The hoarding that I am working on is part of Drawn Together – walls created in collaboration – and forms part of a series of on-going education projects at the South London Gallery, which will be included in the exhibition (with the theme of walls) that launches the gallery’s expanded building in late June.
For Drawn Together artists have worked collaboratively with local residents, children and young people, and with the education team itself to create works on walls, both on and offsite.
If Wishes Were Birds by Orly Orbach & Joanna Brinton and the residents of Sceaux Gardens is situated on a wall around a block of flats which recently was the site of a tragic fire in which six people died. Children and residents have created a series of ‘wishes’ which touch on this event and the future of their estate.
Matthew Shaw, current artist in residence at Sceaux Gardens has explored with children on the estate how children play with different types of materials, and how this might relate to contemporary art practice, in a work titled Ball Walls.
