibition is free and drop-in, so you can just pop in on Wednesday 4 November.