COLOURS OF FOREST GATE
The Project will deliver at least three murals in Forest Gate including at Wanstead Park Station Bridge aligned with an ambition to identify feasible sites for additional murals and work with local artists to develop them, highlighting the history and identity of Forest Gate to brighten and make the area more attractive to the locals and visitors.
The mural designs will be developed through a community co-design process including multiple in-person workshops and drop-in sessions as well as these online project pages here including the details of the project and providing residents with an opportunity to engage in the discussions online.
The project aims to address recommendations in Newham High Streets Strategy: ‘Colours of Forest Gate’, ‘Welcome to Forest Gate’ and ‘Bright Alleyways’.
The final mural designs will be developed through a community co-design process which will involve public consultation on the shortlisted mural proposals. The preferred option for each mural is to be revised to create final mural designs through collaboration between the local creative collaborators and the mural company.
Your opinion on the mural designs is important. Do you have any further ideas or want to comment on the proposed designs, please see the timeline at the bottom of the page for details on how to share your thoughts at each project stage.
If you have any queries about the project or wanted to get in touch more generally, please email NewhamHighStreets@newham.gov.uk
Phases
Artist Briefs, artist selection and design options
Following the final workshops we will upload summaries of the discussions. Please see attached the artist briefs below for your comments. Please download the document below and e-mail your comments about the site specific artist briefs to NewhamHighStreets@newham.gov.uk .
This period will see artist selection, refining the draft artist brief and meeting the key stakeholders to finalise the brief and the selection of the artists. Based on your comments the artist selection for each site and sub-commissioning / briefing will take place during this period and we will share the artist info here.
By the end of this phase the selected artists will create the design options with different colour palettes & compositions in line with the community co-created, key stakeholder-checked artist briefs.
These options will be displayed here in due course. Communities will be asked to select their preferred option and make any further comments online.
The preferred option (s) will be selected following LBN and Stakeholder sign-off.
Update on 03 November 2023: The artist selection by the communities for Fores has been completed. The final artist shortlist for the Forest Gate mural sites as follows:
- Andy MacManus
- Matilda White
- Bec Dennison
- Will Redgrove
- Matt Dosa
- Zabou
- Steph Martin
- Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa
- Phoebe Swan
- Barnie Art
The key Stakeholders will be consulted on the final selection of the artist (s) for each specific site also on the draft brief by door-knocking and mail-out. For example private property owners, residents or commercial unit leaseholders will be consulted on the final selection of the artists for the specific sites also on the draft brief shared here.