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
Workshops for mural designs - Workshop 1
Workshops
Following the initial community workshop on 27th April and discussions with property owners the mural company will develop a brief for each mural based on the community workshops. These proposals would be reviewed and jointly shortlisted by the mural company and the council.
The first workshop to collaboratively develop the mural designs for each workshop will be held this Thursday 15 June at Forest Gate Youth Zone. (Please see BUD Studio's ad for the local creatives below). The second workshop is proposed to be focusing on common themes through canvas making workshop possibly with additional youth workshop. We are open to further ideas to create artist briefs for each site. Please e-mail us on
Selection of Artists
The mural company ran ‘call to artists’ to invite proposals from local creatives for mural designs with a deadline of 19 June. This currently being followed by the shortlisting of the artists. Workshop three will include selection of the successful artists mid July which will be finalised by the end of July 2023.
Workshop 2 (Thursday 15th June)
'Love Forest Gate? Love getting creative?
Join us for the first of four workshops for Colours of Forest Gate. Colours of Forest Gate Project will deliver several new, co-designed large-scale artworks in Forest Gate.
This workshop will act as an icebreaker for the community. We will discuss the project and discover any thoughts, feelings, or reservations.
15th June
18:30 - 20:00
Forest Gate Youth Zone
Address: 1 Woodford Rd, London E7 0DH
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