Yunique Tarbert art for our planet

Tarbert Academy S3 pupil Yunique Ogunshe is a COP26 Local Champion.

She has been working with a panel of young volunteers from Argyll and Bute to take forward the legacy of COP26, supported by Ann Kennovin and Jamie Titterton from the Argyll and Bute Community Learning Department Youth

Work Team and local climate change action group Time For Change.

Yunique is aware of all the fantastic work already going on in Tarbert Academy and the wider community in terms of recycling, local food projects and environmental awareness raising.

She has, however, devised a plan through which she hopes to engage even more young people in taking forward the ambitious targets set at the COP26 conference held last year in Glasgow.

As part of this, she invited individuals and families in Tarbert to create art from items they would otherwise throw away and to take the artwork, or photographs of it, to Tarbert Library for display during February.

To kick-start this, she organised an event for secondary pupils at Tarbert Academy after school on Thursday February 3.

The group chatted as they created and were shown the work of Andy Goldsworthy, whose ephemeral and minimalist pieces inspired them to see beauty and potential in objects that would normally be thrown away.