I’m looking forward to starting workshops next week, in six primary schools in Brixton, for Art on the Underground. Working with artist Meera Chauda and being inspired by the Brixton mural(s) located close to them, each school will design their own mural thinking about what they would choose to commemorate or celebrate about their locality and their own cultures. They will work with their classmates to produce a large collaborative mural design using drawing, painting and collage.

The project will culminate with a display of the six schools’ mural designs at project partner Brixton Library during autumn. This will coincide with the launch of a new artwork by Nigerian-born artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby, the first in a series of Art on the Underground commissions over two years on the billboard as you enter Brixton Tube Station, linking in with the 1980s Brixton murals in the locality.

For more about Art on the Underground and their 2018 programme visit here