The unveiling of the Mary Rose Braille Word Search which has been created in conjunction with visually impaired artist, Clarke Reynolds. Students from Craneswater Junior School and the Mary Rose Academy, along with visually impaired adults and the Mary Rose’s own staff and volunteers have participated in creating 100 tiles, each tile (or Braille cell) representing an individual’s emotional response to the Mary Rose and what it means to them.
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00:00Hi, I'm Dominic Jones, the Chief Executive of the Mary Rose Trust.
00:05It's fantastic to be here today to celebrate World Sight Loss Day, and also the day before
00:11the 42nd anniversary of the raising of the Mary Rose.
00:14Clark Reynolds has just done a project with the Mary Rose where he's done an amazing Braille
00:19world search, which is fantastic, but also what I'm really excited about is it's the
00:24first ever speed touch Braille door sign in a museum in the world ever.
00:31World exclusive.
00:32So there are lots of Braille signs in museums, often high up, but this is the world first
00:37Braille speed touch sign, and it's incredible.
00:40We've wanted to work for Clark for a long time, and now here we are with a world first.
00:45What does it mean to be the first to have the Braille within the Mary Rose?
00:50Since 1979, when the Mary Rose Trust was formed, we've always been about inclusivity
00:56and being for everyone, so it means so much to have the world's first Braille speed touch
01:02door sign on our toilets.
01:04The Mary Rose is for everyone, and we love this.
01:07Hi, my name's Clark Reynolds, and we're at the Mary Rose on World Sight Loss Day, launching
01:12another Braille world search, but most importantly, the first of its kind, large Braille toilet signs.
01:19Tell me what this means to you, Clark.
01:21It means a whole lot.
01:22I'm an impulsive lad.
01:23I do a big project in my home city, the stone show from my studio.
01:28It means so much to me, but more importantly, it's to work with the community, the visual
01:32ped children, all the different abilities to make this come together, and you saw the
01:37turnout today.
01:38It makes everyone feel like a child again, and that's what art is about.
01:41And tell me a little bit about the glasses that you're wearing.
01:44All these glasses, so a company has come all the way down from Edinburgh and Reading to
01:49give me these first ever AI glasses.
01:51I'm going to be an ambassador for them, but the idea is we're going to grow these glasses
01:55right at the start of it, the Edinburgh start of it, and the idea is they're going to give
01:59me like an AI working, so if I said to you, what do you look like, it would tell me, but
02:05it would tell me more information it gets, more detail I'm going to give it, so it's
02:09going to grow with me, and it's so exciting.
02:11They don't look like AI, they don't look just like some robot, they literally look like
02:16quite snazzy pittaget.
02:17Brilliant.
02:18So tell me about the people that were involved in the project here.
02:21Oh, so we had Craneswater Junior School, and they've got a group of visual ped children
02:25called the Meteorites.
02:26I worked with them a few times.
02:28We had the Mary Rose School, and with all different abilities, non-verbal, wheelchairs,
02:34the wide spectrum, that's what it is.
02:36It's about art, it's for everyone.
02:38And the staff, you know how hard it is to get adults to paint, but the staff came in
02:43all dressed up, and they were painting, some of them spent 40 minutes to an hour painting
02:48their own tile.
02:49It was amazing, and that's what art is about.
02:51It's about, not just for me, it's for everyone, and yeah, it's great.
02:56You can see the exuberance in my speech.