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Published as part of the Hidden Kiosks Project.

The good news story of the students from Colchester Institute at the Hidden Kiosks continues to spread. We are very grateful to our friends from BBC Essex who came along to support the opening of the art exhibition on Monday, as well as writing this rather wonderful report about the project:

“Art students in Colchester have taken up a residency in a disused retail kiosk at the town’s bus station. Artwork by 27 young adults who attend Colchester Institute will be on display in the former newsagents for a week.

Their residency is part of the Hidden Kiosk Project, run by the Creative Coop, that has invited people to submit inventive uses for the empty spaces.”

As well as media interest from the BBC, we also welcomed our friends from The Gazette down to the Kiosks, to help celebrate the launch. This media initiative was all the work of the students at the Institute.

As part of the project, we mentored the students as to how best to manage the whole agenda. This included coming up with a successful strategy for self-promotion - something that they are clearly very good at judging by the flurry of local media interest!

Speaking to the BBC, course tutor Janet Hughes added:

“It’s made the students understand that if you want to achieve something you have to go out, you have to write to the Mayor, invite the press, do the artwork and that has been really beneficial.”

Don’t forget that you can enjoy the artwork of the students from Colchester Institute at the Hidden Kiosks until Friday 1st April. They would very much welcome any local support, and the chance to talk about and share their artwork.

Many thanks to BBC Essex for supporting our local project.