This afternoon.
Harvey Norman, Carrickmines.
(Thanks Micky Mymo)
Tokyo-based artist Thomas Romain’s two sons like to create their own fantastical characters, to which dad then applies his own professional drawing skills, years of experience and superior collection of pens and inks – surpassing the original drawings in every way, creating valuable exposure for himself and exposing his hapless offspring as cack-handed amateurs.
Fairly sure that’s what’s going on here.
A serious message delivered straight to its target audience by the charming Pantasaurus and friends for a new NSPCC campaign animated by Aardman.
MORE: Why NSPCC is using a dancing dinosaur to teach children about sexual abuse (Creative Review)
Turkish jewellery company Tasarim Takarim converts kids’ drawings into silver and gold pendants, ornaments, bracelets and brooches.
Cheaper and more personal than bronzing their boots.
Innocent hostages. War zones.
A mural by artist Hyuro in Manchester (photographed by Henrik Haven) for the 2016 Cities Of Hope festival.
Children protesting at the Kinsale Road Direct Provision Centre in Cork in 2014
Further to the announcement that the weekly allowance to asylum seeker children is to be increased from €9.60 to €16.60…
The Irish Refugee Council writes:
[Junior Justice Minister Aodhán] Ó Ríordáin said yesterday the welfare of children was of paramount importance, and the obvious priority was on their wellbeing.
“Living a life in direct provision is no life for a child. Given our own history of child incarceration and institutions, this was an obvious focus,” he said.
So they double the allowance for children for the first time in 15 years and they continue to live their lives in institutions?
Asylum seeker child allowance to rise from €9.60 to €16.60 a week (Irish Times)
Previously: The Institutionalisation Of 1,818 Children In Ireland