Project Art Works has received a significant award from the Camelot Foundation (£90,000) towards a new project - the Personal Profile Pilot which will take place between March 2005 and the autumn of 2007.

The project will facilitate creative collaborations between artists and 12 young people from Sussex and London during their transition from special school to adult care settings.

Artists will work with the young people and their families and carers, social workers and schools to create highly individual and poetic 'portraits' using a variety of audio and visual media. These personal portraits will give an insight into who they are and how they perceive the world.

The mixed media 'portraits' will be used to help facilitate the transition process and person centred planning, engaging the young people on their own terms through creativity.

The works created will be produced in accessible formats such as DVDs and/or CD ROMs and complement other information about the young person such as the statutory care assessment, 'passports' and records of achievement produced by schools.

The artworks and lessons of the project will be disseminated through the project publication and as part of a national exhibition and symposium currently being developed by Project Art Works called 'Flux 2007 - art and change in the lives of people with complex impairments'.

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