The Growing Tree

Todays mission was to create a mural of a tree with some recycled wood pallets to be used as plant holders to go in the tree. This would add to the garden being created in front of the piece. Also included on the wall were 2 flowers made from recycled hubcaps which were painted by pupils from Thabisang Primary School in Orlando West, Soweto. We had 1 flower painted by children from Alaska Informal Settlement in Mamelodi East, South Africa.
These were then finished by our guest artist M.P. Chuka Umanna who added some finishing touches to the final design.
Our guest artists for painting the plant holders included locals and some friends from South Korea.Thanks to www.viva-sa.co.za , www.sixbrixton.org, and M.P Chuka Umanna.

 Our plant holders start like this

 Next add a base coat

 Artists work fast

 Now for the wall

 more detail

 steady hands

 The plant holders on the wall

 Pupils from Orlando West, Soweto

 The finished Hubcap design

 The hubcap from Mamelodi

 The design team

 Finished

 Guest artist M.P Chuka Umanna adds some detail

 The finished piece

 From Soweto to Brixton

 The finished plant holder

Streetshow has landed.

Thursday 22nd may 2014 was the setting for the third Streetshow at a new venue called Six Brixton. The show featured work by John, Risper, and Mary from Tumaini Senior School in Isiolo, Kenya and also Laurie and Venus from the Watch This Space project in Brixton.
Also a series of portraits taken of Tumaini students were created  and these were painted on the indoor walls.  We managed to find time to paint some old bins which turned into  plant pots and a very cool house designed by Rowena Folkes from www.smallworldurbanism.com
If you missed this one hold tight, we're having another on the 21st June so Watch this Space.

 Its gonna get UGLY!

 The day is set

 Tumaini inspired art

 Risper

 Fozia

 Susan

 Garden was busy

Rowena Folkes designed the house

Finished playhouse

Venus

Laurie

Fozia

Mary from Tumaini Senior school, Isiolo.